Angela Burns: Not moved.
Angela Burns: We will not be supporting amendment 6. We feel that the terminology is highly subjective and is unsuitable for the face of a Bill. The Cabinet Secretary did state at Stage 2 that the Welsh Government was already working with the Welsh Retail Consortium on this issue and was awaiting Wales-specific evidence to identify the impact this legislation will have on both public health and business...
Angela Burns: Thank you, Madam Presiding Officer. Cabinet Secretary, I'm completely underwhelmed by your response. In the years that I have been here as an Assembly Member, I had the pleasure of chairing the Finance Committee for a term. I've also sat on some of the very heavy-duty policy committees, namely education and health. And time and time and time and time and time again, I have found policies...
Angela Burns: Diolch, Madam Presiding Officer. I'd like to move amendment 2. We have a responsibility here, and our responsibility is not just to make law, but to make good law. And if you're going to make law, especially groundbreaking law, law that is not common in other home nations and not usually common, in fact, in Europe, then the least you can do when you've made that law is to make sure that you...
Angela Burns: I move.
Angela Burns: Thank you for the launch of amendment 4, and I have to say to the Plaid Cymru spokesman that your argument has actually persuaded us to shift our position on that and to support it. Initially, we were not going to because we believe that our amendment 1 is, in fact, broad enough to ensure that we encapsulate and protect public houses throughout the land. However, I think you make a very...
Angela Burns: Minister, I'd like to thank you very much for bringing forward this statement, and actually I want to pick up on one of the comments you made in here above all else probably: 'More people are living longer. This is one of our society’s greatest achievements, and a cause for celebration'. I'm so glad to hear those words, because so very often we talk in a pejorative way about older...
Angela Burns: First Minister, for my part, I'm quite relaxed about this, because there were 19 experts involved in this process on behalf of NRW, starting from the economist, senior statistician, wildlife management, their ornithologist, woodland and spatial ecologists, recreation, health and well-being team leader—. I won't read out all 19. Where I do have a real concern is that I believe that...
Angela Burns: Leader of the house, I have raised my concerns over the future of west Wales health services on numerous occasions in this Chamber. For my pains, I've been accused by members of the Government and backbenchers of scaremongering, talking down the health services and harming staff recruitment—all by myself, I've harmed staff recruitment. The current Cabinet Secretary approached the Welsh...
Angela Burns: Ffrind i Mi is, indeed, an excellent innovation, First Minister. In fact, next month, you will be paying tribute to, and recognising the work of, Mary Adams, who's a constituent of mine in west Wales, for the work that she undertakes through the Rotary-backed RotaKids project. RotaKids spends time with people with dementia, with people suffering from loneliness and who feel very, very...
Angela Burns: Would you take an intervention, Minister?
Angela Burns: You talk about saving lives, and you're absolutely right, that's very important, but, actually, the thing about sepsis is the destruction it causes to the people who do survive it. So, if you can get into a hospital quicker, then you are less likely to lose your limbs, you're less likely to have your brain basically scrambled by the sepsis, you're less likely to be left with debilitating...
Angela Burns: Gemma Ellis, who is the lead sepsis nurse for the University Hospital of Wales and manages their outreach team would tell you that there are two issues here: post-sepsis syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder. We probably all have an understanding of PTSD, but post-sepsis syndrome is a condition that affects up to 50 per cent of sepsis survivors. They are left with physical and/or...
Angela Burns: Rachel was taken down for surgery, but, after just a few hours, doctors told them that she would also have to lose her left arm. The family struggled to process all this awful information; they were told to think on it overnight. However, the next morning, the doctors told them that the decision was no longer theirs to make. They said that Rachel would also lose part of her face, that her...
Angela Burns: Diolch, Presiding Officer. I'm going to talk at great speed because I have also promised to give a minute to Julie Morgan, to Janet Finch-Saunders and to Suzy Davies, and I have a lot to say on this subject. It was a bank holiday weekend less than a year ago when Rachel knocked on her flatmate's bedroom door in the early hours of the morning and asked her to take her to hospital because she...
Angela Burns: Leader of the house, I do appreciate the answer that you've just given to Simon Thomas, but, of course, the reality is that in great chunks of mid and west Wales, there are areas where people do not have access to either broadband or mobile. To be fair, I absolutely recognise your commitment to sorting this out, and I know that you've taken on literally probably almost 100 of my...
Angela Burns: Will the Cabinet Secretary outline the Welsh Government's proposals to alter tax rates in Wales?
Angela Burns: I'd like to thank the Cabinet Secretary for his statement today. There is much to be welcomed in this statement. I was particularly pleased to see the reduction in teenage pregnancies because, of course, as we know, that can have significant long-term life barriers sometimes for young women who get pregnant at too early an age. So, that's really, really welcome. I was also very pleased to...
Angela Burns: Thank you. My point, Presiding Officer, is a local journalist can do an FOI on the health board and get the exact same information that I put a subject access request into your Government for at the end of January, and I still have absolutely nothing. So, an Assembly Member can't get their information from you, a journo can from the health board. Your Government is not transparent, is not...
Angela Burns: As a result of your altercation with Adam Price during FMQs on 30 January, I realised that if your Government was seeking correspondence details between Adam Price and Hywel Dda university health board, then you may have asked the same questions about me. Indeed, for all I know, you may be collating information about all opposition Members' correspondence with public sector bodies. And so, I...
