Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:06 pm on 29 September 2021.
I'm very disheartened to know that we have a Welsh Government here that has failed to intervene so far to ensure that the antiseptic of sunlight can be spread abroad on the particular report—the Holden report—that we're discussing. We know that there are deep-seated problems in our mental health services in north Wales, and I want to ask the Minister, along with the chorus of voices that have already spoken, and the further speakers to speak: how many more people have to die? How many more vulnerable people need to suffer harm unnecessarily? How many more families need to lose their loved ones before we will see the radical action that is necessary in order to resolve the fundamental problems that we still have in our mental health services in north Wales some six years after they were identified as failings sufficiently to the extent that the health board was put into special measures? It simply isn't good enough. And we look to you, as a new health Minister, to step up to the plate, to hold people who were responsible for these failings to account in order that we can get some justice for those families who've lost their loved ones and those patients who've been so tragically let down.