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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Cancer services
Well, I wasn't, but thank you.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Cancer services
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. The diagnosis of cancer is the most devastating news ever, and I should know—and I'll declare an interest because I've just recently witnessed with one of my own nearest and dearest having received that horrendous news—and I would like…
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Debate: Natural Resources Wales's 'Case for Change'
—to attend the meeting here in person. Diolch yn fawr.
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Debate: Natural Resources Wales's 'Case for Change'
I will do. The last scrutiny of NRW in our committee was poor, to say the least. All the officers had come online, saying they couldn’t afford the petrol to attend an in-person meeting. Telephones were going off in the background, there was a dog barking on…
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Debate: Natural Resources Wales's 'Case for Change'
The decision by Natural Resources Wales—we are on this debate, yes? I thought we were—to reduce services and staffing is deeply worrying for both the Welsh environment and the goal of achieving net zero. How many times have we stood up here and discussed NRW…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
The decision, of course, by the Welsh Government to increase the tuition fee cap for Welsh universities for full-time undergraduate degrees does raise significant concerns about the sustainability of higher education in Wales. Whilst the Government claims…
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Legislative Consent Motion: The Water (Special Measures) Bill
We will be supporting this legislative consent motion today. As is noted in the explanatory notes, the Bill seeks to ensure water companies are better held to account where they have failed to deliver for the environment and customers. More accountability is…
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Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Water interruption in Conwy
Well said.
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Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Water interruption in Conwy
It's not enough.
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Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Water interruption in Conwy
I thought this was a 45-minute debate.
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Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Water interruption in Conwy
[Inaudible.]
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Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Water interruption in Conwy
We didn't hear of it.
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Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Water interruption in Conwy
Yes, okay. But, very, very disappointed. We now know that the north-south divide exists.
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Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Water interruption in Conwy
Well, you can understand I'm very, very upset.
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Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Water interruption in Conwy
Yes. We've now got pollution incidents, Darren, as of today, in your constituency and mine—there's all this overspill now causing lots of pollution. This was an unmitigated disaster. It cannot be allowed to happen again. Minister, I'll just say this: I was…
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Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Water interruption in Conwy
—can get £345,000 and other packages making £0.5 million, it is an insult to offer my businesses £75 for 12 hours. We're still seeing—
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Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Water interruption in Conwy
Thank you for bringing your statement here today. I have to say that I genuinely believe that you mean well by reading out that statement, but you have to understand the severity of what happened. I know that we were all shocked by COVID, and that progressed…
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Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Restoring nature in Wales
—to declare a nature emergency, we continue to see our species in decline. What steps are you really taking, Cabinet Secretary, to ensure—[Interruption.]—in terms of statistics and in terms of numbers, that real action is taken to stop the decline of our…
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Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Restoring nature in Wales
Despite various policies, soundbites and statements from here, it's fair to say that the strategies and legislation delays have caused insufficient actions, and these are now hindering Wales's biodiversity restoration commitments. The Environment (Wales) Act…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Establishment of a school of dentistry in Bangor
We're all aware of the issues facing Welsh dentistry. I've been here 13 years, and I have to say, it has gone significantly worse in the 13 years that we've been talking about it; it has carried on spiralling. Trying to find an NHS dentist appointment has…
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Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill on pet abduction
The Welsh Government need to get on with this now and they need to legislate against pet abduction. Diolch.
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Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill on pet abduction
Now, I will say, leaving here yesterday, there was a dog tied up outside the local Sainsbury’s here and I would urge any pet owner, dog owner in particular, not to leave your pets where you are asking for trouble, because this dog was ever so friendly and…
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Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill on pet abduction
Thank you, Carolyn, for bringing this to our Chamber. It’s so important. Currently, pet theft in Wales is treated as a property crime under the Theft Act 1968, and that equates a stolen pet, a stolen member of your family, to an inanimate object like a…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
—and know who they need to actually—who could be supporting them.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Over 50,000 old people in Wales are lonely. Projections show that there will be a 50 per cent increase by 2030 in the number of people over 50 experiencing this. Many feel isolated in their communities due to poor public transport, unsafe pavements…
