Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: I wonder if the First Minister would agree that, whilst some in this Chamber may be able to interpret the EU negotiations as a great adventure, others, who perhaps don’t live in huge houses in the middle of Wiltshire, may find that the massive increase that we’re already seeing in the cost of petrol, the increase we’re seeing in the cost of food, is already impacting on the poorest...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: What assessment has the Cabinet Secretary made of the impact that the £66 billion deficit predicted in the leaked treasury report will have on Wales if we were to have a hard Brexit?
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thank you. The Cabinet Secretary yesterday gave a warning that there are leaner times ahead, and that this year’s budget should be used as an opportunity for those public sector recipients of funding to prepare for cuts in terms of the austerity that’s being imposed by the UK Tory Government. But now we have this additional problem of this £66 billion of a projected shortfall if we were...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: 2. What assessment has the Minister made of the impact that the £66 billion HM Treasury deficit resulting from Brexit will have on Wales? OAQ(5)0049(FLG)
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thank you for that response. Ensuring that our rural communities are technologically connected is crucially important for all sectors of our economy. Given that a report was published today that highlights the fact that mobile network for towns and villages in Mid and West Wales is poor, has the Government given any comment on the idea of giving new guidance to local authorities that would...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: 5. Will the Minister outline his priority sectors for economic development in Mid and West Wales? OAQ(5)0050(EI)
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Yes, I would like to.
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Diolch yn fawr, Lywydd. We all want to see older people get the best care possible. However, here in Wales, as elsewhere in the UK, we have a social care time bomb, and before it goes off it’s absolutely critical that we have an honest, challenging conversation about how the future of care in Wales is going to occur and how we’re going to pay for it. Otherwise, we risk facing a social...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: May I also thank the Chair for outlining the committee’s priorities over the next year? It’s clear that we’re going to have a very busy autumn with this huge Bill on land tax devolution that we will be scrutinising, and we will also be scrutinising the draft budget, of course, and also there’s the possibility now of us scrutinising landfill tax, so there’s a huge amount of work in...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thank you. I’ve met with the director of public health for the Hywel Dda health board area recently and she has confirmed that a recent survey has shown that 28 per cent of children up to the age of four are overweight. That’s 28 per cent—that’s an astonishing figure. Another report recently showed that three quarters of children in Britain spend less time in the open air than people...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: 8. Will the First Minister make a statement on the measures being taken to reduce childhood obesity in Mid and West Wales? OAQ(5)0152(FM)
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Many speakers today have talked about the remarkable work carried out by health workers in Wales, and who hasn’t heard about the extreme sensitivity used by some of our palliative care nurses with people in their dying moments? Who hasn’t heard about those incredible stories of how surgeons have saved the lives of a dying child and how that’s transformed and given meaning back to the...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Well, Dai Lloyd has told us not to mourn the situation, but I have to say that I am still in mourning. I am still in mourning for those areas of rural Wales and our agricultural industry that now don’t know what their future holds. Rwy’n dal i alaru dros y bobl hynny yn y cymunedau tlotaf a fyddai wedi tybio bod yr arian hwnnw yn dod iddynt, ond sydd bellach heb unrhyw syniad a fydd yn...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Over the summer, Newgale beach in Pembrokeshire was one of the first in Wales to participate in a campaign to tidy up our beaches. It asked people to join with this campaign to collect litter for just two minutes. I did this over the weekend in Whitesands. I would like to ask whether you’d be willing to applaud this campaign and whether you would also remind people that we wouldn’t need...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Cabinet Secretary, as you’ll be aware, the Hywel Dda health board is engaged with clinicians and patient groups to look at developing an enhanced patient pathway for paediatric services in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire by the end of the year. On a recent visit to Withybush and Glangwili, I was made aware of the reliance on doctors from outside the UK to ensure that we can fulfil the...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: I’d like to follow up the question that was asked by Rhun earlier, and that is: in the light of the decision in England to reject the contract by junior doctors, there could be a real impact in terms of morale in the NHS in England. I just wondered if you could tell us what you could do in addition to really attract, possibly, some of those people who are disillusioned with the system as it...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: 5. Will the Minister provide an update on paediatric services in west Wales? OAQ(5)0034(HWS)
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Will the Minister set out how the City Region approach is going to benefit areas in rural Mid and West Wales?
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Will the Minister outline what plans are being put in place to prepare for a rapidly ageing population?
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: Thank you, Presiding Officer. May I congratulate the Minister on his appointment to this important portfolio? I want to concentrate on one particular issue and that is the issue of Welsh for adults. In 2014-15, £10 million was spent on teaching Welsh to adults. Some 14,000 people participated in that programme, which works out at around £700 per capita for those people participating in...
