5. Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Dementia

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:34 pm on 29 September 2021.

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Photo of Lynne Neagle Lynne Neagle Labour 4:34, 29 September 2021

Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Can I thank Luke Fletcher for tabling this very important motion today and for engaging with me so constructively ahead of this debate? Luke has spoken with such courage about his own family experiences of dementia. I hope that he won't mind me saying that, in my personal experience, true champions are rarely drawn from the ranks of the unscarred, and I know that people living with dementia will have a powerful champion in you in this Chamber, Luke.

I'd also like to thank everyone else who has spoken today and I recognise that these have been difficult contributions to make and painful for Members and very important it was for everybody to hear them.