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Questions to the First Minister
You didn't give us a straight answer. I asked you for a 'yes' or 'no': are you going to raise taxes or not? You then went on to talk about the record—the so-called record—of the Labour Government in Westminster, which has saddled us with higher taxes, higher…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Llywydd. First Minister, in January, just last month, your Government used its deal with Plaid Cymru to push through a budget that keeps Wales as one of the highest tax parts of this United Kingdom. For over a quarter of a century, your party has…
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Debate: The Final Budget 2026-27
Why don't you make an intervention?
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Questions to the First Minister
You talk about the importance of jobs, and I agree with you, jobs are important, but you're failing on that front, aren't you? We've got the highest unemployment in the United Kingdom. It's gone up by almost 60 per cent since the UK Labour Government was…
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Questions to the First Minister
You didn't answer my question, but that's not surprising, because it's the same every single week. You have claimed that demanding more powers from the UK Government is a way to neutralise the threat of the break-up of the UK. But, in reality, you're simply…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Llywydd. Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, of course, when we come together to commemorate the lives of the 6 million innocent men, women and children who were murdered simply because they were Jewish. At a time when the scourge of antisemitism, I'm…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
So, can I just get this right? You refuse to acknowledge there's a crisis, right? If you don't think that something's broken, you're never going to come up with a plan to fix it. You blame this on money, so why make the promise in the first place if you say…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Well, you didn't answer the question that I put to you, which was: is this symptomatic of an NHS that is in crisis? I believe that it is. I believe that the Welsh NHS isn't working properly. It certainly didn't work properly for Iris, and we all have examples…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Cabinet Secretary, just last month, a 90-year-old woman from Wyesham in Monmouthshire, Iris Morgan, waited for more than 32 hours for an ambulance after breaking her hip while at home. During that time, she became increasingly delirious, she developed a…
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Questions to the First Minister
You say that you spend 12 per cent more per patient in Wales than over the border in England, but you receive from the UK Government, via the block grant, 20 per cent more, and you choose not to invest that into our health service. Now, one of the other…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for that answer, First Minister, but plans that are sat on shelves gathering dust don't make a difference on the ground. As you and I both know, timely treatment is really important for patients to ensure the best possible outcome for them if…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Llywydd. First Minister, what action is the Welsh Government taking to ensure that cancer patients in Wales can have timely access to treatment that they need?
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Business Statement and Announcement
Can I call for a statement, Trefnydd, from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care on access to PET scans and CT scans for patients in north Wales? I've been alerted by constituents to the fact that the contract that was in place with a third party…
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Questions to the First Minister
Yet more claptrap and flannel from the First Minister of Wales. We've got unemployment up since Labour came to power, and we've had energy prices rising as well at well above the rate of inflation. The reality, First Minister, is very clear for everybody to…
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Questions to the First Minister
You've got the audacity to crow about your record on housing when it is absolutely dismal. The last time the Conservatives were responsible for house building in Wales, we were building housing at twice the rate that the Welsh Government currently is. That's…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch yn fawr. First Minister, at the turn of the century, six out of every 10 25 to 34-year-olds owned their own home. But, since then, levels of home ownership amongst that age group have fallen dramatically by a third. Your Welsh Labour Government, with…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Brexit and the future relationship with the EU
Can I—? I'd like to put this straight, if I may make an intervention. I'm an Irish citizen. My mother is Irish. Three of my grandparents are Irish. I know you seem to be wanting to discriminate against me on the basis of my Irishness, but I have held an Irish…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Brexit and the future relationship with the EU
I'm proud to be an Irish citizen, as well as a British citizen, and I'm proud to be Welsh as well. You made reference to not one benefit coming. Don't you accept that there are people alive in Wales today—including in your constituency, which, by the way…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Brexit and the future relationship with the EU
Will you take an intervention just on polling?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Brexit and the future relationship with the EU
Look, I'm pro-European, but I'm not pro-European Union, and I have to say you've identified two failures—the economic failure that we've seen in Wales and the child poverty progress that we haven't made in Wales. They're failures of this clapped-out Welsh…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Brexit and the future relationship with the EU
Yet you want to dismantle that successful union that works for Wales and has worked for many centuries for Wales, and not to achieve an independent Wales, as you often claim—I'll take your intervention in a moment—but to shackle Wales instead to a far more…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Brexit and the future relationship with the EU
I made it clear that I wanted to leave the single market, and it was said by the detractors of Brexit that if you do that, you’ll leave the single market. So, frankly, I’m not sure what you’re going on about. I’m amazed that Plaid Cymru have the audacity to…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Brexit and the future relationship with the EU
Diolch, Llywydd. I move the amendment on the order paper in the name of Paul Davies. Can I begin by saying that this Friday for me is a celebration of democracy? Because in leaving the European Union, the previous UK Conservative Government honoured the…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Cabinet Secretary, you'll always get Members on this side of the Chamber celebrating thrift and efficiency, and we welcome the invest-to-save scheme, and always have. You gave an indication as to the total investments that have been made, but what you haven't…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
I listened very carefully to your response about the resources for children with additional learning needs. One of the concerns that's been raised with me in north Wales is, of course, the waiting times for neurodevelopmental assessments. We know from…
