Delyth Jewell: We welcome this legislation as a step in the right direction. For most of the past 25 years, the private rented sector has placed so much power with landlords and made the sector easy for some people to benefit from using unscrupulous methods, as the Minister has said. I think it's worth noting, and it's been alluded to already, that in a sector where the balance has for so long been so...
Delyth Jewell: Thank you, Minister, for the statement.
Delyth Jewell: I'd like to ask for a statement from the economy and transport Minister about what the Welsh Government plans to do in relation to the rolling stock on the Rhymney line. We all want more people to use the trains. While capacity on that line will increase substantially over the next couple of years, it's now been confirmed through a freedom of information request that capacity on those trains...
Delyth Jewell: What's more fundamental than the air that we breathe? It's something we should be able to take for granted as a human right, and the fact that we have to have this debate today, I'm afraid, is a damning indictment of the Government's record. We know that, in order to live healthily, everyone should have access to clean, unpolluted drinking water and nourishing food that isn't poisoned. Even...
Delyth Jewell: Thank you, First Minister. I am concerned at the potential closure of a number of surgeries within my region. Last week, I wrote to the health board to ask for assurance that Lansbury Park and Penyrheol surgeries will be kept open, following the news that the GP there is to retire with no replacement yet appointed, and I'm awaiting a response. I'm worried, however, about the general picture...
Delyth Jewell: A vital step towards regenerating town centres has to be taking firm action to deal with the terrible plight of homelessness that causes so much great suffering to vulnerable people and has a very visible impact on town centres and city centres. Now, new figures on homelessness released by the Welsh Government today do show an increase in rough-sleeping. I know it's only a snapshot, but they...
Delyth Jewell: 8. What action is the Welsh Government taking to ensure adequate provision of GP services in South Wales East? OAQ55063
Delyth Jewell: No, thank you for agreeing with me on that. I wait to hear your answer more fully. But, as you were just saying about social housing, I also think that that is where we really need to be focusing delivery on. I welcome again what you've been saying on that. The figures show that, since 2016, there have been just 4,397 completed homes for the social housing sector, and that's around half of...
Delyth Jewell: Thank you, Minister. I welcome the tone that you're engaging with us on. I'm glad that you do agree with the general thrust of what we're saying here. So, just to put on the record, then, that, if we were to take a more reasonable look at the track record of the Government in delivering affordable housing in the definition in its wider sense of what it should mean, which I think that you...
Delyth Jewell: Diolch, Llywydd. Can the Minister explain why the Welsh Government is still counting the 7,129 homes sold through Help to Buy since 2016 as counting towards its target of 20,000 affordable homes, of which you've claimed 13,143 have been delivered already?
Delyth Jewell: Thank you for that, Minister. It seems to me the crux of the problem with the term 'affordable' is that the definition of it is so relative. So, a staggering 78 per cent of homes, so that's 5,564 that were sold through Help to Buy, were sold at a price of over £150,000. Over 1,000 homes that you count in the statistics as affordable were sold for over £250,000. I just can't see how any...
Delyth Jewell: I thank the Deputy Minister for her statement. There is a lot to welcome in it. There's a growing realisation that towns have been left behind due to the inaction of Governments here and in Westminster, and there's a realisation as well, I think, that that needs to change because of how important town centres are for businesses, for the health of the local economy, and of course—most...
Delyth Jewell: I thank the Deputy Minister for her statement. It's so important that we use Holocaust Memorial Day to remember those who lost their lives, the Jewish people, the Roma people, disabled people, LGBT people—anyone who didn't fit the twisted Nazi ideal. This date of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau has to be marked every year to remember, as you've said, and to learn from one of the...
Delyth Jewell: I would like to ask for a statement from the health Minister about general practitioner recruitment in Aneurin Bevan health board. I've been told that the health board has failed to plan in advance for the retirement of a GP that serves the Lansbury Park and Penyrheol surgeries in my region. Now, both of those practices are crucial bedrocks of their local communities, as you can imagine, and...
Delyth Jewell: Freedom of movement opens horizons. People living amongst us in our communities have benefited from this freedom—people who will now see those horizons disappear. It is a remarkable and deeply sad phenomenon, but here we are. I mentioned the focus groups that we held as a committee, and their testimony was devastating: people who have lived much of their lives in Wales who no longer feel...
Delyth Jewell: This week is my last as a member of the external affairs committee, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Chair, David Rees, and all other members of the committee for the welcome and friendship that I've experienced over the past year, as we have scrutinised various elements of the Welsh Government's and UK Government's plans in terms of exiting the European Union. One...
Delyth Jewell: I'm grateful this matter has been raised because there's another issue in Caerphilly that I'm sure that you'll be aware of, where local residents are unable to park and it's in Bryn Heol in Bedwas, where the residents have just been left exasperated by Caerphilly County Borough Council's indecision or the lack of any action to deal with the problem. They're told they can't park outside their...
Delyth Jewell: Sometimes in politics, it benefits us to take a long-lens view of how we ended up where we are. This will be my last contribution in this Chamber as my party's spokesperson on Brexit, as I'm taking on a new role that coincides quite fittingly with our timing of leaving the EU. It has been a curious honour—in equal measures, challenging and frustrating—to speak on this issue for my party...
Delyth Jewell: I can only assume that there is something that I'm genuinely not aware of that you're talking about and I can't answer something that I don't know what the specifics are. I'm disappointed that you've used an opportunity in a debate like this to make that point, genuinely.
Delyth Jewell: I really do think that this debate will help people. The fact that we are not fully able to integrate policing into the referral pathways that I referred to and the support networks has a hugely detrimental impact on the survivor, any survivor, of a hideous crime like rape. If policing and justice were devolved, we'd be able to look at less traumatic ways of reporting that involve health...
