Rhun ap Iorwerth: Alun Davies.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Wonderful. Thank you. Mike Hedges.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you for being succinct. Llyr Gruffydd.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you. I'm also pleased to see Members of the Youth Parliament here. You're always welcome. Now, we have many speakers to this item—more than we could usually allow in an hour debate, but let's try and get everyone in. So, please aim for four minutes rather than five, and we'll see how things go. Jayne Bryant.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you for a lively and respectful debate, with me taking the Chair for the first time. The proposal is to agree the motion. Does any Member object? [Objection.] There is an objection. And I will therefore defer voting until voting time.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: We'll move now to item 8, Finance Committee debate, the Welsh Government's spending priorities for 2023-24. I call on the Chair of the committee to move the motion. Peredur Owen Griffiths.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Will you take another intervention, from Huw Irranca-Davies?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: I call on Jane Dodds to reply to the debate.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: I call on the Minister for Social Justice, Jane Hutt.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: No, I'm afraid there's no time. We've allowed some interventions, but the clock is against us. Janet Finch-Saunders.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Could you draw your comments to a close, please? Diolch yn fawr iawn.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Will you take an intervention?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: If we can listen to the response. Diolch yn fawr iawn.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: I'm very pleased to hear that, and I do hope that Members here, in representing their constituents, will remind their health boards in their constituencies and regions that they have that discretion. I'm also pleased to hear the Minister mention long COVID and its impact on children particularly. I am concerned that there is a lack of support for children and young people with long COVID....
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you very much, Diprwy Lywydd. I want to focus on long COVID. Recent figures by the Office for National Statistics suggest that some 60,000 people in Wales could be living with long COVID, and the wave we're currently in makes me concerned that the numbers will increase. Now, many of those suffering are people who acquired the virus whilst working in health and care services. Since the...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: It's over four years now since storm Emma devastated the marina in Holyhead. The marina's owners did set about a plan to rebuild immediately, and although it was inevitable that that was going to take some time, the plans are being frustrated by the fact that there's another development that's long been in the pipeline for the waterfront in Holyhead that also includes plans for a marina. I...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: 8. What assessment has the Minister made of the importance of re-establishing a marina in Holyhead to the town's economy? OQ58343
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Rhun ap Iorwerth: Although we are doing our best for the people of Wales in this Senedd, the failure to integrate policy decisions and fiscal decisions at the highest level has prevented real transformational change. In the context of railways, transport may be devolved for Wales, but whilst Westminster still holds the power for rail infrastructure, we will continue to suffer underfunding of billions of...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you very much, Llywydd. There is so much that I could, and I do regularly, criticise the Government for. I take my role seriously as health and care spokesperson for my party, holding Government to account on the health service, and I will continue to do that until I see that the people of Wales are getting the health and care service that they deserve. But in the spirit of the end of...