Mike Hedges: ...in the city region must be taken. And I’ll say it again, because I’ve said it a dozen times here now: Swansea and Neath Port Talbot look Janus-like. If it’s for fire, if it’s for the education consortium, we look to the west. If, however, it’s for policing or it’s for health, we look to the east. There is no coherence about it. It’s almost as if everybody who’s come along...
Llyr Gruffydd: ...and so on and so forth? Finally, as the clock is ticking, it’s not just Labour who are part of the administration that has come to an agreement. Unfortunately, the Cabinet Secretary for Education isn’t in her seat, but I would like to know what the view of the Welsh Liberal Democrats is on this issue. Are they, as Labour are, siding with the Conservatives and UKIP, or are they with the...
David Rees: ...group from the honorary consulate in Wales, to hear them highlight how they as a family, or their children, were actually still told to go home—and they were children going to a Welsh-medium school. It's a message I want to continue to relay during the months ahead of us. It's something I think every Member in this Chamber will want to join with me in relaying—that Wales will always be...
Andrew RT Davies: ...dealt with various flooding matters in communities from Roath Brook to Llanmaes and Llantwit Major, and Barry as well, and when you do start going into these maps—I like to think I'm a reasonably educated person, but even people in society, the general public, would struggle to understand exactly the demands that are placed on how decisions are made. So, any simplification of that has to...
Lesley Griffiths: ...something stronger. He treated everyone the same, whether it was a constituent who sought his advice, whether he was chatting to royalty at the opening of the National Assembly, speaking to Eton-educated UK Government Ministers, or the bloke sat next to him at the bar in Mischief’s. He was full of fun, and very mischievous at times, but he took his role as an elected representative very...
David Rees: ...identify the fact that we should attend a GP when we believe that something’s going wrong. And we often know it’s going wrong, but we just don’t want to admit it to ourselves. So, we must educate people better about taking the steps of self-awareness and screening processes, so we can actually do the early identification. Dirprwy Lywydd, progress is being made, but there’s much...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...workers who are in contact with COVID patients, and also I'd like a report specifically on the potential of introducing ultra-violet UVC light, which could be so useful in settings such as schools, for example, to disinfect. There are a number of other points and I will put them, as I say, in a letter to you. We need to know, for example, what steps will be taken to allow things such as...
Nick Ramsay: ...importance of the citizen being at the centre of the decision-making process, whether that be in relation to the health service or the care system, as has also been mentioned in today’s debate, schools, or whatever sphere it may be? Co-production, which is one of Mark Isherwood’s buzzwords and a current buzzword across the political spectrum—yes, it seems to me that the key tenets of...
Lesley Griffiths: ...15 is accompanied by a new flood map for planning that incorporates climate change. The new TAN 15, like our programme for government, is focused on the future. When we choose where new homes or schools or hospitals should be located, an area vulnerable to flooding, whether that's today or in 25 years' time, is not a sensible or sustainable choice. NRW have published a new 'check your...
Carl Sargeant: ...clear to me that traditional approaches to house building would be very unlikely to deliver the changes needed. A new, innovative approach was needed and the report I commissioned from the Welsh School of Architecture demonstrated that, although there is no silver bullet, there are many potential models and methods available. That’s why, in February of this year, I launched the...
Vaughan Gething: ...-patient appointments; the strengthening of regional partnership boards has positioned them to provide integrated health and social care responses to local communities; the establishment of Health Education and Improvement Wales is helping us to address the considerable workforce needs. I have also taken more difficult decisions so that we are ready to care for larger numbers of very...
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...the contract for difference, or what is commonly called the strike price. A cross-party show of unified support here today, added to the wider support from the business community, the higher education community, the sustainable energy sector and others, including that letter of over 100 cross-party MPs today, may just oil the lock and allow the key to turn a little easier and a lot sooner.
Ken Skates: ...to provide sufficient services and capacity within a reduced timetable to meet the travel needs of key workers and those with other essential travel needs, such as pupils and students returning to schools and colleges. In the longer term, while passenger demand remains at significantly reduced levels, we are likely to have to continue to make some difficult choices. Now, the operation of...
Vaughan Gething: ...there is the capacity to overfill across Wales by at least 24 places. I'm looking to reset our ambitions and our capacity to have GP training here in Wales, following advice we've had from Health Education and Improvement Wales, but I'm making a statement on that in the coming weeks, before summer recess.
Suzy Davies: .... Of course, it’s the BBC we want to scrutinise, not just BBC Wales. It is network that hasn’t reflected Wales to the rest of the UK—a fundamental failing in its public service purpose to educate, I think. Finally, on independence. Minister, you began with this. I’m the first to cringe at the mention of any kind of political interference on this, so I do need some help with section...
Suzy Davies: ...9 of 2014 social services and well-being Act—obviously, a different Act. At the moment, I understand that there are no codes under that Act. They haven't been issued. But, as we know with school standards and reorganisation, the existence and interpretation of codes have been material in supporting one party's position or another. So, I suppose my question is whether you are expecting...
Hannah Blythyn: ...the provisions. We believe that the legislative consent of the Senedd is required, as the majority of issues relating to support of the armed forces community in Wales are in the areas of health, education and housing that are in the scope of the Bill are within competence. I therefore believe it's right for Members to have a chance to debate this Bill and LCM and to have their say....
Mr Neil Hamilton: ...affirmative one. Well, I think this is an unfortunate way in which to proceed. But an essential knowledge of Britain's past, I think, is being replaced by politically correct topics in some of our educational institutions, and some of the most important influential historical events are ignored or downplayed—things like the English civil war, the industrial revolution, horrors of the...
Rebecca Evans: ...in Westminster to make this right. The Barnett formula was never designed for this; £600 million over 10 to 15 years is a huge amount of funding, and where will it come from? It will come from schools, it will come from hospitals, it will come from road maintenance and it will come from social housing. It doesn't come from thin air. I want to put on record and give a little bit of clarity...
Vaughan Gething: ...national unscheduled care board has been established and has reviewed workforce requirements for emergency medicine and further expansion of the consultant workforce, which is supported by Health Education and Improvement Wales. However, that in itself isn't an answer to all the concerns of Members and the public. The truth is that there are no quick or easy fixes. The Government will vote...
