Julie Morgan: Can I associate myself with the comments made by Jenny Rathbone? I was pleased to attend this meeting last week with the Cardiff University academic and was really shocked at the tales that were told and I think if we could look at where we are with breastfeeding, that would be a great help. Yesterday, the cross-party Gypsy and Traveller group met in Pembrokeshire and had feedback from the...
Julie Morgan: I thank the First Minister for that response. I want to make the First Minister aware that a huge number of the staff at the DWP office in Heath in my constituency are absolutely filled with uncertainty and concern at the moment. Many of them are disabled, many of them have caring responsibilities, and some of them will have to travel up to three buses to get the new location, not yet...
Julie Morgan: 4. What discussions has the First Minister held regarding plans to relocate staff from the Department for Work and Pensions office in the Heath area of Cardiff? OAQ51378
Julie Morgan: On Friday, I visited the new research base for the British Heart Foundation funded research in Swansea University medical school, which I know the leader of the house knows very well. Sadly, it moved from Cardiff University, but it's obviously doing extremely well in Swansea University. And I learnt that what they are doing there is actually groundbreaking research, and the only place in...
Julie Morgan: The statistics on FGM are complex, and there isn't one single point of data, which is something that we are looking for, and which I'll come onto later, but we do know that, from October 2016 to October 2017 in the Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board, 203 women were living with FGM who had actually been to see health practitioners. Data from all seven health boards in Wales show...
Julie Morgan: I'd like to thank my colleagues Jenny Rathbone, Joyce Watson, Jayne Bryant, Dai Lloyd and Angela Burns, who can't be here today, for supporting this debate today. I'd also like to thank Jane Hutt for her support on this issue. Female genital mutilation—the process of cutting or disfiguring young girls and women for non-medical reasons—is an extreme form of discrimination against them....
Julie Morgan: Diolch. I think it's very important to start this debate on female genital mutilation by hearing the voices of women directly affected. So, we're going to start by playing a short clip from the film called A Change has Begun, which I'd like to warn Members is quite powerful.
Julie Morgan: Can I welcome the new leader of the house to her post, and also thank Jane Hutt for the tireless and detailed way that she’s answered questions in this session, and the great help she’s been both inside and outside the Chamber? Could the leader of the house arrange for the Minister for health and social services to make a statement about progress into the inquiry into the contaminated...
Julie Morgan: Thank you. Mahatma Gandhi—on Monday, a statue of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled in Cardiff Bay, opposite the Wales Millennium Centre. This was the result of three years of hard work and fundraising by the Hindu Council of Wales, and I would like to pay tribute to that organisation and its chair, Vimla Patel, who’s worked tirelessly to make the statue a reality. Hundreds of people attended...
Julie Morgan: In September, I attended the Fair Funding Wales anti-austerity rally at city hall in Cardiff, along with other Members from this Assembly, and more recently leaders and mayors throughout the UK went up to Westminster in order to have a meeting, they hoped, with the Government about the issue of fair funding, which did not take place, and of course today we have a statement on the draft budget...
Julie Morgan: Schools are a very important part of the public services we provide and I congratulate the Welsh Government on its funding for the twenty-first century schools programme. Would the finance Secretary congratulate Cardiff Council on the planned new joint building of Ysgol Glan Ceubal Welsh-language primary school and Gabalfa Primary School in my constituency of Cardiff North? I attended the...
Julie Morgan: I welcome this statement; I think it’s absolutely essential that Wales tackles and does all it can to mitigate climate change, because I think we’ve got to accept that it’s the poorest of people in the world who suffer from what climate change is bringing to us. I think we have an absolute duty to do this, so I welcome this statement very much. I welcome the ambitious targets, the 70...
Julie Morgan: Following on from Simon Thomas’s question, could we have a statement by the finance Secretary on the different types of innovative funding that are available for capital projects like the one that is going to be used in the new Velindre hospital in my constituency of Cardiff North? Because as Simon Thomas has said, there’s been a lot of publicity over the weekend about UK Labour’s plan...
Julie Morgan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the report. I’m a member of the committee, and I found this a very important, stimulating report. The Chair already mentioned in his introduction the panel of trainee doctors that we had. I felt that we really did get to grips with some of the key issues that doctors, trainees and students have to address. I particularly enjoyed the visit at the...
Julie Morgan: Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I welcome this statement. I think it is good that it does celebrate the contribution made by European workers here in Wales. I think it’s a positive statement and, as many have said, a real, practical contribution to the debate that is going on. Personally, I think the debate so far in Westminster does look as if the Westminster Government is putting...
Julie Morgan: Can I ask for a statement from the health Minister about any progress that’s been made on setting up the public inquiry into contaminated blood and whether there’s been any contact between the Welsh Government and the Westminster Government about this issue? Earlier in the month, I was pleased to attend the all-party Westminster group on contaminated blood, chaired by Diana Johnson MP, in...
Julie Morgan: What plans does the Welsh Government have to tackle sepsis in Wales?
Julie Morgan: I thank the Cabinet Secretary for that information. I understand from the Communication Workers Union that there’ve been 1,750 days lost by Royal Mail staff across the UK during the last year due to dog attacks. There’ve been some terrible injuries to postal staff including fractures, tendon damage, and even amputations. So, I’m grateful that we have those Wales-wide figures, because...
Julie Morgan: 3. Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on the extent of injuries caused by dog bites treated in Welsh hospitals? OAQ(5)0210(HWS)
Julie Morgan: Many of my constituents are very interested in the development of the metro and the awarding of the new franchise, and have attended quite a lot of meetings that have involved discussing the specifications and other consultations held by Transport for Wales. They did hope to see publicly the specification document, and I note the Cabinet Secretary did say earlier on that he would not be...
