Mr Neil Hamilton: 1. Will the Commission provide an update on the flags flown on the Assembly estate? OAQ55226
Mr Neil Hamilton: Will the Minister provide an update on the Welsh Government’s priorities for improving the health service over the coming year?
Mr Neil Hamilton: Can the Counsel General really be surprised that the UK Government hasn't taken him seriously in asking for a role in this negotiating mandate? He mentions constructive engagement, and he doesn't want that at all; he wants destructive engagement. He has remained consistently and belligerently hostile to all the negotiating aims of the UK Government. The people of Wales voted by a majority to...
Mr Neil Hamilton: I thank the First Minister for that reply. The First Minister will know that the incidence of self-harm is massively enhanced by those who suffer adverse experiences in childhood. That can be neglect or it can be abuse—whether it's physical abuse, emotional abuse or sexual abuse—or household dysfunction, which can include all sorts of things, like things that happen in a broken home or...
Mr Neil Hamilton: 3. Will the First Minister provide an update on Welsh Government efforts to tackle self-harm in Wales? OAQ55171
Mr Neil Hamilton: No. All I'm saying is that the democratic institutions by which Wales is governed actually exclude the views of a very substantial proportion of the population permanently, and that is a big flaw in the system. When I was at Westminster, I saw the opposite side of this coin, which gave rise to the Scottish Parliament. It's because the Scottish people were permanently represented at...
Mr Neil Hamilton: Well, that's an interesting thought. But that is the problem, that in Wales we have lived under a permanent one-party state. And it's because I see this as an incurable flaw in the system that I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that not only has devolution failed, but it will always fail because the political culture is such that anybody who is right of centre is never going to have...
Mr Neil Hamilton: Diolch, Llywydd, and I beg to move the amendments standing in my name. I agree with Darren Millar that this doesn't necessarily mean that devolution could have succeeded and that it's because we've had a Labour Government, propped up by Plaid Cymru, for the entire life of this Assembly in one shape or form—either in coalition with it or at the beginning of this Assembly, of course, they...
Mr Neil Hamilton: I could buy a house.
Mr Neil Hamilton: I could leave my wife.
Mr Neil Hamilton: I thank the Minister for that reply. Is he aware that immigration—net migration—has averaged 330,000 a year since 2014? Would he agree with me that we do not need to add to the UK population a city the size of Cardiff every single year from immigration alone in order to plug gaps in health and social care, to revert to his earlier answer? The Labour Party at its last conference in 2019...
Mr Neil Hamilton: 5. What discussions has the Welsh Government had with the UK Government on future immigration policy post-Brexit? OAQ55131
Mr Neil Hamilton: I think all my exchanges with the Minister in the last four years about flooding have involved coastal flooding. I wonder if she would agree with me that we now need to give much greater attention and priority to dealing with the consequences of inland flooding as well. Nobody could fail to have been impressed by Mick Antoniw's tale of woe in RCT earlier on, and I very much agree with what he...
Mr Neil Hamilton: I thank the First Minister for that reply. Does he agree with me that one of the many failures of devolution is that, over the last 20 years, Wales has actually dropped to the bottom of the income table of the home nations and the regions of England, and one of the biggest failures of Labour and Plaid Cymru Governments in the last 20 years has been the failure to attract higher paid...
Mr Neil Hamilton: 6. What assessment has the First Minister made of the value for money and effectiveness of Welsh Government spend? OAQ55140
Mr Neil Hamilton: The Minister is a massive supporter of the European Convention on Human Rights, and article 2 of protocol 1 says that if the state exercises any functions in relation to education and teaching, it 'shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions.' What she's just said, of course, rides coach and...
Mr Neil Hamilton: 7. Will the Minister provide an update on relationship teaching in schools? OAQ55087
Mr Neil Hamilton: I thank the First Minister for that reply, but I think most fair-minded people would say that that's a very partial answer to the question. The reality is that, in many respects, performance in the health service has got dramatically worse in the last 12 months. As far as Betsi Cadwaladr is concerned, a third of patients are now waiting over four hours for accident and emergency, compared...
Mr Neil Hamilton: 2. What assessment has the First Minister made of improvements to the health service over the past year? OAQ55089
Mr Neil Hamilton: I thank the Minister for that reply. Taking my cue from Dai Lloyd's question earlier on, will the Minister acknowledge the vital importance of doing an early trade deal with the United States, where we have a pro-Brexit Government that is keen to help us as a country, in stark contrast to Monsieur Barnier, who maintains a policy of intransigence and seems to want us, for the indefinite...
