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Speeches and questions in Plenary and in committees, newest first. The Llywydd's and deputies' chairing of Plenary is left out.

1,994 speeches and questions

9 December 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
I'm fine with that. You said June, didn't you? So, we can look forward to a report in June.
9 December 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Thank you. I notice, if I can, Chair, you said 'restore or maintain condition', but, obviously, if—. Should it not be the case that we go beyond restoration to where we are now to where we need to be? Because I hear this language quite often about, 'We'll…
9 December 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
I want to talk about MPAs—marine protected areas—and, particularly, I want to ask for an update on any development of the new reporting indicators for those and what the next steps are for assessing them. I note in your paper that the last report was in 2018…
9 December 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Yes. Just that this raises whole areas of concern—it's a red flag really—that we might start allowing and giving permission on an unknown. And that's what I think we would all be concerned about here. And, also, I'll come to it later, but nonetheless, you…
9 December 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Thank you. Will yesterday's written statement make any difference to anything you've just said?
9 December 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Marine environment management - evidence session 1: Natural Resources Wales
Good morning, everybody. You talked about Lee Waters's statement and the deep dive that he issued yesterday at midday, so needless to say we haven't interrogated that yet. But we're interested in the consenting process for offshore renewable energy projects…
9 December 2021Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Just to say I'm a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
7 December 2021Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
In October this year, Mark Hankinson, who was the director of the Masters of Foxhounds Association, was convicted of encouraging illegal fox hunting. He was caught on camera advising hunts on how to break the 2004 Hunting Act. He exposed what many believe to…
2 December 2021Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing the patient's voice
If I can, one other question to all of you is the financial burden that people are facing on their day-to-day management of the budgets that they have, especially people who’ve suddenly had to give up work, perhaps, to care for somebody. They’re not all in a…
2 December 2021Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing the patient's voice
Is there a risk that people are starting to feel abandoned by the NHS, by their local health board, by the Welsh Government?
2 December 2021Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing the patient's voice
Of course the pandemic has created a reprioritisation of health services and that in itself has probably had an impact, with people living with long-term health conditions like diabetes, which has been briefly mentioned. But what is the impact really of that…
2 December 2021Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing the patient's voice
I think my next question, you've sort of answered it from the carers side, if the carer becomes ill waiting for diagnostics and treatment, but if it's the other way around, the implications on the carer's ability to go about their daily life, because a lot of…
2 December 2021Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing the patient's voice
My questions are around the support for families and carers, but my first one is about the ability, for families and carers, to support those people who are waiting long term, and not really knowing how long that wait might be, and whether you think that…
2 December 2021Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing the patient's voice
Right, I am unmuted.
2 December 2021Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing people with different health conditions
And my final question is—and probably Mary might answer, we'll wait and see, more than others: we've heard from the royal college of GPs that long NHS waiting lists are driving people into paying for private treatment, and I'd just be interested to hear from…
2 December 2021Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing people with different health conditions
Thank you, and thanks for highlighting good practice in my area. It’s always welcome.
2 December 2021Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing people with different health conditions
A final set of questions—lots of them have already been answered, so if you’ve got anything else to add about the importance of patients being informed about what’s happening with their appointments, their treatment, and the advice and information, whether…
2 December 2021Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing people with different health conditions
Thank you. Thank you very much.
2 December 2021Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing people with different health conditions
And finally from me: do you have enough confidence in the Welsh Government and also the local health boards in terms of the investment that they're putting in to sufficiently cover the recovery and the cardiovascular services in terms of the needs that you've…
2 December 2021Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing people with different health conditions
Absolutely. And if you’ve got details—with your permission, Chair—about the case study that you did in Scotland and the information, that might be useful to us to look at it. Of course, there’s a backlog, you’ve just talked about it, and with a backlog there…
2 December 2021Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing people with different health conditions
Yes, support for people who have a treatable condition, they're on a waiting list, they're getting anxious, which isn't a good thing if you've a heart problem anyway and, of course, could lead on, potentially, to a stroke or other factors running alongside it.
2 December 2021Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing people with different health conditions
That was my follow-through question, so it's good. So, you’d like to see it. We’d like to see it. I was going to ask you where you think it is. How bad is it, in other words, or how good is it? Are there variations?
2 December 2021Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing people with different health conditions
Yes, I'm moving on now, and my questions are to the British Heart Foundation and much along the same lines, but being sector specific, if I can put it that way—health specific, I suppose. What are the lengths of the delays for heart procedures and surgery and…
2 December 2021Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with organisations representing people with different health conditions
Thank you, Chair. I just want to come in on joining up those pieces. We did hear early on from physiotherapists and pain managers, and it would be worth you giving us a little bit more detail on how those are joining up and how they are connecting in your…
2 December 2021Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with Wales Cancer Alliance
Thank you. Thank you very much.