10. Plaid Cymru Debate: A&E services at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:26 pm on 11 March 2020.

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Photo of Vikki Howells Vikki Howells Labour 5:26, 11 March 2020

I'd like to place on record again my support for full 24-hour A&E at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. This is such an important topic, so I'm a bit mystified, really, as to why Plaid Cymru have only used 30 minutes for this debate. I hope it's not an attempt to stifle the voices of Labour backbenchers, who represent areas affected by this. I'd have thought that they would have wanted to give more time for a full and sufficient discussion.

I'm also disappointed because to my mind, this motion isn't really truthful. Plaid Cymru know all too well that decisions about local delivery are made and have to be made by health boards on a day-to-day basis. Now, other parties may disagree with the way that that system operates, and that's a perfectly valid position, but then they need to bring forward a plan to change the system, rather than simply to point score. 

The motion also fails to consider the bigger picture—