Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:01 pm on 13 February 2018.
Well, funding it, and at a level higher than England. That's what happens with the health service in Wales, making sure that the money is available for health and social care. We're seeing social care collapsing in England. We're seeing councils—Tory councils—declaring themselves bankrupt in England. So, making sure the money is there.
Yes, there are challenges, and we know that, and those challenges will need to be met head on by the health boards. But he says 'national health shambles'. Perhaps he would like to put that to the doctors and nurses who work in the health service, both in north Wales and elsewhere. And let me remind him—and I'll take him there, perhaps, when it's built—of the sub-regional neonatal intensive care centre in Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, a major investment—a major investment—in Ysbyty Glan Clwyd—an investment decision that was taken by me at a time when it was being suggested that those services should move over the border. I made sure that an independent group of experts was brought together and a case was made to ensure that it was built in Ysbyty Glan Clwyd.
So, we will ensure that where those serices can be made available to the people of north Wales they are made available, and the SuRNICC is an example of that.