Jenny Rathbone: Like earlier speakers, I agree that they make very clear recommendations in this review. A lot of it is around the quality of the communication between patients and doctors. So, for example, recommendation 25 indicates that some doctors seem to have been have hiding behind IPFR rather than telling patients that they’re unable to accept a request for a particular treatment where there is no...
Jenny Rathbone: This morning dentists in England have been expressing extreme concern about the rise in dental decay in five-year-olds in England. I wondered if—. Obviously, we have Designed to Smile here, which has led to a noticeable reduction in the number of five-year-olds suffering tooth decay in Wales. But, nevertheless, one child with tooth decay aged five is far too many. What discussions have you...
Jenny Rathbone: If you are so exercised about education, why didn’t you submit a motion to be debated on the quality of our education, instead of this catch-all motion, which leads us absolutely nowhere and is a waste of Assembly time?
Jenny Rathbone: I welcome the introduction of the two charging points on the Assembly estate. Could you elucidate whether or not this would be exclusively on the National Assembly site here in Cardiff, or whether there might be other charging points on other parts of the National Assembly’s estate up in north Wales? Because, like Simon Thomas said, one of the major problems is that it’s not possible to...
Jenny Rathbone: On a visit to Milford Haven recently with the Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee, I was surprised to hear one senior officer of one of the public bodies in the meeting, saying that, at a senior level, surprise had been expressed that money was being paid to another organisation to carry out a function that was going to collectively benefit the community. How well do you...
Jenny Rathbone: What progress has been made by public service boards to meet their obligations under the Well-Being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015?
Jenny Rathbone: [Continues.]—committee legacy report, it was suggested we should abandon weight-based recycling targets to carbon-based targets, to avoid perverse incentives and, more radically, we could convert waste collections—
Jenny Rathbone: [Continues.]—to a pay-as-you-go service like electricity and gas. And I look forward to hearing the Government's comments.
Jenny Rathbone: I share Lesley Griffiths’s ambition to enable us to become a zero-waste nation. We have to keep up the pressure to reduce, reuse and recycle, and our first obligation must be to reduce the amount of waste we create. It is nothing short of shocking that one third of food produced never reaches the table or the plate. On a farm visit yesterday in the Vale of Glamorgan I heard how one leading...
Jenny Rathbone: Will you take an intervention?
Jenny Rathbone: I’m just trying to clarify why it is you focus so closely on the Family Fund, because there are 32 organisations that have benefitted from this social services grant scheme and the Family Fund isn’t the only game in town in terms of support for disabled families, and it’s important that we maximise the support that’s available for them through various organisations.
Jenny Rathbone: Today in the House of Commons, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a £1,000 business rate relief for the pubs in England, no doubt under pressure from his own back benches. Whilst the pub can indeed in some communities be the last business standing, having seen the closure of the shop, the primary school, and the community centre, I hope that we in Wales can be a bit more discerning...
Jenny Rathbone: Obviously, arson is an extremely serious offence. I want to pay tribute to the fire services who turned out so promptly at a deliberate arson attack on a vehicle in Llanedeyrn on 15 January, because, without that, there would have been serious loss of life. But I also want to pay tribute to the Cardiff youth services and their work with the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service to ensure that...
Jenny Rathbone: I’d just like to add my voice on the urgency of this matter. Not only are students being asked to pay £150 to simply take the property off the market while they sort out the tenancy contract, which may never occur, but single people on housing benefits, people who are part of the Supporting People programme on employment support allowance, are having to pay for these fees out of the money...
Jenny Rathbone: Cabinet Secretary, there’s no room for taking the foot off the pedal on this. We have to target fly-tipping as well as recycling targets. There’s no such thing as throwing away—all waste needs to be disposed of in some way or another. So, there’s a cost in that. And, in Cardiff, they have achieved the Welsh Government target, which I’m very pleased about. And we need to keep going,...
Jenny Rathbone: What considerations has the Welsh Government given to how Wales can continue to meet and enhance its global environmental responsibilities once the UK has left the EU?
Jenny Rathbone: What advice and support is the Welsh Government giving to local authorities to implement the 30 hours free childcare pledge?
Jenny Rathbone: Having made this connection, I think that will, then, complete it, but I haven’t looked at the detail recently. Frankly, if it doesn’t deviate the road, we’ll have to take other measures to ensure it does. I just wanted to use this opportunity to speak about the childcare offer in ‘Taking Wales Forward’ and look at the amount of money that’s been allocated so far to delivering...
Jenny Rathbone: I completely agree with Mike Hedges about spending more money on preventing people getting ill in the first place. I just wanted to pick up some points that were made about the eastern bay relief road, because there’s no point in building a road and then only three quarters completing it. Having done the link road, we just need to complete it, and this small sum of money, relatively, to the...
Jenny Rathbone: Last week I visited my local Royal Mail sorting office, and all the talk was about the way in which private companies are eating into the profitable parts of their business, while they continue to have an obligation to deliver the universal postal service. These predators have no obligation to meet the pay and conditions that Royal Mail workers have fought for over the years, and they are,...
