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
In terms of that, is the Government thinking at all about expanding the role and resources of the chief fire and rescue inspector for Wales? Would there be a stronger role for the auditor general? Do you have any ideas about that that you wouldn't need…
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. In terms of Audit Wales, they said that they are aware the Welsh Government plans to replace the improvement regime set out in the Local Government (Wales) Measure 2009 for fire and rescue authorities. Could you, Minister, provide some details of…
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. And perhaps a question for the Minister, but also for you: what role did a lack of periodic and routine inspections play in the failings identified in the fire and rescue service in the south, and what options are currently under consideration in…
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. Just to go back very briefly then, it's a question for the fire and rescue adviser and inspector. It's this question again with regards your role within that audit and inspection regime. The Fire Brigades Union said to us that they were…
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
I can't hear him. There we are.
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
Just very quickly, to go back to Stuart Millington, you mentioned earlier, Mr Stephens, that you had done some kind of review of the culture in the fire and rescue services in north Wales, although we didn't get that information from you, I don't think. 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
I just wanted to pick up on that. I don't think it's right to say that—. There was a case in which he said that he needed to do some learning, if I remember correctly, in terms of the accusations against him. He had admitted he needed to improve some of 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.
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
And those who have left, because obviously many people have left and had very bad experiences.
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
I just wanted to come back very quickly to the remit of the reports in north and mid and west Wales. Have you been reassured, or are you looking for assurance, that those reviews will take evidence from former members of staff, people who have now left the…
17 April 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Diolch. You've no doubt heard the concerns in the press and heard my colleague Delyth Jewell also raise concerns about water collecting in the void left by the Ffos-y-Fran opencast site. So, this isn't really about coal tip safety. The Welsh Government…
17 April 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
1. How does the Government ensure that opencast coal mine-restoration plans safeguard communities in South Wales West? OQ60908
17 April 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
I have the supplementary, but not the question. Sorry.
17 April 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
I'll find it.
17 April 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Diolch, Llywydd. And I don't have the question in front of me, sorry.
16 April 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Delivering Wales's priorities
How can we tell if something is a priority? Usually, there are clear objectives and targets designed to support that priority. This year alone, I've raised child poverty 20 times in Plenary, and I'll continue to do so, because, for Plaid Cymru, it is a…
16 April 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Delivering Wales's priorities
Thank you for the list of priorities, First Minister.
16 April 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Diolch. For five days this month, from 4 April until 9 April, the highest level of escalation was declared at Morriston Hospital—a so-called 'black alert'. Patients in accident and emergency were facing 15-hour waits. Swansea Bay University Health Board…
16 April 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
5. How does the Government ensure that residents of South Wales West receive timely healthcare? OQ60907
20 March 2024 , Plenary
Short Debate: Saving lives and protecting our communities—The case for overdose prevention centres
Do you think that, therefore—? You've heard our arguments for the devolution of criminal justice for exactly this reason. Do you see, therefore, that the piecemeal approach, suggested by Gordon Brown and that seems to be adopted by Keir Starmer, won't address…
20 March 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Barnett formula
And let's be absolutely clear, these aren’t unavoidable by-products or side effects of a lack of sufficient resources. Rather, they are a damning indictment of the warped and unjust priorities of our political system, and the unfair, unbalanced union of which…
20 March 2024 , Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Barnett formula
We have talked a lot about fairness today, and we've heard about how the deficiencies of the Barnett formula are a reflection of the lack of fairness that permeates our society and contributes to it. Of course, the consequences of this fundamental unfairness…
20 March 2024 , Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): National collections
Do you think it would have been better if that panel would have reported before the budget was set?
20 March 2024 , Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): National collections
'the question of the archive is not...a question of the past...It is a question of the future, the question of the future itself, the question of a response, of a promise and of a responsibility for tomorrow.'
20 March 2024 , Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): National collections
I would like to conclude by talking about the importance of maintaining free access to our national museums. I attended a meeting last week with the main organisations and charities in Wales that fight for the interests of children and young people. They…
