Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 2:02 pm on 5 February 2020.
My team was truly saddened to hear of Paul's passing. He'd been a regular visitor to my office. A local man, homeless, he lived in a tent on the banks of Afon Cefni for a period. My team tried to help him, and were frustrated time and time again. He was made homeless originally because of the death of his mother, or after the death of his mother. He'd been in a hostel for one time but was told to leave for apparently stealing a sandwich. He was desperate for assistance and found he just couldn't get the support he needed. Do you agree that it's people like Paul who have suffered, and in many cases lost their lives, because of spending cuts and that it's for people like Paul or because of people like Paul that we must invest properly in eradicating homelessness, and nothing but an increase in the funding available for this is acceptable?