Mick Antoniw: I think you heard my speech earlier when I said that I think the programme is now out of date and there should be a review of that programme before any further proposals are actually considered. I was absolutely clear in the things that I said earlier, which were things that I said very many years earlier when we effectively saved the accident and emergency in the Royal Glamorgan. But what...
Mick Antoniw: Will you take an intervention?
Mick Antoniw: It's really just to get clarity on this one point. Do you consider that the £4 billion that we've effectively lost since there's been a Tory Government has actually had an impact on the quality of services that we are able to provide within Wales, and indeed within England?
Mick Antoniw: Thank you for the minute. Music and dance enriches lives. It promotes peace and friendship around the world. I believe, with the cultural and musical assets that we have within Wales, our responsibility is to evangelise the world with Welsh culture and Welsh music. In this post-Brexit world that we're going to be in, I think never has there been more reason to actually do so: to engage, to...
Mick Antoniw: Will the Minister make a statement on Welsh Government oversight of Natural Resources Wales?
Mick Antoniw: First Minister, the Royal Glamorgan Hospital is in my constituency. In the Taff Ely area, there has been massive housing expansion and, over the course of the next decade or so, there is likely to be in the region of an extra 20,000 new homes. The demography has changed very significantly since the original south Wales programme. Do you agree with me that any clinical review of the provision...
Mick Antoniw: Trefnydd, there is significant concern in my constituency, and across the wider Valleys communities, about Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board's planned review of accident and emergency services at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. The review is predicated on the south Wales programme document, which is now six years old. That document does not reflect today's pressures on A&E services, nor does it...
Mick Antoniw: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. We considered this Order at our meeting on 27 January 2020, and subsequently reported one point to the Assembly under Standing Order 21.3. That reporting point noted that this Order was originally approved by the Assembly in Plenary on 26 November 2019, however, it could not be made as it did not contain a commencement provision, as the Minister has reported. I...
Mick Antoniw: Llywydd, the law consists of the rules of society that enable us to live, work and enjoy life together, and the principles that underpin our law are based on the values of our society and they are bound together in a legal framework, underpinned by what we call the rule of law. Today, I'm pleased to participate in this debate as the Chair of the first ever Welsh parliamentary committee...
Mick Antoniw: I think there is an argument that our justice system must be fit for purpose, and any society that does not have a fit justice system clearly is failing. That must be our priority, and it's why this report was commissioned and why its conclusions are so important. We need to look in particular into the operation of our existing Welsh tribunal system, the various Welsh ombudsmen and our...
Mick Antoniw: I wouldn't if I was you. I wouldn't.
Mick Antoniw: First Minister, one of the matters that you refer to in the report is the vibrant and resilient communities. And I would like to congratulate Welsh Government in respect of the transformation Welsh Government policies have had, working in partnership with Rhondda Cynon Taf council, in respect of Pontypridd. It is a town that has a buzz to it now as a result of funding from Welsh Government...
Mick Antoniw: Minister, in my constituency—I suppose I declare an interest, first of all, as a trustee of Eye to Eye, who provide some of the youth counselling service in my constituency—the work that is done is really in response to the fact that there are so many issues that are arising amongst young people. And the counselling service and the work that is done, I think, only re-emphasises to all of...
Mick Antoniw: Thank you, Llywydd. I move this amendment with the support of my colleagues Dawn Bowden, AM for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Vikki Howells, AM for Cynon Valley, and Huw Irranca-Davies, the Assembly Member for Ogmore. I'm pleased to have the support of the Royal Glamorgan Hospital trade unions, who are behind this amendment. Llywydd, Aneurin Bevan said that 'Society becomes more wholesome,...
Mick Antoniw: Will the Minister make a statement on the status of the South Wales Programme?
Mick Antoniw: Minister, I'm going to concentrate mainly on the disasters that hit Rhondda Cynon Taf, because of the focus and concentration of the deluge, but can I first of all thank you for coming to my constituency? Can I also thank the First Minister for coming and visiting in the immediate aftermath? Can I thank Jeremy Corbyn? Can I thank Adam Price, and the Prince of Wales, who also came to visit?...
Mick Antoniw: Minister, I just want to raise a few points with regard to your report and your references to the south-east Wales metro. As you know, in the Taff Ely area, there's been considerable economic regeneration from the development of the metro. That's had a massive impact on Pontypridd itself. But of course, it was only a few weeks ago that we saw all this publicity over an announcement by the...
Mick Antoniw: 2. What recent assessment has the Counsel General made of the impact on trade and customs arrangements in Wales following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU? OAQ55116
Mick Antoniw: You'll be aware that I've raised on a number of occasions concerns by the RMT trade union about the impact of potential customs arrangements and changes, particularly with regard to the impact on shipping, the impact on competition within shipping, the impact on the collective agreements that are currently held by trade unions to protect terms and conditions of employment, and also the...
Mick Antoniw: Minister, in view of the limited time, I'm just going to focus on a few questions and so on and issues that really arise as a result of this motion. The first one is that I think it would be very useful to have a public health analysis post these events, not just in respect of the psychological trauma that's been suffered, but we know that many people in the clearing of their homes have had...
