Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Would she join me in welcoming this week’s announcement that Hacer Developments intends to develop a large food park in Haverfordwest, which potentially could bring 1,000 jobs to the area?
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: The Government’s autumn statement demonstrated a very blasé attitude by the Tories towards an impending care crisis, and their failure to provide for our increasingly aging population means that there will be huge pressures now on the NHS. Will the First Minister make a commitment to work very closely with the Welsh Local Government Association to make sure that such a crisis does not...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: S4C makes a contribution, not just culturally to Wales but economically through the injection of over £81 million, and much of this money goes towards paying small media companies to feed the channel, as happened in Cardiff over many years. What we’ve seen is a very prosperous industry developing. Will the Cabinet Secretary explain how Welsh Government is going to ensure that the local...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: All around Wales there are care homes, hospital wards and communities where people live without creativity, inspiration or hope for the future. Reported levels of loneliness and mental health are spiralling. I was the former chair of Live Music Now in Wales, a role now undertaken by the former Presiding Officer, Rosemary Butler. This is a charity that sends and funds high-quality musicians to...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: When you have a country where 50 per cent of the population live within 25 miles of the English border, the matter of cross-border healthcare is an essential one. We can’t draw a neat line and insist that the population living on the border must trot off to be seen just by the Welsh NHS staff. It’s unrealistic, it’s impractical, but most of all, it simply wouldn’t suit many members of...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Will the First Minister outline how the Welsh Government is dealing with the adverse effects of alcohol abuse in Wales?
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: I thought that was a very moving introduction by Joyce Watson and I’d like to thank her very much, not just for that presentation but also for initiating this discussion today. I think loneliness is a curse, really, particularly for the old and that’s the point that I’d like to focus on because I think, with more people moving away from where they were brought up, they leave their...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Okay, just one more thing and that is to mention—
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: [Continues.]—the need, I think, to provide a long-term funding framework to help organisations that are taking pressure off the NHS and care services. I wonder if the Minister would consider better funding and a long-term funding framework rather than an ad hoc process that happens at the moment.
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Lywydd, over the past few months, I and Members of other parties, including Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Dafydd Wigley, Members of the Lib Dems and members of different cross-party groups have been doing what we can to correct the Wales Bill as it has gone through the House of Lords. I would like to pay tribute first of all to you, Llywydd, for your work on this Bill, and to the Constitutional and...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thank you very much. I think it is important, however, to underline that we failed to convince the Government to ensure that legislative and executive powers in all areas in the devolved settlement should be devolved. This Bill comes at a momentous time for our country—a time when our nation, our continent and the world seem more unpredictable than ever before. It’s far from ideal, but...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Will the First Minister provide an update on discussions between the Welsh and UK governments with regard to Brexit?
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: 4. Will the First Minister make a statement on the Welsh Government's economic development plans? OAQ(5)0423(FM)
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: The First Minister will be aware that, last week, I brought a group of individuals together who have a track record of delivery in rural Wales to make the case for developing a specific economic development strategy for rural Wales. While the city-region model is a model that may work for many parts of the country, does the First Minister agree that it’s not necessarily a model that is...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: I thank the Cabinet Secretary for his response and to Angela for bringing this case to our attention. It was disappointing to see this week that the creative industries sector panel had said that the development of Yr Egin would undermine a similar media hub in Swansea. But it’s come to my attention that, for example, the director of Telesgop, which is the largest media company operating...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Can I congratulate the First Minister on the White Paper and add that I will be supporting the motion today, although I lament the fact that there is no specific reference in it to maintaining EU social and environmental standards when we leave the EU? The Welsh public deserves assurances on matters that relate to workers’ rights and environmental protection, and it's a shame that that...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Let me tell you about bovine TB. Do you know where the compensation comes from to pay farmers on bovine TB? It comes from Europe. Are you promising to compensate for that as well? Come on. You’ve got to get real and understand that you made promises to those farmers that cannot be kept. Neithiwr yn San Steffan, gwrthododd y Llywodraeth hyd yn oed i gytuno i gynhyrchu adroddiad fyddai’n...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thank you. I will conclude there.
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Will the First Minister make a statement on support for businesses in Mid and West Wales?
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: 4. To what extent has the Welsh Government considered amending their rural development plan in light of Brexit? OAQ(5)0112(ERA)
