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Welsh Conservatives Debate: A&E department performance data
—is getting in the way of the actual statistics that we need, or whether it's an excuse for defensive medicine.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: A&E department performance data
They didn't raise it in this important meeting, which I find really interesting, where they talked about the need for one consultant per 4,000, and the fact that, on average, we have over 7,500 patients per consultant, with the best emergency department…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: A&E department performance data
We're not talking about that; we're talking about the way in which we are managing our emergency department. I attended the event organised by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine that took place in the Senedd back in January. Eluned Morgan was there, as…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: A&E department performance data
I beg your pardon, we're talking—[Interruption.]
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: A&E department performance data
Thank you. Obviously, there needs to be an observation bay or an observation department. If there is a clinical decision that somebody needs—. The second category of person who should not be moved is somebody who needs a short period of intensive…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: A&E department performance data
Thank you. Picking up on what Altaf was saying, if you have ambulances queuing up outside emergency departments as happened last week, you clearly need to ensure that the hospital beds that we have are reserved for the people who need secondary care. That…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: A&E department performance data
Why?
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Welsh Housing Quality Standard 2023
Thank you. I very much welcome your statement and the ambition of it to ensure that everybody is living in a warm home who's living in social housing. Of course, people living in social housing are privileged compared with people living in private rented…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: Update on Criminal Justice Blueprints
Thank you very much. And thank you, Minister, for pursuing this issue like a dog with a bone. I can see your passion and your determination to succeed where other Governments have failed, actually, because the Corston report was published in 2007 and we are…
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Statement by the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language: Attendance Guidance
It’s good to be following Jayne Bryant, because I know the children and young people’s committee have done a lot of work on this. I very much welcome your statement. I think it’s fully comprehensive; I think it deals with the complexity of this issue. You’ve…
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Questions to the First Minister
Well, that's good to know, but we know, from many inspection reports, that the prison estate is full and completely incapable of carrying out its task of both rehabilitating people as well as punishing them. The women's justice blueprint has identified that…
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Questions to the First Minister
10. Will the First Minister provide an update on the state of the prison service in Wales? OQ60176
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Motion under Standing Orders 17.42(vi) and (ix) to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting
I'm now going to ask you to agree to exclude the public for the remainder of today's meeting. The next public meeting will be on 6 November.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Papers to note
There are four bits of correspondence to note, three relating to our inquiry on gender-based violence and one relating to data justice. Are Members happy to note those four documents? Thank you very much.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Prynhawn da. Welcome to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. I've had apologies from Sarah Murphy, otherwise all Members are present.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. Because I think it would be good if the Bill stopped Ministers just shoving things into the long grass because it's politically inconvenient.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Just on the timescales, as we've got five minutes. You made a very good case for why there should be a bit of flexibility on the examination period if, force majeure, you know, a partner goes bust, or needs replacing. What about the other periods, the idea…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Well—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Except that we've heard evidence that it has worked well in England, with the Planning Act 2008.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Taking the Wylfa example, surely if they'd done all the spade work in the pre-application stage they'd have realised that it was a more complicated process and therefore it would still be possible to keep to the six months, three months, three months.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Would that obligation also apply to any changes to the regulations, the infrastructure?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, I just wanted to go back to the obligation to submit three copies by fax, and the way in which the community will ensure that when they’re looking at an application, they are seeing it in its latest iteration. Because I’ve heard stakeholders saying that…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. My last question was to do with whether applicants can opt in to the SIP regime, and I think you've already answered that.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. That's clear enough for me. Just going back to the porous border with England, RenewableUK Cymru and Solar Energy UK—obviously big players in this field—are pointing out that they think that the 50 MW threshold should be measured using—I'm applying…
