Helen Mary Jones: I'd like to begin by thanking the Minister for his statement and for the briefing that he provided to opposition parties on Friday. I'd associate myself with everything that he said about the huge importance of the steel industry to Wales. We tend, for obvious reasons—because of the number of jobs—to focus on Port Talbot, but as the Minister has said, there's a much broader significance....
Helen Mary Jones: I'm grateful to the First Minister for his reply, and of course I associate myself with what he said about the huge efforts that front-line staff have been making in hospitals and community settings across the Hywel Dda area. But the need for the restoration of ongoing regular treatments is becoming more and more urgent. One of my constituents, Colin Jones from Llanelli, has described being...
Helen Mary Jones: 8. What discussions has the First Minister had about the waiting lists for surgery in Hywel Dda University Health Board? OQ55890
Helen Mary Jones: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm very pleased to be able to take part in this debate. The inquiry, of course, took place before I joined the committee, although I was there just about in time to participate in signing off the report, and I really enjoyed reading what I think is an excellent report. I'm very happy to commend it to the Senedd. It's a strong and detailed set of recommendations and,...
Helen Mary Jones: Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. I think the number and the breadth of responses to this debate, the contributions, show that there's a broad consensus across this Chamber about how important the creative industries are to our national life and about how very important it is that we continue to support and maintain them through this difficult time. I can't possibly respond to everything that...
Helen Mary Jones: Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm very pleased to rise today to recommend this report to the Senedd. It is undoubtedly the case that COVID-19 has had a terrible, devastating effect across our national life, and it's had that effect nowhere worse than on the creative industries, which depend so much on face-to-face communication, whether that is to record a television programme or to...
Helen Mary Jones: I'm grateful to the Minister for that. If I can take us in a slightly different, more medium-term direction, we were very grateful for the Minister's input to our discussions in committee this morning, and one of the areas that we touched on was the way in which—. Equality organisations have been saying to us as a committee that equality considerations, fairness, haven't always been easy to...
Helen Mary Jones: I'm grateful to the Minister for his answer and for some of the private conversations he's had with me, and I know with spokespeople of other parties, in this regard. I wonder if he can take the opportunity to just lay out a little bit more for us the lessons learnt from the issues that arose with phase 3 intimated in his answers already with regard, for example, to an expression of interest...
Helen Mary Jones: Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd. If I can begin by returning the Minister to the third phase of the economic resilience fund—and we did, of course, have an opportunity to question him about the situation, about having to close early, last week. There is, of course, the saying that a week is a long time in politics, and I wonder if the Minister can tell us is he yet able to give us a timescale by...
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