, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and social care workforce: evidence session with Health Education and Improvement Wales and Social Care Wales
Well, thank you. I'll have to take—
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and social care workforce: evidence session with Health Education and Improvement Wales and Social Care Wales
Good morning, everybody. I'm going to ask questions around recruitment and retention, which is probably where the real question lies at the moment, reading your papers anyway, and the evidence that you've outlined that you're using to identify priority…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Thank you, Mr Elias. The other side of staff welfare, of course, is looking after their mental health. There must have been, I can only imagine, significant trauma for the staff working in that area, as well as those people who have clearly said that they…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Did you call me?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Thank you.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Good, and, of course, this is all because—our questions are related to the fact that you've been there a very short time, and we understand and recognise that. We know that governance is about vision, strategy, leadership, probity and ethics, as well as…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Post appointment scrutiny session with the interim chair, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Good morning, Mr Elias. And I'm sure everybody will join me in asking you to pass on our extreme thanks to the workforce for everything they've done and will continue to do to keep us all safe and well. I just wanted to start there. Moving, of course, on from…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Implementation of net zero carbon and the 21st century schools and colleges programme
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I certainly welcome this announcement today. I think you're right to put education at the forefront of environmental sustainability, because it's a generational change that's needed. There are examples of children being very much…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Prif Weinidog. Buildings account for just under a quarter of UK greenhouse gas emissions, most of which come from fossil fuel heating. So, tackling climate change really does begin at home. Your Government is leading the way, with today's announcement…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
2. What action is the Welsh Government taking to achieve a net-zero Wales? OQ57124
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: The Health and Social Care Winter Protection Plan 2021-22
—an opportunity for career progression. So, my question is this, Minister: will you look at the outcomes of that bridging scheme and see if it can be replicated across Wales?
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: The Health and Social Care Winter Protection Plan 2021-22
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I want to welcome your statement, and of course the briefing that I attended this morning with Dr Andrew Goodall. I'm particularly pleased to see that this is a joint plan. It's not just about health; it's about health and social care…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Protection of the marine environment is something that I've been championing for many, many years, and one particular issue that I've raised in the Chamber on a number of occasions is the reintroduction of scallop dredging in a small area of Cardigan bay, a…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Nature, biodiversity and local places for nature
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm going to ask a question—one question—and it's about monitoring. The only reason that we all know that nature has declined is because of the longitudinal studies that have taken place that tell us that. And I welcome, obviously, all…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Diolch, Llywydd. Trefnydd, could we have a statement, and I think the Minister for Social Justice is best placed to speak on it, on the very urgent need to make public sexual harassment a specific criminal offence in England and Wales? I referred to it in my…
, Plenary
The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations 2021
I've no idea. But what I do know is, for the event to go ahead, the people who wanted to take part in it had to have a COVID pass. That’s what I do know, and that’s the point that’s being made here. That point is actually irrelevant, as far as I can see. So…
, Plenary
The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations 2021
So, it's not a step too far. I will, yes.
, Plenary
The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations 2021
I will be voting in support of introducing the COVID pass, and I want to repeat that: it is a COVID pass. It isn't a vaccination certificate, it isn't any of these elaborate names that it's been given today, and it's almost like, somehow, we've been talking…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I think it’s important to note that take-up across all demographic groups remains incredibly high, despite anti-vaxxers making a lot of noise, but remaining in a tiny minority. But we need to move on. We’ve seen lots of good work, as you say, in terms of…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
7. What is the Welsh Government doing to encourage coronavirus vaccine take-up? OQ56978
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Chair Designate of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICW)
You talk about infrastructure, obviously, in terms of targeting infrastructure, but there are other infrastructures that would do the opposite to what you've said that you'd have to look at more positively, like broadband—I'll give that as an example—and…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Chair Designate of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICW)
There were concerns raised in the fifth Senedd's Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee—and I was part of that—on the functioning of NICWs lack of strategic direction and purpose, transparency and resources. So, how are those going to be addressed? And…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Yes. We've gone, quite rightly, to the green agenda or skills, but nonetheless, we'll have to build more houses and other such things, and we'll have to build them—the hard infrastructure—in accordance with meeting our targets. So, I don't know if any of you…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Okay. I suppose this follows on quite nicely, really, from where Jerry just left off, and if you could give any practical examples of nature-based solutions and how they in turn then will help drive the green economy recovery.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
I have two: one as a member of the RSPB and the other as a Woodland Trust member.
