Mr Neil Hamilton: In the words of Simon Coveney, and they're on the screen here, 'We do recognise the reality that Ireland will have a responsibility to protect its own place in the...single market and that will involve some checks. But I can assure you that we will try to do that in a way that limits the risk, and we will try and do it...away from the border.' He is the Irish foreign Minister, and that is the...
Mr Neil Hamilton: Well, blessed are those who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed, and I didn't expect to hear any new arguments today from the 'remain' fanatics who have given rise to the debate. We had an eloquent threnody from David Melding, which I found very effecting and an interesting constitutional disquisition from Hefin David. But otherwise, we've gone around the same course that we...
Mr Neil Hamilton: I thank the Minister for that reply, and I strongly support the Welsh Government's policy of using pharmacists more to supplement primary care, but I've had two cases from Dwyfor Meirionnydd in my region of patients who left a medicines use review with the pharmacist under the false belief that they'd been asked to modify their medicine regimes. The source of the confusion wasn't exactly...
Mr Neil Hamilton: 2. Will the Minister provide an update on recent efforts to supplement primary care with support from pharmacies? OAQ54167
Mr Neil Hamilton: Well, last time, the PISA results in Wales were worse than any other part of the United Kingdom, and that was the fourth time in succession that that dismal position was reached. The results will be out later in the year. Will the First Minister join me in confidently predicting that nothing much has changed? Last week, Lee Waters, in a moment of refreshing candour, said that the Labour...
Mr Neil Hamilton: 1. Will the First Minister provide an update on the Welsh Government's response to the latest published PISA results? OAQ54169
Mr Neil Hamilton: Would the Minister agree with me that this decision is a complete breach of faith by the BBC? On its own website on 6 July 2015, referring to a deal the BBC had made with the Government in the run-up to the renewal of the BBC charter in 2017, it said that the BBC would, 'cover the cost of providing free television licences for over-75s', in return for the licence fee rising in line with...
Mr Neil Hamilton: Can I thank the Counsel General for that reply? In the course of the last three years, he's moved from a position of saying that he respected the result of the referendum now to giving a full-throated clarion call to reversing it. Can I suggest to him, therefore, the sort of question he would like to see on the ballot paper is, 'Do you want to remain in the EU or do you want to stay in the...
Mr Neil Hamilton: 5. What discussions has the Counsel General held on the question to be asked in the event of a second referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union? OAQ54003
Mr Neil Hamilton: What action has the Welsh Government taken in south Wales in response to the declared climate emergency?
Mr Neil Hamilton: I thank the Minister for that reply, and I'm sure she'll agree with me that it is important that we conclude a successor agreement to the EU agreement as soon as possible when we leave. She said earlier in response to Darren Millar that it's easier to create a trade deal when you've got 450 million people than it is with 50 million. I'm not sure there's any historical evidence to justify that...
Mr Neil Hamilton: 7. What assessment has the Minister made of the impact of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and Japan on Wales? OAQ53892
Mr Neil Hamilton: Yes, and it's a fact, and this is what one has to recognise. India and China between them are responsible for 36 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions. And, in China, there was a 4.7 per cent increase in carbon dioxide emissions and in India, 6.7 per cent increase in emissions. Whatever we do in this country is going to be swamped by the reality of what is happening in the far east. You...
Mr Neil Hamilton: I can't, I'm afraid. I've only got less than a minute left. But—
Mr Neil Hamilton: Afterwards, please. [Laughter.]
Mr Neil Hamilton: I'd be very happy to go through it with you. Of course, the biggest threat to the world if you believe the warmists' predictions, of course, is the rise of population, because the world population in 1800 was 1 billion, and in 2019, it's nearly 8 billion and it's forecast to be 8.5 billion by 2030. And most of this increase will take place in rapidly industrialising countries, and we all know...
Mr Neil Hamilton: Well, I've only got four minutes, so I don't think I can, thank you. In the same conference, Paul Ehrlich, a renowned doomster on population, said that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the great die-off, and 50 years later, he's still at it. In The Guardian on 22 March this year, he's now saying, 'A shattering collapse of...
Mr Neil Hamilton: Well, I hope I can cheer everybody up with my little speech because the motion starts with one of the most spectacularly silly statements you could imagine: that the world's scientific community says that there are just 12 years left to prevent 1.5 degrees of warming. I'm old enough to remember the invention of the environment as a political issue at the end of the 1960s, and indeed the very...
Mr Neil Hamilton: Well, better late than never, I certainly acknowledge that, but there is still a very long way to go. The Minister will know that the Public Accounts Committee has been taking an interest in this area, and recently we took evidence form Aneurin Bevan health board, which noted the need for improvement on its current 62 per cent performance of risk 1 patients being seen by the target date or...
Mr Neil Hamilton: Diolch, Llywydd. The Minister will know that in the years 2017-18, 100,000 ophthalmology patients' appointments were cancelled, often at very short notice, and that figure was a rise of 5.5 per cent on two years before. Those who have been waiting for twice as long as they should for a follow-up appointment were 35,000 in December 2018, up from 15,000 in April 2015. The latest figures that I...
