6. 6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Welsh Government Performance

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:12 pm on 15 March 2017.

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Photo of Andrew RT Davies Andrew RT Davies Conservative 5:12, 15 March 2017

Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. I welcome and congratulate everyone who’s contributed in the debate in their own particular way. It was noticeable from the leader of the house that she didn’t address head-on the very points that were put to her around health waiting times, around recruitment of doctors and nurses to get our health service back up to where we want it to be, around the special measures that four of our six health boards find themselves in, and around the points that Mark Reckless touched on, where he used the indices that are internationally recognised. Wales, sadly, is at the foothills of those league tables. None of us are proud about that at all. We are ambitious for Wales, but what we want is a Government in this place that has the same ambitions that the people of Wales have. Regrettably, from the exhibition that the leader of the house gave today—. All she gave was a poor excuse for the record to date delivered by this Government. Do you know what makes me angry, leader of the house? [Interruption.] I’ll take the intervention in a minute. Do you know what makes me angry, leader of the house? That generation after generation of schoolchildren have missed the opportunity to reach their potential under the education system that you have presided over, where you have been a Minister right the way through since the dawn of devolution. I notice that you didn’t address the points that I put to you on education around the PISA rankings, around the funding—£607—around the lack of teachers in our schools, which are all figures that have been given to the education committee by the unions. You have presided over those figures, and you continue to preside over those figures. David Rees touched on—[Interruption.] Sorry, Jenny, I did forget. I’ll take the intervention. Sorry.