Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:44 pm on 6 July 2021.
I was very careful in my language to say that, actually, the virus was contracted in a hospital setting. I do take the point that there is cross-over in hospitals, but we were told time and time again that measures were being taken. In fact, I was told by the health Minister that I was being alarmist when I said it was out of control in some hospitals. In some health boards, one in three patients were contracting the COVID virus in a hospital setting. Now, these were decisions that were taken here in Wales by Welsh Government Ministers. Surely those decisions need now to be tested at a Welsh public inquiry and not lost in a UK-wide public inquiry. Will you commit to using your energies within Government to campaign for a Wales-wide public inquiry so these very issues can be looked at and remediated here in Wales?