Plaid Cymru

Speeches and questions

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

5,536 speeches and questions

13 May 2024Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Peter makes good points there. Whilst I tend to agree that closing the petition down would be something that we could do, there's—. With Bannau Brycheiniog now, even though the two names are still there in law, the one that's used more commonly, or that's the…
13 May 2024Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Diolch, Gadeirydd. Whilst I think we thank Sharon Owen for bringing this petition forward and it's had 380 signatures, so that's a good number, and I don't think any of us disagree with any of the sentiment in the fact that defibrillators save lives, I note…
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
So, under Standing Order 17.42, the committee will now resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting, if that's okay with Members. Lovely. Thank you. We'll go into private, then. Thank you.
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
—and other stakeholders to go through that, if we need to. So, that would be good.
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
So, it's important for us to understand how that is progressing. We will wait until that comes out, but we will also then decide whether or not we need to speak to other stakeholders to form a further view on this work. And once that report is concluded and…
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
Okay, thank you very much. Thank you so much, the three of you, for making the time this morning to come and talk to us. It's a challenging time and I appreciate that this sort of level of scrutiny is very difficult, but hopefully it'll put you in a stronger…
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
Thank you very much. That brings us to the end of our questioning. I'm looking around and nobody else is indicating that they want to ask any further questions. I'll just give you the opportunity to say if there's something that we haven't covered that you…
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
Thank you, Rhianon.
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
And from an ongoing training aspect, one of the things that I've done in the past with teams is unconscious bias training and that sort of thing. Is that something that—? It's very informative about your own personal development as well as everything else. Is…
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
Rhianon.
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
And make sure they're fully aware of what their responsibility is.
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
Sorry, Rhianon. Based on that, have you done any review of staff's social media? Is that something that you've looked at, just in case, or have you not done that yet?
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
No, okay, thank you. I'll bring Rhianon in for the final set of questions, please Thank you.
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
In those monthly meetings, have you picked up anything that was of concern?
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
As part of your management style, if you like, and management oversight.
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
There we are. Thank you. And in the fairly near future, we'll be reviewing the Act, so it might be something for us to delve into further in that piece of work, Mike. So, thank you for that. Just before I bring Rhianon in, you started your role as the PSOW on…
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
So, with Mike's question there, are you aware of cases—? Obviously, Mike is alluding to one case there. Are you aware of any others where that has happened, and if you don't have that information to hand, maybe you could let us know that figure down the line…
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
Sorry, you broke up then. Are you able to repeat that? Sorry.
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
Thank you. I'll bring Mike Hedges in at this point. Thank you, Mike.
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
Thank you very much, Peter. Before I bring Mike Hedges in, you've talked about the timescales, and what might be useful for this committee is, because of the timescale—this is going to take until the end of the summer and into the next term—if we could ask…
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
So, from the point of view of political allegiances and that aspect, Rhianon, is that what you're asking?
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
And, obviously, as a Finance Committee, we'd encourage you to do that. I know Rhianon has her hand up, so I'll bring her in now.
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
Bearing in mind that we're sat in the Finance Committee, and, obviously, we scrutinise your budget as well as other things, have you set aside money within the organisation currently to be able to fund some of this, or will there be a call for us to relook at…
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
Okay. Fine. Sorry, I just wanted to—. I probably muddled myself even more then, but it's good to have those on the record to know when things happened. Thank you.
9 May 2024Finance Committee
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session
That's 2019. Okay. Fine.