Angela Burns: I just wonder, speaking with my mother hat on for a moment, if you would consider, or if you are already doing, guides or advice for parents about how to help them. Because, of course, schools are one half of the equation, but they spend 50 per cent of their time elsewhere. Whilst many do have chaotic lives, there’s an awful lot where you can have the most robust family, but still have one...
Angela Burns: Lynne, first of all, I’d like to pay an enormous tribute to you, because you are such an advocate for children and young people and for tackling the issues that we have with the child and adolescent mental health services. Because I agree with everything that you’ve said this afternoon: I think it is vitally important that we enable our children to become more emotionally and...
Angela Burns: I cannot actually tell you if it’s all, because who knows? In the same way, you guys most certainly haven’t done all you could do. But let’s be clear: what do we have? We have a result that protects a valuable industry for Wales. We have a result that actually will enable an enormous investment to happen in Tata Steel and in the steel industry in Wales, and that’s what we...
Angela Burns: Diolch, Presiding Officer. I’m very pleased to be able to wind up on this debate, and I’d like to thank Russell for opening it the way he did, because I think, Russell George, you painted a very broad canvas of the economic needs of the country. You rightly pointed out the growth of the Northern Powerhouse and the opportunities for north Wales and the north Wales growth deal. However,...
Angela Burns: Of course.
Angela Burns: I carefully cut the grape in half and I fed one half very carefully to my precious child. She sucked out the contents and then proceeded to choke on the skin. I was utterly terrified. My CPR training—learnt when I was a rescue diver, in the days when I was younger and fitter—completely went out of my head. Thankfully my husband was present and he saved our little girl’s life. Today she...
Angela Burns: Good afternoon.
Angela Burns: I know, Cabinet Secretary, that you and I both share the same view and priority to get as many children into school, as often as possible. But there is one small area that does concern me, and that’s the area of children who are persistently sick. I have had a number of constituents come to me, where their children have either had the bad luck to have a series of tonsillitis bouts, where...
Angela Burns: 1. Will the Cabinet Secretary outline the guidance that the Welsh Government is providing to schools on how to improve attendance? OAQ(5)0088(EDU)
Angela Burns: Thank you very much for your statement, Cabinet Secretary. Yes, I do join you in thanking our hard-working NHS staff. It is amazing and very satisfying to see the improvements in cardiac care, and I absolutely welcome these improvements and I thank the staff who’ve made all this possible by their very hard work. I was delighted to read both the statement and the plan. You have laid out in...
Angela Burns: I’m very pleased to hear that, Cabinet Secretary, because what we need, above all else, is clarification over this situation, hopefully followed by a Welsh Government commitment to Yr Egin. This is so important for Carmarthenshire. We have talked about this project now for, it must be well over 18 months, in and out of this Chamber. It’s always enjoyed enormous amounts of support, not...
Angela Burns: Good afternoon, First Minister. May I, first of all, reinforce Julie Morgan’s calls for that national public inquiry? I think that’s very important. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development recently reported on the quality of the UK health services, which recommended the need to establish a set of key health data and quality indicators for all of the UK health systems,...
Angela Burns: Will the Cabinet Secretary inform Members whether he intends to grant the University of Wales Trinity St David’s application for between £4 – 6 million to fund the development of S4C’s new headquarters in Carmarthen? EAQ(5)0119(EI)
Angela Burns: Will the First Minister outline the Welsh Government's plans to improve the health of children across Wales?
Angela Burns: Thank you. I think this report was quite clear, though. We understand the financial constraints that we live within, but if I could just bring us back to recommendation 6, one of our real concerns is that those financial constraints are having an adverse effect on the care home sector, which is why we believe it is so important for the Welsh Government to have a really good, clear...
Angela Burns: I very much enjoyed being part of this committee and I’d like to thank everyone who came as witnesses before it. They were very detailed, they were very knowledgeable and, in the main, they were incredibly passionate about the different areas that they represented. I’d also like to thank the clerking team and the staff for turning around and marshalling us all so well. The report, I...
Angela Burns: One of the logjams that happen in this area, though, Minister, is within local councils that have to grant the applications of the various schemes that come forward. Do you believe that local councils are adequately knowledgeable of the benefits of local community schemes and, in fact, adequately knowledgeable of the best way of promoting them, whether it’s wind power, whether it’s river...
Angela Burns: What plans does the Welsh Government have to control letting costs in Wales?
Angela Burns: Diolch, Lywydd. With some trepidation I’m going to try and pour some oil upon these troubled waters, because we support entirely your motion. No-one can dispute how incredibly important general practice is to sustaining and delivering national health services. We also support the amendments by Plaid Cymru, because you actually detail facts, although I do think that you are very naughty,...
Angela Burns: Minister, more policy development is recognising that we cannot work in silos and that many people will have co-morbidities, which will exercise the knowledge and skills of all allied healthcare professionals. What discussions have you had with professional bodies representing allied healthcare professionals, in order to determine that the training requirements for these bodies reflect not...
