Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Carwyn Jones.
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: 3. What action is the Welsh Government taking to help tackle the problem of climate change? OAQ(5)0030(FM)
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thank you for that response. It’s obvious that climate change is already having an impact on many of our communities, particularly in Mid and West Wales, with areas such as Powys and Talybont suffering from flooding. Would the First Minister agree that it would be of benefit to Wales to ensure that we respect European laws that demand that we have renewable energy and that we should adhere...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thank you, Presiding Officer. In over a week’s time, the people of Wales will have a huge responsibility: the responsibility of deciding what kind of future we want for our country. Do we want to live in an introverted, narrow country or live in an outward-looking nation that understands that if we want to have influence in the world we need to collaborate with our closest neighbours? This...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Can I intervene, sorry? If you’re talking about car components—and there are a lot of car components made in Wales—then that figure is actually 9.8 per cent, which is almost 10 per cent. That would make a lot of car component factories in Wales uncompetitive, which would mean jobs would be lost and that means there’d be less tax, less money to pay for our NHS and less money to pay for...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: I nominate Jenny Rathbone
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: I nominate David Rees.
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: 4. What use has the Welsh Government made of the European Investment Bank loans? OAQ(5)0004(FLG)
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thank you, Ysgrifennydd, for that. There are other projects, of course, that have been funded with European Investment Bank funding, including the Swansea campus, the A55 and, crucially, projects that are in the pipeline like the south Wales metro. Now, the European Union treaty is clear that members of the European Investment Bank must be members of the European Union. Nevertheless, the...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Many farmers in Pembrokeshire and elsewhere in Wales have already diversified into tourism. Given the vote taken on the referendum—and Paul has already mentioned the fact that there is so much uncertainty among farmers now—will the Welsh Government do more to promote tourism and to encourage more farmers to go down that particular route?
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: First Minister, as you’ll know, library services are a valued community asset, so much so that, in Narberth, and also in Newport in Pembrokeshire, local communities are working with Pembrokeshire County Council to keep libraries open as a community-managed resource in the face of Tory austerity cuts. Would you join me in thanking those volunteers for their efforts in supporting the...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thank you, Presiding Officer. May I congratulate the Minister on his appointment to this important portfolio? I want to concentrate on one particular issue and that is the issue of Welsh for adults. In 2014-15, £10 million was spent on teaching Welsh to adults. Some 14,000 people participated in that programme, which works out at around £700 per capita for those people participating in...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: I’d like to follow up the question that was asked by Rhun earlier, and that is: in the light of the decision in England to reject the contract by junior doctors, there could be a real impact in terms of morale in the NHS in England. I just wondered if you could tell us what you could do in addition to really attract, possibly, some of those people who are disillusioned with the system as it...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: 5. Will the Minister provide an update on paediatric services in west Wales? OAQ(5)0034(HWS)
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Cabinet Secretary, as you’ll be aware, the Hywel Dda health board is engaged with clinicians and patient groups to look at developing an enhanced patient pathway for paediatric services in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire by the end of the year. On a recent visit to Withybush and Glangwili, I was made aware of the reliance on doctors from outside the UK to ensure that we can fulfil the...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Will the Minister set out how the City Region approach is going to benefit areas in rural Mid and West Wales?
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Will the Minister outline what plans are being put in place to prepare for a rapidly ageing population?
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Over the summer, Newgale beach in Pembrokeshire was one of the first in Wales to participate in a campaign to tidy up our beaches. It asked people to join with this campaign to collect litter for just two minutes. I did this over the weekend in Whitesands. I would like to ask whether you’d be willing to applaud this campaign and whether you would also remind people that we wouldn’t need...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Well, Dai Lloyd has told us not to mourn the situation, but I have to say that I am still in mourning. I am still in mourning for those areas of rural Wales and our agricultural industry that now don’t know what their future holds. Rwy’n dal i alaru dros y bobl hynny yn y cymunedau tlotaf a fyddai wedi tybio bod yr arian hwnnw yn dod iddynt, ond sydd bellach heb unrhyw syniad a fydd yn...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Many speakers today have talked about the remarkable work carried out by health workers in Wales, and who hasn’t heard about the extreme sensitivity used by some of our palliative care nurses with people in their dying moments? Who hasn’t heard about those incredible stories of how surgeons have saved the lives of a dying child and how that’s transformed and given meaning back to the...
