Part of 2. Questions to the Counsel General and Brexit Minister – in the Senedd at 2:58 pm on 16 January 2019.
I thank the Counsel general for his answer, which is, at some level, reassuring. We have, of course, previously in this Chamber discussed the difficulties that health and care services may face if we are unable to recruit staff from the EU. It's been particularly drawn to my attention that this will be a huge problem for the care sector, for the qualified nurses working, not in hospital settings, but in care homes. I hope the Counsel General and the rest of Government will continue with the discussions that he has outlined, because we would not wish to add to what is already perceived by many EU citizens as a bureaucratic process and potentially as a hostile environment—practical difficulties that would arise from the failure to recognise qualifications consistently across boundries.