Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...both amendments. There are no surprises, it’s fair to say, and I make no apologies for that, because we will be unable to provide the NHS that we want unless we establish a centre for medical education in Bangor and expand medical placements across Wales. And the other amendment: we’re not going to be able to provide the healthcare that we want and the health services we want unless we...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...by Bob Wrench, a bronze winner in the Christchurch games in 1974, and it was Bob who had the vision to establish the Holyhead and Anglesey Weightlifting and Fitness Centre 50 years ago. A high-school sports teacher, not only was he hugely talented at weightlifting, he could see what lifting could offer to the area's young people, many of whom would otherwise not have such...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...about the impact on people who drink to excess now, and the concerns that moderate drinkers on low incomes will suffer unfairly because of the financial cost? I hope that through the programme of education alongside this legislation more and more people over time will see that it will be possible to adapt their drinking habits in a way that will mean that there won’t be a financial...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...is being gathered. When are we going to have this data being published, because I think that any data that's available has to be published? In terms of passing the Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Bill, the concerns about the lack of resources to support that Bill have been very evident. Could the Cabinet Secretary explain which resources the Government intends...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on the allocation of funding in the budget to develop medical education in Bangor?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...also an opportunity to see how this works in Scotland, as the price is set there. So, we need the best possible evidence. I also want to see better communication around the Bill and a commitment to educate people on how to avoid paying more for alcohol, for example by drinking alcohol that has a lower alcohol content, and I think that that would be a positive side-effect. With any public...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you. I’m in close contact with campaigners who are very concerned about consultations on the closure of a number of rural schools on Anglesey. I do understand the pressure on the council and I would like you to consider one element of those pressures, namely that one set of your officials, to all intents and purposes, is promoting the closure of rural schools by suggesting that...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...attending clinics or centres where they are looking for support. So, it’s possible that there is an underestimation of the number of people who need support. What that suggests to me is that the education and the preventative agenda that aims to prevent people from having STIs in the first place is failing, and failing in a significant way. We’re not talking here about education in...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: It's not nice watching Wales playing catch-up again; it's the second time in health in two days with that announcement from Jeremy Hunt about the opening of five medical schools in England yesterday. I look forward to us catching up with that eventually. Plaid Cymru, of course, on the pay cap issue, have long made it clear that we believe that the pay cap should have been raised previously,...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ..., so that our rural communities in Wales are a cradle of innovation and an exciting place to live and work in. I remember when Anglesey Aluminium closed. Good friends of mine left the island. The schools lost children; my children lost friends. Those families were heartbroken, and I think of one family in particular who returned to the nuclear industry, as it happens. I'll refer to nuclear...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...willingness to work with the Cabinet Secretary for health to encourage the young people of Wales to follow a career in health and care. Would you, as a Government, support joint investment between education and health, possibly, in a kind of all-Wales roadshow to explain the whole range of career options in these areas and to generate excitement in those options, from nursing to medical...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...young people had needed treatment for neurodevelopmental issues, rather than CAMHS. We also know that the threshold for CAMHS has been far too high. That was noted by the Children, Young People and Education Committee inquiry in 2014. The Wales Audit Office also noted that there was a problem of treatment for young people being stopped if an appointment was missed, and that was an issue...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ..., although having many people around you doesn't necessarily mean that you can't also feel lonely and isolated. That is something that we learnt during our inquiry, which was certainly an education for me and, I know, to my fellow Members. What the report that we have does, of course, is remind each and every one of us, whatever our personal experiences may be, that loneliness and...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...costs for local authorities and all kinds of other institutions that have to deal with the results of homelessness. And then there are the indirect costs of failure to reach potential, educational potential, and the loss of income through taxation as people lose their jobs, with the costs for local businesses who find that their towns are unattractive because of a lack of support for...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: I am convinced that it’s through the education system that we can get young people on the right track towards physical activity in order to improve their health. There’s an opportunity here to draw attention to the beginning of the health committee inquiry into physical activity among children and young people. Now, Ireland has just introduced physical activity as an examination—for a...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...Assembly on 20 November, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance mentioned the round-table arrangements for the Minister for agriculture. He talked about the working party of the Cabinet Secretary for Education. He talked about a group chaired by the Cabinet Secretary for the economy. And another area that will be very sensitive to our departure from the European Union will be health and social...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...or there is a general ambition, if truth be told, to develop Bangor University as a centre of excellence in the area of research and healthcare training. We have an ambition to develop the medical education centre too, and there are very real opportunities to train nurses as well as other health professionals and doctors. In saying that, I’m talking about training undergraduates from...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...have developed specialisms, perhaps, in rural medicine, and who are committed to working in rural Wales and in the north Wales area specifically. There is an opportunity, I think, through this new education centre, to provide that in partnership, I hope, with Cardiff and Swansea. There is talk of moving more students from Swansea and Cardiff. We know that some trainees are going on...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...to set those charging points outside them? Where’s the strategy across the public sector to install those charging points? Do we have to have charging points in surgeries or twenty-first century schools? We need to take that action. Where are the regulations to make it compulsory for the fleet of public sector vehicles in councils and the NHS to be zero-carbon-emission vehicles or...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...of his contribution to the Methodist reformation and the over 900 hymns that he wrote, many of them among the most popular today still, but also he made a huge contribution towards the cultural and educational development of Wales. He modernised the Welsh language, was one of the first to write in Welsh against slavery in America; he was also very prominent in insisting that women should...
