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Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government priorities
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you to everyone who’s contributed to this debate this afternoon, and to the Minister for her response. I think speaker after speaker has taken us through the clear evidence that sets out a lack of a plan and a…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government priorities
So, to bring us back to the original intention of this debate, what is the purpose of having ambiguous priorities without any attempt to offer us a route towards delivery? The truth is that empty rhetoric and a lack of direction from this Labour Government in…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government priorities
It's fair to say that there was quite a bit of cynicism about what exactly the purpose was of the listening exercise embarked upon by the First Minister this summer. It's good to listen, as a point of principle, of course, and we should always be listening…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government priorities
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. This debate has been tabled by Plaid Cymru for a simple reason, to emphasise to the Welsh Government that establishing priorities and telling us that they have priorities isn't enough in and of itself, without a strategy…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Primary care in the Holyhead area has suffered a great deal following the pandemic, and also during the pandemic. It's going to be five years, within a few days now, since the closure of Longford Road and Cambria surgeries, with the health board having to…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
I'd like to welcome the Cabinet Secretary to her new role, also. I'm glad she mentioned M-SParc and the brilliant work going on there in terms of incubating and encouraging the development of businesses in digital, low carbon and other sectors. I've been long…
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Statement by the First Minister: Inter-governmental relations
So, the current systems aren't effective, and what's being proposed by Labour is at best ambiguous at the moment. The ideas emerge from somewhere in the Gordon Brown commission. The recommendations of that commission were quite weak in the first instance, of…
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Statement by the First Minister: Inter-governmental relations
I'll point to three examples of shortfalls in the so-called partnership in power between Labour in Welsh and UK Governments: (1) rather than having to rely on a conference press release, let's see the text of the agreement that underpins its cross-border…
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Statement by the First Minister: Inter-governmental relations
Two Labour Governments working in partnership for the benefit of the people of Wales—that was the pledge before the general election. That's what we're supposed to believe is the principle driving the work of the new First Minister. The problem, of course, is…
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Statement by the First Minister: Inter-governmental relations
The First Minister, very kindly, wanted to give me a lesson earlier this afternoon about how devolution works. Essentially, don't mention UK Government, don't mention Keir Starmer in the Welsh Parliament—we're here to talk about devolved things. And I get it…
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Questions to the First Minister
He's the Prime Minister, for goodness' sake.
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Questions to the First Minister
Choosing dentistry, if I may say, as an example of Labour's success in Wales is extraordinary. Perhaps she can choose a few statistics that sounds good, but surely she knows that the perception of people more generally is that NHS dentistry in Wales is on its…
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Questions to the First Minister
'We're better than the Tories' really is an incredibly low bar, if I might say. And I'm not impressed by name-dropping who you've been chatting with at the Labour Party conference. Your talk is cheap. We don't want 'talk the talk', we want 'walk the walk'…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you very much for the lesson. It's a great reminder, of course, of how devolution can work when Plaid Cymru come to the table to persuade Labour to do something that they voted against time and time again, which was to introduce free school meals. I'm…
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Questions to the First Minister
Last week, we saw the First Minister wash her hands of her responsibility to stand up for Wales in a most extraordinary way, I must say. Remember that, for months, people have been told that having two Labour Governments working together, one in Cardiff Bay…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS waiting lists
We saw last week—and we’ve heard reference to this already—Lord Darzi publishing his damning report on the health service in England, a report that set out clearly how long years of neglect and ignoring the fundamental problems—and let’s remember that that…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Winter fuel payment
What on earth was that about?
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
I think there are many reasons why the Cabinet Secretary for north Wales would wish to join me and the community in opposing two enormous solar farms planned for Ynys Môn. Not only is the so-called community benefit negligible, there is the negative impact on…
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Statement by the First Minister: Government priorities
Wales needs a Government that doesn't fear challenging Westminster, whoever holds the keys to No. 10 Downing Street. It's only then can we seek fairness for our nation, fair funding, constitutional fairness, a new approach to tackling poverty, the need for…
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Statement by the First Minister: Government priorities
Now, on reforming the Barnett formula, on HS2 consequentials, on devolving the Crown Estate, on justice and policing, Labour's message to Wales is 'no', it's 'no', it's 'no'. So, let me ask the First Minister to take action on these areas of priority…
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Statement by the First Minister: Government priorities
Now, the legacy of the longest ever waiting lists, the fall in school standards, low wages, all show us that Labour Governments have had their opportunity and have failed. I know what people tell me, not just in a few weeks of consultation to calm the waters…
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Statement by the First Minister: Government priorities
The First Minister calls what happened this summer a consultation; I call it a public relations exercise. What I saw was a summer of silence. The First Minister didn't even think it worthwhile to immediately appoint a permanent Government, waiting until last…
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Statement by the First Minister: Government priorities
May I thank the First Minister for the statement? And, at the beginning of the parliamentary term, I wish her very well in her work. I will encourage her to show real ambition every day, but, unfortunately, the evidence presented through this statement…
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Business Statement and Announcement
May I ask for a statement by the new Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning about Welsh Government plans to look again at the planning conditions that enabled a developer to create a housing estate in Brynteg on Ynys Môn? Brynteg is a beautiful…
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Questions to the First Minister
I'm being criticised by the First Minister for demanding for Wales what Wales needs in terms of fair funding. It's the Labour Party that told us that everything would be rosy in the garden as soon as we had a Labour Government at Westminster, and now we have…
