Joyce Watson: So, it's not a step too far. I will, yes.
Joyce Watson: I will be voting in support of introducing the COVID pass, and I want to repeat that: it is a COVID pass. It isn't a vaccination certificate, it isn't any of these elaborate names that it's been given today, and it's almost like, somehow, we've been talking about something that doesn't exist and that's the truth. I don't, however, dismiss the unease that some people feel about the civil...
Joyce Watson: I think it’s important to note that take-up across all demographic groups remains incredibly high, despite anti-vaxxers making a lot of noise, but remaining in a tiny minority. But we need to move on. We’ve seen lots of good work, as you say, in terms of reaching out to more vaccine-hesitant communities. So, how is that learning now informing the roll-out to the 12 to 15-year-olds?...
Joyce Watson: 7. What is the Welsh Government doing to encourage coronavirus vaccine take-up? OQ56978
Joyce Watson: Thank you, Minister, and I thank you, Llywydd, for accepting my question. As you noted in your written statement yesterday, Minister, it is with great sadness that you should have to issue another statement because another young woman has lost her life. Her name is Sabina Nessa, and we all must remember and say her name. Women and girls don't feel safe in public places. Public sexual...
Joyce Watson: Thank you, Minister. One of the frustrations many parents have raised with regard to children and young people's mental health is accessing the right service, and that was highlighted in the Children's Commissioner for Wales report, 'No Wrong Door'. And it found that many children, young people and their families looking for support for a number of issues, including mental health, found the...
Joyce Watson: Minister, I'd like to highlight the £68 million investment that Welsh Government has made into the primary and community health services in Hywel Dda health board area in recent years, and also highlight that the integrated care centres in Aberaeron, Cardigan, Fishguard, Cross Hands, Machynlleth and Llanfair Caereinion are welcomed very much by the local community, and they've received...
Joyce Watson: Minister, I'd like to welcome the £5 million investment from the Welsh Government's European agricultural fund for rural development for a milk bottling centre in my home town of Haverfordwest. Once completed, that will have the capacity to bottle milk that is produced in Wales and that will be the first facility in Wales to offer this to a British Retail Consortium standard. Minister, do...
Joyce Watson: 7. What action is the Welsh Government taking to support children and young people's mental health? OQ56911
Joyce Watson: 2. What is the Welsh Government doing to address women's safety in public places? TQ568
Joyce Watson: I wish I shared that enthusiasm, but I don’t. I know it’s very damp outside and I don’t want to bring a dampener into this realm, but anyway, as a member of consecutive Senedd environment committees, I’ve been across scrutiny of the Bill and it has been hugely delayed. I don't want to repeat the points that both Llyr and Huw Irranca have made, but I do want to repeat what we wrote in...
Joyce Watson: Thank you for that. It's bad enough that this is an enforced tax rise on working people in Wales, but it mustn't be a financial and administrative burden on our public services as well. So, what discussions has your administration had with the Westminster Government to ensure that the Welsh public sector employers are fully compensated and supported to pay for and administer the incoming tax...
Joyce Watson: 7. What assessment has the Welsh Government undertaken of the impact of the planned national insurance rises on the public sector in Wales? OQ56934
Joyce Watson: You make a really important point. Of course, one of the other issues for people with dementia is finding a quiet room. We have made sure that those quiet rooms and calming spaces are here to help enable people to de-stress. As I said, the public-facing staff are trained so they are able to help deal with any issues that come forward. The Commission has also marked Dementia Action Week as an...
Joyce Watson: I thank you for that question. In 2015, the Assembly committed to becoming a dementia-friendly organisation. In line with that commitment, the Commission continues to work closely with Alzheimer’s Society Cymru’s dementia-friendly team and has delivered Dementia Friends training and awareness sessions for Members, their staff, Commission staff, and particularly for public-facing staff and...
Joyce Watson: Thank you. Now it's Rhys ab Owen for Plaid Cymru.
Joyce Watson: Thank you, Minister. We now move to Mark Isherwood to speak on behalf of the Conservatives.
Joyce Watson: Right. That brings that item to a conclusion. Thank you, Minister.
Joyce Watson: We now move on to item 5, the statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution—codes of Welsh law: a programme to improve the accessibility of Welsh law. Mick Antoniw.
Joyce Watson: And finally, Janet Finch-Saunders.
