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Updates to previous petitions
Thank you. Right, if we move on now to 3.6, petition P-06-1547, 'Sea bottom trawling is killing our marine wildlife...Stop bulldozing our marine wildlife!' This was submitted by Robert Curtis with 297 signatures. I remember watching the film Ocean, and it was…
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Thank you very much, and then we can close it.
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Okay, anybody else like to come in? So, Altaf, you proposed writing to the chair of the Food Standards Agency, was that, for comments regarding it? I couldn't hear that quite so well.
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Yes, that's a good point, Altaf.
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I did see quite a few doctors going back and to. But, anyway, there we go, we've had a good airing of this and there's lots to be done. I'm sure it will be part of the groups' manifestos going forward and will probably get very political unfortunately as…
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I think we've had a really good discussion on this. Altaf, did you want to come in again?
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Can I just say that every one of those—? There were a lot of beds in the corridor going a long way back, and they were all elderly, but they were there for x-rays because they'd had falls or different things like that, as well as just checks. There was…
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Every one of those—. Sorry, I didn't mention—
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Thank you, Altaf. We did have a petition—petition 1350, which was to reopen the Dyfi ward at Tywyn Hospital, and we've had an e-mail from them in light of this petition coming forward. There were 16 in-patient beds, and they've remained closed. And I remember…
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Thank you. And could I bring in Altaf as well, please?
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Vaughan.
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Okay. Would anybody else like to comment? Okay. So, yes, congratulations to the petitioner, and we will close the petition. Thank you. So, we move on to 3.4, which is petition P-06-1534, ‘End corridor care in Wales’, and it reads: 'In Wales, patients are…
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Yes.
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Okay. Does anybody else want to come in? Okay. So, for action, we will write to the Cabinet Secretary to ask if she would meet with the petitioners. I could meet with them as well as Chair of the Petitions Committee if you'd like, offer that, and then close…
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And closing it. Okay? And Altaf just nodded in agreement. Okay, thank you. If we move on now to 3.2, P-06-1491, 'We demand a fair deal for residents affected by the Arbed and CESP scheme'. And this was submitted by Rhiannon Goodall with 333 signatures. Sorry…
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Anybody else like to speak on this? Is it not unreasonable for the committee to write to the Minister, though, requesting a timeline for when the rapid response vehicles will be fully operational and when the bases will close, just to—? Because that was a…
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Thank you, Altaf. Would anybody else like to come in? Yes, Vaughan.
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We'll move on now to updates to previous petitions. We've got item 3.1, P-06-1456, 'I demand a full public enquiry into the closure of Welsh Air Ambulance bases in mid and North Wales'. This was submitted by Karl Ciz, with 10,437 signatures, and we had a…
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Yes. Okay, are we okay with those recommendations? Thank you very much. Thank you for attending.
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New Petitions
The other thing that was raised with me is that we receive letters in English and Welsh, and perhaps there are people for whom it's not their first language, English or Welsh, and the fact that it's just a letter as well. If I have a dental appointment, I get…
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New Petitions
Yes.
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New Petitions
When I talked with Sheila earlier from Anglesey, from Ynys Môn, she was saying that the test centre is in Holyhead, which is the far end, so perhaps if there was a mobile unit that could go to Llangefni and to Menai Bridge—maybe that would be it. But it's…
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I heard from Matthew, who earlier said that, usually, if people go the first time they will continue to go for their breast cancer screening, which is offered every three years, so it's getting them there in the first place to do it that is difficult. Rhys…
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Thank you. Would anybody else like to come in at this stage? Vaughan.
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New Petitions
I remember when my children were doing their Welsh bac and Duke of Edinburgh and all that—all these things will add extras to your curriculum vitae when applying for university was the thought. Maybe it's quite difficult to keep delivering it for schools and…
