30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
I think you've covered a lot of it, but if there's anything you want to add about the approach to the environmental principles, which you've talked about, but in the absence of legislation.
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
Good morning, all—just about. Anyway, I want to look at the national site network, but I also want to make a comment on the previous one: just that I can't see the sea mentioned in it; it's all land-based again. So, I'll make that comment, and I'm sure others…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 6 - climate change and flooding
A lot of what I was going to ask has already been answered in some ways, but it is about the current adaptation plan that Jeremy started, and why that next plan should focus on the IPCC's findings. But I particularly want to ask Anne, who mentioned blue…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 6 - climate change and flooding
Good morning, everybody. I'd like to know your views on the extent to which the Welsh Government is assessing the carbon impact of its spend and investment decisions and where you think it might need further work.
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 5 - climate change
The climate adaptation plan—the current adaptation plan, and what the next one should be focusing on, given the IPCC's findings.
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 5 - climate change
Good morning. I want to look at, and have your views on, the extent to which Welsh Government is assessing the carbon impact of its spending, and also investments. And you touched on this, Lord Deben, when you said that investments are rightly focused in this…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
I need to declare that I'm a member of the RSPB.
29 September 2021 , Plenary
Topical Questions
Thank you, Minister, and I thank you, Llywydd, for accepting my question. As you noted in your written statement yesterday, Minister, it is with great sadness that you should have to issue another statement because another young woman has lost her life. Her…
29 September 2021 , Plenary
Topical Questions
2. What is the Welsh Government doing to address women's safety in public places? TQ568
29 September 2021 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you, Minister. One of the frustrations many parents have raised with regard to children and young people's mental health is accessing the right service, and that was highlighted in the Children's Commissioner for Wales report, 'No Wrong Door'. And it…
29 September 2021 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
7. What action is the Welsh Government taking to support children and young people's mental health? OQ56911
29 September 2021 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Minister, I'd like to highlight the £68 million investment that Welsh Government has made into the primary and community health services in Hywel Dda health board area in recent years, and also highlight that the integrated care centres in Aberaeron…
29 September 2021 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
Minister, I'd like to welcome the £5 million investment from the Welsh Government's European agricultural fund for rural development for a milk bottling centre in my home town of Haverfordwest. Once completed, that will have the capacity to bottle milk that…
28 September 2021 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Environment Bill
I wish I shared that enthusiasm, but I don’t. I know it’s very damp outside and I don’t want to bring a dampener into this realm, but anyway, as a member of consecutive Senedd environment committees, I’ve been across scrutiny of the Bill and it has been…
28 September 2021 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for that. It's bad enough that this is an enforced tax rise on working people in Wales, but it mustn't be a financial and administrative burden on our public services as well. So, what discussions has your administration had with the Westminster…
28 September 2021 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
7. What assessment has the Welsh Government undertaken of the impact of the planned national insurance rises on the public sector in Wales? OQ56934
23 September 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Diolch. In May 2018, the Welsh Government did give £27 million in additional recurrent funding for Hywel Dda University Health Board, and the Minister at the time then said it would place it on a fair funding basis with other health boards, and yet it seems…
23 September 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Thank you. You anticipated my last question, which was on low pay. So, thank you.
23 September 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Thank you for that. Of course, lots of local health boards have their own specialist services where they have supported their staff, and I know that Hywel Dda particularly have done really well in this space and I want to pay tribute to those. But moving on…
23 September 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Diolch. I'm going to ask questions around the sustainability of the health and care workforce, which, really, is at the heart of everything, and there are three areas that I'm going to explore. The first one is the investment in education and training of…
23 September 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Not on this, no.
23 September 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
If I can just have a follow-through on that. Clearly, if people have got long COVID, there will be differentials in need, like there is with everything. And potentially, there's a differential in equipping people to go home, to make sure that they're going to…
23 September 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
My next question is linked to exactly the same. Of course, long COVID could have an impact, and may have an impact, on staffing levels, particularly in social care services. Is there any evidence that that is the case? And, if there is evidence that that is…
23 September 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Thank you, and good morning, everyone. The Minister's paper provides an update on support for people with long COVID, and that includes the establishment of a recovery programme and guidance for the management of long COVID. My question is: how will that work…
23 September 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
COVID-19: update on current situation from the Chief Medical Officer for Wales, Chief Scientific Adviser for Health and the Welsh Government's Technical Advisory Cell
And my final question is going to be: have you looked at the way other countries have managed their public health issues arising out of COVID, and their messaging, to try and keep people on board? Because what ultimately has been said so far is right; most…
