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Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:34 pm on 31 January 2018.

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Photo of Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething Labour 2:34, 31 January 2018

I think there are two broad points there. The first is on the points you made about traducing Assembly Members and their efforts to engage in local health boards. I think it's really important that every Assembly Member engages with their local health board around the future of health services. We've just had a parliamentary review that set out again that the current way that services are organised have served us well in the past but they're not fit for our future. So, we need to change them. And that's the national challenge that faces us. I think every Assembly Member should be properly engaged in that conversation. Again, the maturity that led to the parliamentary review needs to continue in that continuing debate. And I think that when it comes to a debate in this place, of course, there will be to and fro in the Chamber. It's not as if Ministers—[Interruption.]