, Health and Social Care Committee
Impact of waiting times backlog on people who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment: evidence session with primary care organisations
Good morning, everybody. And it's great to hear that Hywel Dda are doing this pilot, especially since I live in Pembrokeshire. But we've been talking, as a Government and Members—both—for a very long time about using community pharmacies. I use them an awful…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
I want to declare that a close family member is a member of the Royal College of Nursing.
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: The Young Person’s Guarantee
Thank you, Minister, for your statement. Young people across Wales, it's been said many times today, indeed across the UK, have been one of the hardest hit groups as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and three fifths of jobs that were lost as a result of the…
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Statement by the Minister for Rural Affairs, North Wales, and Trefnydd: The Bovine TB Eradication Programme
Thank you for your annual update, Minister. As the chief veterinary officer notes in the foreword to the consultation document, the eradication programme was always a long road and the long-term trends remain positive. We've allowed the science to navigate…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank you for that answer, First Minister. Tomorrow marks World Prematurity Day, when we turn our thoughts and our focus to premature birth, which, sadly, sometimes has an overwhelming impact on families. I know that this is something your Government has…
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Questions to the First Minister
8. What is the Welsh Government doing to support neonatal parents? OQ57209
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate adaptation
Coming back to and finishing or rounding off Huw's question about consultation, we live in a world where if you don't give people the message they want to hear, they express their unhappiness in very different ways, sometimes pleasantly and sometimes not so…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate adaptation
My other interest is the marine plant life and how you balance that with your fishing policies, particularly, because, clearly, if you're trawling the ground—the sea bed—you're going to also damage anything that grows within that sea bed and all the habitat…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate adaptation
Can I ask one final—?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate adaptation
Thank you. I only have to look out the back garden to see that I've got cosmos in full bloom, and they should have bloomed at least six weeks ago. So, in those terms, the soil, conservation, will also come into play, because the soil will have changed if it's…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate adaptation
First of all, I have to apologise, but I had to be somewhere. I had to take my husband to an appointment, and that was out of my control, so that's why I wasn't here, because I wouldn't be so rude as not to be here if I could have been. I did catch quite a…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Spiking
The spiking of drinks is not new. I had my own drink spiked in 1982. That was 39 years ago and it's a very frightening experience, and it's one that stays with you for life. In the case of my drink, I was in a friend's pub. I was a licensee myself. I'd…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Thank you, Minister, for that answer, and I do welcome the Welsh Government's commitment to putting sustainability at the forefront of education policies and their commitment to closely involving pupils in designing their learning environment. I had the…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
2. How are the Minister's education policies contributing to the Welsh Government's net-zero target? OQ57157
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 19) Regulations 2021
The point is this, okay? It seems to me that you have a problem—that you don't trust people to take a lateral flow test and give their own result. It seems to me that you can't trust people. Well, we are prepared to trust people here to do the right thing…
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 19) Regulations 2021
That wasn't an intervention, that was an attempt to take over my time.
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 19) Regulations 2021
No, I'll take this one over here. [Laughter.]
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 19) Regulations 2021
I've heard a lot about absence of evidence is not evidence in itself, but where there is evidence of absence, that is evidence in itself. So, if you have a lateral flow test, it is proof of absence of COVID. So, I just want to turn that on its head and maybe…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank you for that answer, First Minister. Wales has traditionally provided disproportionate support to our armed forces, and that commitment and sacrifice needs to be honoured, especially this coming Remembrance Week. That is why your Government's…
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Questions to the First Minister
7. What is the Welsh Government doing to support serving and ex-service personnel? OQ57159
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and social care workforce: evidence session with Health Education and Improvement Wales and Social Care Wales
Final question, Chair, on equality. There have been under-represented groups identified, and do we have the data that supports the fact that there are gaps there? Also, in terms of equality, how have you looked at flexible working, flexible opportunities for…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and social care workforce: evidence session with Health Education and Improvement Wales and Social Care Wales
Sarah's got her hand up.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and social care workforce: evidence session with Health Education and Improvement Wales and Social Care Wales
Of course, there is an immediate crisis in social care—there's no denying that by any of us in this room. So, have you got specific action plans, beyond the ones that you've mentioned—which are great—to try and do something to help with that right now?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and social care workforce: evidence session with Health Education and Improvement Wales and Social Care Wales
As a service, but also about training, because we're talking about recruitment and retention here. We're hearing about people’s experience not necessarily being a good one, which, probably, I suspect, is playing its part in trying to recruit.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and social care workforce: evidence session with Health Education and Improvement Wales and Social Care Wales
Thank you. That it really good and, of course, you’ve identified the fact that there are more than 2,000 employers in the care sector, but we’re also hearing that people are leaving the care sector and then not re-entering the care sector at all, despite all…
