4. Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: The Housing-with-Care Fund

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:28 pm on 17 May 2022.

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Photo of Carolyn Thomas Carolyn Thomas Labour 3:28, 17 May 2022

Minister, very often with these announcements, you can't put them into reality until you actually visit a facility, I think, and I visited Marleyfield House in Buckley last year. The capacity has doubled and been designed with reablement in mind, so patients can leave hospital, build up strength before moving on to their own home. It's fantastic. Each room has balconies overlooking Hope mountain, there are dementia-friendly walks, and the mature trees have also been incorporated into the landscape. It's got 54 solar panels, a part-natural green roof, and surface water drains into a pond, creating an area of biodiversity as well, which is absolutely fantastic to see. Minister, would you visit this facility with me so you can actually see the difference Welsh Government funding, working with the council funding—it's a council care home, by the way, as well—and Betsi Cadwaladr, who have actually funded the revenue funding of running it in the future, is having, so you can see that package working collaboratively and what it can achieve, and how it actually relieves pressure on the NHS, which we were debating last week? Thank you.