20 January 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you very much to Julie Morgan for raising this important issue. Recently, I saw a blind person walking along Cowbridge Road East, and noticed, as she used her white stick, how many barriers were facing her. One of those were cars parked on the…
13 January 2026 , Plenary
The general principles of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales (Membership) Bill
I thank the Counsel General for her responses to my contribution earlier on in relation to the emergency element of the Bill. I’m not going to repeat my concerns that I did earlier on today about why it has taken so long for this to be brought to the…
13 January 2026 , Plenary
& 12. The general principles of the Development of Tourism and Regulation of Visitor Accommodation (Wales) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Development of Tourism and Regulation of Visitor Accommodation (Wales) Bill
Cabinet Secretary, I wish to start by quoting some of the evidence heard with regard to this legislation, firstly by the Professional Association of Self-Caterers UK Cymru. They say this: 'No cumulative impact assessment has been carried out, despite 19…
13 January 2026 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: NHS Winter Pressures
Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. Cabinet Secretary, on 5 January, Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board declared the emergency unit as 'extremely busy'—hardly surprising. But there, NHS staff don't only have to cope with busy times and more patients…
13 January 2026 , Plenary
& 5. Motion under Standing Order 26.95 that a Bill to be known as the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales (Membership) Bill be treated as a Government Emergency Bill and Motion under Standing Order 26.98(ii) to agree a timetable for the Bill to be known as the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales (Membership) Bill
Of course, I do agree with this, and I will be voting in favour. But, Counsel General, I am questioning how we've arrived at this situation here today, where Commission staff had to work over Christmas. It's not fair, because in 2008, we saw the introduction…
12 January 2026 , Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Yes, thank you, Cadeirydd. This is our second consideration of this important matter, and I think that most of us probably have seen the footage or similar footage to what you've mentioned, and the similar destruction and pointless waste. There has been good…
12 January 2026 , Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Diolch yn fawr, Cadeirydd. This is the third consideration of this matter, which has been mentioned in the Senedd throughout this term. I know, before he was Deputy First Minister, Huw Irranca-Davies raised this regularly on the Plenary floor, and I know a…
12 January 2026 , Petitions Committee
New Petitions
It's a massive outlier, and I think I'd really want to go behind that figure and know—. I'd like that to be put to the Cabinet Secretary. Why is that particular local authority so low?
12 January 2026 , Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Just to say it out in the open, I did mention before we started the committee about whether we could have this as a debate in Plenary, and I'm told, quite understandably, that we haven't got time left, and of course it hasn't reached the threshold. But I…
12 January 2026 , Petitions Committee
New Petitions
Diolch yn fawr, Cadeirydd. We've had a number of ALN-related petitions during this Senedd term and it's been raised on several occasions in the Chamber. The petitioner's case is very clear in the petition and the response has been positive. They welcome the…
13 November 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Diolch, Dirprwy Brif Weinidog. Some in this Chamber will remember the big floods in the early 1980s. I have only seen photos of them, when Cathedral Rd and many parts of Pontcanna and Canton were under water. But, Cardiff is still under threat from flooding…
13 November 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
4. How will the Welsh Government tackle flooding in the Cardiff area? OQ61831
13 November 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you very much, Cabinet Secretary. When I attended a Welsh-medium primary school in Cardiff in the 1990s, there was just one child from an ethnic minority in a year of 70 children, and there was just one Muslim family at the school of over 400 children…
13 November 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
8. What discussions has the Cabinet Secretary had with the Cabinet Secretary for Education and with local authorities about promoting the Welsh language among people from ethnic minority people? OQ61830
12 November 2024 , Plenary
Debate: The Welsh Language Commissioner’s Annual Report 2023-24
I also echo my thanks to the Welsh Language Commissioner for her report and her important contribution in relation to the Welsh language. Cabinet Secretary, I would like to discuss a specific issue today, namely Welsh language services provided for children…
12 November 2024 , Plenary
Debate: Remembrance
In the Tabernacl chapel in the centre of Cardiff, there's a wooden plaque on the wall, carved with a penknife by a prisoner of war in the infamous Changi prison in Singapore. On it are 17 names from Cardiff and the Rhondda valley of men who died during the…
12 November 2024 , Plenary
Debate: Remembrance
He is one of the millions of people who died in a pointless war.
12 November 2024 , Plenary
Debate: Remembrance
In a letter to my great-grandparents, Dafydd Rhys Thomas’s comrade wrote how he died from a shrapnel wound. And this is what they say, 'We buried him as well as we could, but then a shell landed.' There's no grave for Dafydd Rhys.
12 November 2024 , Plenary
Debate: Remembrance
I was named after my grandfather's brother, Dafydd Rhys Thomas from Treorchy, who died in the first battle of the Somme aged just 25. Their older brother, the Rev Degwel Thomas from Neath, participated in recruitment meetings. In a speech on the Gnoll during…
12 November 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government: Building safety
It's clear from all contributions and from speaking to leaseholders that accountability and transparency are the two big issues. An example of that, as raised by the Chair of the housing committee, is Celestia, which is just around the corner. At the end of…
12 November 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government: Building safety
Thank you, Deputy Llywydd, and thank you, Cabinet Secretary.
12 November 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Anti-bullying Week: The mental health and well-being of learners
My four-year-old went to nursery today wearing odd socks. And when she saw me putting on what she described as 'boring black socks', she decided she would pick some new socks for me. So, that's why I'm wearing brightly coloured socks and wearing Christmassy…
5 November 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Diolch yn fawr, Cwnsler Cyffredinol. I am concerned, about this important Bill going through Westminster as part of a private Member's Bill, that the impact on Welsh devolution and on the health and social care system here in Wales will not be fully…
5 November 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
8. What advice has the Counsel General provided to the Welsh Government regarding the impact on devolved services if the UK Parliament legislates to allow assisted dying? OQ61796
5 November 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you very much, Counsel General. If the Welsh Government is serious about the devolution of justice, then we have to run the things that we have already well. That hasn't been true in terms of the Welsh tribunals. We read in one annual report after…
