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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with organisations supporting children in care
There will be a question on duties on sexual abuse, but we can come back to that if there's time, or we'll come back in a letter.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with organisations supporting children in care
Yes, that's fine. I'm trying to decide which to ask now, I'm afraid. I'll go back to the children's commissioner's evidence, which said that this was a missed opportunity, in truth, in addressing the priorities and concerns that children and young people, and…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with organisations supporting children in care
Thank you. I'm going to ask in Welsh. If I can go back to one point, as a starting point, every one of you has mentioned, and previous witnesses have mentioned, that we need more time before the introduction of the Act, in order to prepare. How much…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with young people from Voices from Care
Thanks. I'm going to ask my questions in Welsh. We've touched there on what makes a poor placement, perhaps, if you're not put with your siblings or if you're a long way from home. What, therefore, makes a good placement, in your opinion?
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
I will declare that my wife works for the National Youth Advocacy Service charity, which is part of this sector.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
Can you explain why the Labour Party has rowed back on the promise to devolve policing and justice?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
Will you take an intervention?
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
Yes. So, the Labour Party in London are diluting what you've promised here.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
You know the three things you've just mentioned there now, you do realise that it's a dilution of what the Government here and what Labour in Wales have promised. So, it's not really at the level where you, as a party, would want to see it. The Labour Party…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
There's no doubt that the situation with teacher numbers is critical, particularly so in the Welsh-medium sector, where the situation is even worse. The fact that Aberystwyth University has decided not to continue with its teacher training course is only…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
That response from the Cabinet Secretary demonstrates that the Government is looking to meet some of people's physical needs, but people have cultural needs and social needs and other needs too. Of course, the easiest way of ensuring that all these needs of…
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Short Debate: Safer skin: The role of schools in preventing skin cancer
Thank you very much, Sioned, for bringing this debate forward. It was very interesting to hear the recommendations on how much sunscreen to apply. My children will be very pleased to hear that, because we tend to lather them with too much and they look like…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
With their disastrous hard Brexit that sent drug prices soaring, a cruel migration policy that's compounded workforce pressures, squandering billions on defective, crony-supplied PPE, a prolonged real-terms erosion in NHS pay and 14 years of austerity that…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: NHS waiting lists
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lwydd. Earlier this year, of course, we marked 75 years since the establishment of our national health service, the greatest sociopolitical success of the twentieth century and one that is rooted here in Wales. But following 25…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Dentistry training
I thank Siân Gwenllian for bringing forward this important and timely debate before the Senedd today. I do note, and it is interesting to note, that Keir Starmer has been campaigning quite a lot on dentistry, referring very often to a visit that he made to…
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90-second Statements
This year marks 150 years since the creation of the North Wales Quarrymen's Union, an event that was very significant in our history as a nation. It's also 150 years since the lockout at the Dinorwig quarry. The union was established in the Queen's Head pub…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
A surprising response again from the Cabinet Secretary. Might I remind her that we're not in Government and she is in Government and you're in charge of health here? The cuts will come with you having to carry them out. The most frustrating aspect of this…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
The Cabinet Secretary sounds like someone from the Conservative Government in London when she speaks here. Of course, the consequences of Starmer's vision for public services is that the incoming UK Labour Government will fall into the same trap this…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Diolch, Llywydd. Well, an interesting response there by the Cabinet Secretary at the end. As we've long suspected, however, the incoming Labour Government's embrace of Tory designated fiscal rules and a refusal to countenance progressive tax-raising measures…
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Questions to the First Minister
Mike Hedges is quite right to point out the importance of foreign workers in the care sector. Mike referred to people from Guyana and Trinidad, for example; I am aware of a number of people from Nigeria working in north Wales at the moment and appreciate the…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
Not on this point. Unless somebody else wants to come in on that point, I'll go to my final question, if that's okay. Okay. In terms of the Bill, the explanatory memorandum says that the Welsh Government is proposing to develop a central hub to create a pool…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
Thank you. I'm just thinking now, would it be a help if you could confirm, perhaps in a letter, or that ADSS could confirm how they came to that exact figure? It would help us to understand the rationale and give that figure credence. And next, ADSS once…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
Thank you very much, Chair. Welsh Government, in doing this, has based its calculations on an estimate by ADSS that a maximum of five people per local authority will transfer from local authority care to continuing healthcare during the first three years…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
Thank you, Chair. I'm pleased that Councillor Andrew Morgan has made that last point, and I'm thankful for it. Having got my mind to work, we see at the moment that some local authorities are paying a continuing healthcare sum of some amount, but that the…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
Thank you.
