Angela Burns: Thank you very much, Llywydd. Actually, Minister, you're quite right in some ways: you would expect that you wouldn't have to put on the Bill a protection about training. But unfortunately, we've done it because during the course of our negotiations, during Stages 1 and 2, and all our other meetings, which you've honestly and openly held with opposition spokespeople, you've watered down the...
Angela Burns: Formally, Llywydd.
Angela Burns: Formally, Llywydd.
Angela Burns: We supported this amendment when it was originally tabled by Helen Mary Jones at Stage 2, and we continue to support it.
Angela Burns: I do agree with you that you've got to have the right person in the right place doing the right job, and I also agree with you that the new chair of Betsi Cadwaladr has made some extraordinary changes and does appear to have the energy, the drive, the initiative and the experience to be able to lead that organisation forward. But the reality of the situation is that the ex-chief executive was...
Angela Burns: Diolch, Llywydd. I'd like to thank everyone who took part in today's debate, and I'd particularly like to thank David for drawing us all together, cross party, to make representations. I think we have to be crystal clear about that word 'cancer', it is something that still today strikes fear and panic in most people's hearts. We still see it as 'the big C', the thing that can come out and get...
Angela Burns: Will the Minister outline what the Welsh Government is doing to support people living with eating disorders?
Angela Burns: I'd like to just take a tiny liberty with this question, if I may, First Minister, and start off by extending my heartfelt thanks, and I'm sure the thanks of all of us, to our NHS and social care staff, who know that they're about to face the battle of their lives on our behalf, and they are doing so. And I am very grateful for all that they have done and will do. And, again, a slight...
Angela Burns: Thank you. I absolutely promise you I've got one area that I particularly want to talk to you about, which is business interruption insurance. I've been contacted by a significant number of businesses who are finding it very difficult to get insurers to do two things: (1) to understand that COVID-19 is a notifiable disease. Now, you and I know that under the Health Protection (Notification)...
Angela Burns: First Minister, I'd like to thank you for your statement today, and I'd like to join with you in sending my deepest condolences to the two families that have lost people in the recent moments. And I will also think that every time I get up, I'm going to be saying a massive thank you to the health services—we can't say it enough to the front-line staff and to the social care staff, but also...
Angela Burns: Now, I obviously listened to you very carefully during First Minister's questions. I wanted to first of all say that I absolutely support all of the actions that you've taken here, from suggesting that 70-year-olds must stay at home for self-isolation; what we need to do to keep ourselves safe; and how we look after people who've got compromised immune systems and are recovering from very...
Angela Burns: I'd like to remind everyone that this Bill did move at pace, and I'd like to put on record my thanks to all the committee clerks, to the officials on the Welsh Government side. And I'd like to pay particular tribute to our head of research, Georgina Webb, for all the work that she did on this Bill. And what a Bill. It started with such promise: to drive duty and candour through our healthcare...
Angela Burns: Oh, I beg your pardon—I'm so sorry. I will, but I just want to say this: the Bill, Deputy Presiding Officer, as it stands is a Bill of rights and not remedies; it's a Bill that hopes for quality and candour, but, in my view, it does not show true leadership on how to achieve it and it is a Bill in which the patient's voice can so easily be lost. And it's for these very reasons that the...
Angela Burns: 6. Will the Minister provide an update on the provision of ongoing training for teachers working in Wales? OAQ55270
Angela Burns: No, and I totally understand that. In fact, I thought about withdrawing this question; I've withdrawn other ones today because I think that the most important thing we've got going on at the moment is, obviously, coronavirus. But I kept this one on because I know that, as the recess develops and we go into the summer, you will be looking at the development of teachers September onwards, and...
Angela Burns: Diolch, Llywydd. Good afternoon, First Minister. I've just got a couple of quick questions to ask you on your statement. You of course talk about the Coronavirus Act and various Schedules to it being enacted, namely 8, 15, 10, various parts. Could you just enlighten us as to how you're disseminating that through local authorities and through other appropriate bodies and ensuring that the new...
Angela Burns: Minister, thank you for your statement. In fact, I think that's a very good reminder right at the end. On 1 March, who had any idea that we would be in the situation we are today? Therefore, I really want to add my thanks and my congratulations for the 7,000 additional NHS beds that have been created. I think that's outstanding work on behalf of or by the NHS and by all those partner...
Angela Burns: Good afternoon, Minister. Thank you very much indeed for your statement. I would like to start by thanking not just all our health services and our community services, but everybody who's helping Wales to try to contain and deal with this dreadful situation that we're in. I'd also like to express my condolences to all the people who have lost those that they have loved so much over these last...
Angela Burns: Minister, I'd just like to pick up on the question that David Melding asked you about testing and how we exit our lockdown. I understand that you haven't yet formulated all your plans and you need to work on them, and you want to put more meat on the bones, but I am concerned in respect of surveillance testing. You know the Welsh Conservatives have pushed for having a very clear departmental...
Angela Burns: Thank you for bringing forward these regulations; as you say, they're already in action. The Welsh Conservatives are going to be supporting them, but I do have a couple of questions, Minister, that I would like to ask you, about them as we go forward. We do welcome the part of the regulations that actually says that people must not leave, for any length of time, their home. In other words,...
