Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:56 pm on 6 October 2020.
Well, the Member is right to point to the fact that coronavirus is having and has had a very serious impact on the ability of the health service to carry out activities that, at any other time, would have been central to the work of the national health service. That, I'm afraid, is inevitable, it's inescapable. And while the heath service is working very hard to create the conditions in which as much activity as possible can be safely carried out while the coronavirus crisis continues, there's no escaping the fact that there will be longer waits for some procedures in Wales than we have seen for some time.