Janet Finch-Saunders: —a brutal trade in designer dog looks. What steps can you commit to undertaking, working with your counterparts in the UK Government, to ensure that social media networks are playing their role in enforcing lawful sales and that this isn't a route to see puppies rehomed in not the most appropriate manner?
Janet Finch-Saunders: Minister, I've raised this with you a number of times now—certainly, during the fifth term—but I remain increasingly concerned about the number of videos and photos that are being posted on Facebook and other social media sites adorned with marketing prose such as 'one puppy left'. Indeed, I'm actually on Facebook now reading, 'Can anyone help me find a home for this little puppy? Oh,...
Janet Finch-Saunders: On a brighter note, I welcome both the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill and the LCM. Minister, over 1 million households in the UK are sold as leasehold, and this legislation will go some way—in fact, a long way—to help thousands of home owners caught in a leasehold trap. And I can say first-hand, having seen some of my residents, who put their name down for a lovely property, then...
Janet Finch-Saunders: Thank you, Minister, for this statement. I think we've all spoken at length about this shocking crisis facing the householders who are now beset with the problems of this cladding. So, I would like to join with you in echoing that the developers and those responsible for these building defects, they've got to step up to resolve this crisis. And if any of them are watching here today, the onus...
Janet Finch-Saunders: Thank you. Of course, you know that tourism is the backbone of the economy in Aberconwy, as it is in other constituencies. The queen of Welsh resorts, Llandudno, also has the potential—and this is according to a recent report I've been reading—to see the number of day visitors increase from 2.88 million in 2018 to 4.8 million in 2045, overnight trips increase by 120,000, and the economic...
Janet Finch-Saunders: 4. Will the First Minister make a statement on the impact of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 on hospitality businesses in Wales? OQ57352
Janet Finch-Saunders: Population growth.
Janet Finch-Saunders: The harrowing testimony of overworked front-line staff in this report and some of the scandalous content should give all officials and Government Ministers pause for thought. It is plainly unacceptable that a report of this importance, formed from 700 pages of testimony, provided by 45 members of staff, was kept out of the public domain for so long. Now, during a meeting with the chairman...
Janet Finch-Saunders: I'd like to thank those who've brought this petition forward, and I want to put on record my thanks, really, to my colleague Darren Millar who has been a sterling champion of the red squirrels. It's important that we, as champions—I know Mark Isherwood recently has been acknowledged for the work he does on curlews—it's important that we take our role seriously and, for the record, I am...
Janet Finch-Saunders: Minister, it is abundantly clear from your responses that, alongside failing to facilitate a much needed house building boom in Wales, you are actively supporting guidance that is holding the sector back. The urgent need to see more new homes delivered is clear when considering the financial black hole that is the temporary home crisis facing our local authorities. I've written to 22 local...
Janet Finch-Saunders: Thank you. Minister, on the one hand, you see yourself capable of going into competition with some of our finest builders using taxpayers' money, but, on the other hand, you are actually holding back on the number of homes that we are able to build due to your own or NRW's phosphate guidance. Attendees at the phosphate stakeholders group that I chair made clear that NRW are essentially...
Janet Finch-Saunders: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Good afternoon, Minister. Now, in a recent virtual round-table I held with Propertymark, it was predicted that there's going to be a huge increase in people looking for rental properties. And I would like to refer Members and members of the public to my own register of interests. This is causing immense pressure for front-line staff in the sales and letting sector,...
Janet Finch-Saunders: First Minister, just this weekend, towns and communities across north Wales, and probably the whole of Wales, tried to steel themselves against yet another torrid onslaught of very stormy weather. My local authority, Conwy County Borough Council, took several pre-emptive measures by closing all available floodgates, but we've seen really extensive damage to the promenade at Llanfairfechan. It...
Janet Finch-Saunders: Well, again, I wish to begin by extending my sincere thanks to Mabon ap Gwynfor MS for tabling this very important motion, as well as to the 15 Members who supported these important calls to address prolonged waits for cancer diagnosis and treatments. As this debate will make clear, NHS cancer waiting times for September 2021 show that 59 per cent of patients receive their first treatment...
Janet Finch-Saunders: Minister, since primary care practitioners often care for people over extended periods of time, sometimes many years, the relationship between patient and doctor is particularly important. Now, when it comes to mental health issues, trusting relationships have been found wanting, because, simply, they can't get through to their GP. And in my own local health board, I'm seeing now many...
Janet Finch-Saunders: What action is the Welsh Government taking to support tourism and hospitality businesses this winter?
Janet Finch-Saunders: Yes, I am doing.
Janet Finch-Saunders: Will you commit to meeting with me away from the Siambr so that this commissioner proposal can be discussed in some greater detail, ensuring that policy action reflects the priority required to tackle, once and for all, the root causes of homelessness? Diolch.
Janet Finch-Saunders: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. As a declaration of interest, I would like to refer Members and members of the public to my own register of interests. Minister, the deepening homelessness crisis in Wales is devastating and isolating for far too many in our society. In 2019, 12,399 households were assessed as homeless, that being a 79.9 per cent increase on 2015-16. The latest data shows there were...
Janet Finch-Saunders: I'd like a statement from the climate change Minister, please, about storm Arwen. As many of you will know, 30,000 homes were left without power, Transport for Wales suspended the majority of its rail services, we lost church windows in Llandudno, and hundreds of trees fell, often strewn across the highways. A wind speed of 81 mph was recorded at Aberporth in Ceredigion, and, in paying...
