1 May 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thank you very much. Yes, the point is that those day centres do play such an important role in that preventative work to prevent people from having to access health and care services in the first place, and ameliorate that pressure. A number of people have…
1 May 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thank you, Llywydd. Welcome to your new role, Minister. I'd like to raise with you the great concern that exists about the number of day centres closing across Wales. These centres have been more than just buildings for so many people who need support in the…
30 April 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language: Tata Steel
The news we heard last week from Tata doesn't just impact the workforce in Port Talbot and their families, but also, of course, all of the communities that I represent, and the nightmare that has hung over them for all these months is now real. It's so…
29 April 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow-up inquiry: evidence session 4
—levels we have currently of provision isn't giving that boost to those children either for them to be able to succeed better in life. So, thinking about socioeconomic deprivation, but also other groups who suffer disadvantage—I suppose we're thinking there…
29 April 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow-up inquiry: evidence session 4
Bear with me, because I've written my questions in Welsh. Do you want to dig in deeper on this issue of how early years education and childcare can tackle inequalities of all kinds, and, obviously, socioeconomic deprivation? Chris quite rightly pointed out…
29 April 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow-up inquiry: evidence session 4
Okay. Perhaps it's not for Naomi. No worries.
29 April 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow-up inquiry: evidence session 4
Okay. I'll ask in English. No worries.
29 April 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow-up inquiry: evidence session 4
Yes. I just wanted to check whether the interpretation is working. No. Okay.
29 April 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow-up inquiry: evidence session 3
I just wanted to ask, on that point, you say in your paper—it's a question for Jane—you say in your paper that you want to see the Scottish Government delaying things before further expansion. Is this due to what you've just outlined about this pipeline…
29 April 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow-up inquiry: evidence session 3
Is there anything in this respect to do with health, health outcomes, and mental health that you've seen that are related to the provision that you have in Estonia—things such as child health, obesity, the mental health of children? Have you done any work or…
29 April 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow-up inquiry: evidence session 3
Maria, would you like to mention that? Clearly, Estonia is doing very well in educational terms. How much of that do you think comes down to the system that you have, the childhood education and provision system that you have?
29 April 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow-up inquiry: evidence session 3
What about children and the educational outputs for children?
29 April 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow-up inquiry: evidence session 3
Thank you, Chair. It's so interesting to hear all three of you speak of the process that your nations have been through in terms of expanding childcare and early years provision over the last few decades, and of course this work is currently under way in…
24 April 2024 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Women's Caucus
Well, things could vary. We've heard evidence that improving gender representation could be on one side of the political spectrum. I don't think that's good for democracy. It should be across political parties and across the political spectrum. And the other…
24 April 2024 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Women's Caucus
Well, it's precisely that. In terms of the workplace itself, for example, women have experience of job sharing. It's far more common for women than for men. I think there are people in this place who understand what job sharing entails, and I know this is…
24 April 2024 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Women's Caucus
If I could just correct the point on intersectionality. Other under-represented groups are clearly deserving of having steps in place to ensure that they too are represented. Just to say that there is evidence that has been set out by the Women’s Equality…
24 April 2024 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Women's Caucus
I just wanted to say that I support everything that Joyce has said. I think that personal experience is important here. Within the women's caucus, we've discussed this, because we do converse as parliamentarians, and I've seen myself the battle that one can…
24 April 2024 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Women's Caucus
Sioned Williams, Plaid Cymru, and also a member of the women's caucus.
24 April 2024 , Plenary
90-second Statements
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. April is Adenomyosis Awareness Month, and if ever there's a condition that needs more awareness, it's adenomyosis. It affects at least one in 10 girls, women and people assigned female at birth, making it as common as diabetes or…
24 April 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Diolch yn fawr. Key to making progress on this, of course, is accurate data being gathered and published by Welsh Government on the number of people with a learning disability placed in settings like this, and, indeed, the number living in Wales, to enable…
24 April 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Last week there was a large protest outside the Senedd, organised by Stolen Lives, a group of families and carers calling for the release of people with a learning disability and/or autistic people from secure hospital settings in Wales. As chair of the…
24 April 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Thank you, Llywydd. Welcome to the social justice portfolio, Cabinet Secretary. Ensuring fairness is possibly the most important role within Government.
24 April 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport
I'm very glad to hear about that move, although we already know what young people think. The Welsh Youth Parliament very strongly told us what young people think about the need for free transport—accessible, easily affordable public transport. Last year, as…
22 April 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Governance of Fire and Rescue Services: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning, and the Chief Fire Adviser
Can I just ask very quickly—? Clearly, you're very new to the role and you've outlined that you're not in a rush and that you want to do this properly. You've also said very clearly in your paper that we can't delay any more. Too much delay and not facing the…
22 April 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Governance of Fire and Rescue Services: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning, and the Chief Fire Adviser
Thank you, Chair.
