Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:04 pm on 13 February 2018.
The First Minister will remember that last week, in my question on the agenda, I noted that the Deloitte report said that the financial and strategic planning at the health board is simplistic, with budgets generally rolled forward into the next year. Again, the leader of the opposition pointed out the disastrous financial performance of these boards. Part of this Deloitte report also said there is limited insight regarding how the health board's ultimately going to recover the financial position, and a distinct lack of secondary questioning from board members to facilitate detailed debate and discussion across key areas of risk, and executive level leadership capability and capacity needs to be enhanced.
Labour has been in charge of the health service in Wales for 20 years nearly, since 1999. Does he accept personal responsibility for presiding over a health service that in many parts of the country is worthy only of the third world?