Meeting Venue:
Y Siambr - Y Senedd
Meeting date:
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
Meeting time: 13.30
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This meeting will be held in a hybrid format, with some Members in the Senedd Chamber and others joining by video-conference.
1 Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
(45 mins)
The Presiding Officer will call party spokespeople to ask questions without notice to the Minister after Question 2.
2 Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
(45 mins)
The Presiding Officer will call party spokespeople to ask questions without notice to the Counsel General after Question 2.
3 Questions to the Senedd Commission
(30 mins)
4 Topical Questions
(20 mins)
5 90 Second Statements
(5 mins)
6 Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal - High-rise building safety
(30 mins)
NDM8230 Janet Finch-Saunders (Aberconwy)
To propose that the Senedd:
1. Notes a proposal for a Bill to ensure that high-rise building developers are responsible for safety issues.
2. Notes that the purpose of this Bill would be to:
a) create a duty on developers to refund leaseholders for reasonable costs accrued due to building safety issues; and
b) prohibit any developer who refuses to remediate the fire safety defects on buildings they developed from being awarded planning permission for any new developments in Wales.
Co-submitters
Jane Dodds (Mid and West Wales)
Rhys ab Owen (South Wales Central)
Supporters
Joel James (South Wales Central)
Natasha Asghar (South Wales East)
7 Debate on the Local Government and Housing Committee report – Homelessness
(60 mins)
NDM8267 John Griffiths (Newport East)
To propose that the Senedd:
Notes the report of the Local Government and Housing Committee, ‘Homelessness’, which was laid in the Table Office on 9 March 2023.
Note: The response of the Welsh Government to the report was laid in the Table Office on 10 May 2023.
8 Plaid Cymru Debate - Respiratory disease
(60 mins)
NDM8266 Sian Gwenllian (Arfon)
To propose that the Senedd:
1. Notes:
a) that 1 in 5 people live with a lung condition in Wales;
b) that Wales has the highest level of respiratory deaths in western Europe;
c) that respiratory services have not recovered post-pandemic, with waiting lists for pulmonary rehabilitation being as high as three years in some parts of Wales;
d) that the Welsh Government have developed a new quality statement but there is no implementation plan.
2. Calls upon the Welsh Government to develop an improvement plan for respiratory disease to transform improve the lives of people living with lung conditions.
The following amendment was tabled:
Amendment 1 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)
Delete all after 1(b) and replace with:
that Wales is leading the way in the UK in many aspects of improving respiratory disease services, including the use of digital education at scale to improve clinical care, the use of patient apps to reduce the need for urgent and emergency care, and supporting patients to move to using lower carbon footprint inhalers;
that the NHS will respond to the Quality Statement for Respiratory Disease through its local operational planning and will be supported nationally by the NHS Executive's clinical network for respiratory disease.
Quality Statement for Respiratory Disease
9 Voting Time
10 Short Debate
(30 mins)
NDM8265 Peter Fox (Monmouth)
Why Wales needs a strategic plan to prioritise brain tumour research
The Senedd will sit again in Plenary at 13.30, Tuesday, 23 May 2023