9. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Mental Health

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:11 pm on 6 October 2021.

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Photo of Jack Sargeant Jack Sargeant Labour 4:11, 6 October 2021

Thank you, Darren Millar, for taking this intervention. I do welcome this debate. World Mental Health Day is 10 October, but we should remember that it's actually every single day. And in terms of the level of support and services, I think the Member is right: we do need to address those issues and I was pleased also that the Minister got this portfolio, with her true passion.

I say this as someone who is a genuine statistic of the one in four people with mental health: do you agree with me that, actually, it's four in four people who have mental health and, some days, mine's worse than yours, and vice versa, and that's an issue we have to address, and there are levels of service, as you suggested, that need to get better and more accessible? There's a level of service, as John Griffiths suggested, with Newport County—a fantastic club—but also there's a service we do to each other, and the Member has picked me up on my terrible days, when I did not want to focus on the day, with a simple bear hug and a cwtsh. That is just as important. Do you agree with that?