Meeting Venue:
Y Siambr - Y Senedd
Meeting date:
Wednesday, 5 July 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 Climate Change
(45 mins)
The Presiding Officer will call party spokespeople to ask questions without notice to the Minister after Question 2.
2 Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
(45 mins)
The Presiding Officer will call party spokespeople to ask questions without notice to the Minister after Question 2.
3 Topical Questions
(20 mins)
To ask the Minister for Economy
Sarah Murphy (Bridgend): Will the Minister make a statement in response to the announcement by Zimmer Biomet that it will cease manufacturing at its plant in Bridgend?
To ask the Minister for Health and Social Services
Mabon ap Gwynfor (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): Will the Minister make a statement following the evidence given by the First Minister and Minister for Economy relating to the lack of pandemic preparedness in Wales at the UK Covid-19 inquiry yesterday?
4 90 Second Statements
(5 mins)
5 Motion to note the annual report on the Senedd Commission's Official Languages Scheme for 2022–23 - Postponed
(0 mins)
6 Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv) - Epilepsy services
(60 mins)
NDM8273 Luke Fletcher (South Wales West)
To propose that the Senedd:
1. Notes:
a) that across Wales, the prevalence of epilepsy is 1 per cent (approximately 32,000 people with epilepsy), with localised variation linked to levels of deprivation;
b) that in Wales, there are 11.5 whole time equivalent epilepsy specialist nurses (ESNs), which equates to a ratio of 1 nurse to every 2,823 patients;
c) that the Steers report (2008) recommends a ratio of 300 patients to one ESN, which would equate to a total of 107 ESNs in Wales.
2. Calls for the Welsh Government to:
a) support measures to reduce current waiting times for patients and service users accessing epilepsy services;
b) support health professionals in Wales, by ensuring the levels of staffing across the health boards of Wales are appropriately resourced to achieve and maintain sustainability, patient safety, and quality of service.
Supporters
Delyth Jewell (South Wales East)
Heledd Fychan (South Wales Central)
Jane Dodds (Mid and West Wales)
Joel James (South Wales Central)
Joyce Watson (Mid and West Wales)
Peredur Owen Griffiths (South Wales East)
Sioned Williams (South Wales West)
Tom Giffard (South Wales East)
7 Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee report - The legislative framework that supports Welsh-medium education provision
(60 mins)
NDM8314 Delyth Jewell (South Wales East)
To propose that the Senedd:
Notes the report of the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee ‘The Legislative framework that supports Welsh-medium education provision’, which was laid in the Table Office on 19 May 2023.
Note: The response of the Welsh Government to the report was laid in the Table Office on 3 July 2023.
8 Welsh Conservatives Debate - National Health Service
(60 mins)
NDM8315 Darren Millar (Clwyd West)
To propose that the Senedd:
1. Celebrates the 75th anniversary of the creation of the National Health Service.
2. Notes the British Medical Association’s warning that GP services and the Welsh National Health Service is in crisis and at risk of collapse.
3. Calls on the Welsh Government to secure the next 75 years of the National Health Service by meeting the needs of patients and staff and maintaining the core principle of being free at the point of need.
Save our Surgeries, GPC Wales - British Medical Association
Letter from the BMA to the Minister for Health and Social Services
The following amendment was tabled:
Amendment 1 Heledd Fychan (South Wales Central)
Add new point at the end of motion:
Believes that National Health Service privatisation is a fundamental threat to our health service and that providing healthcare free at the point of need should remain the principle at the heart of health care provision in Wales.
9 Voting Time
10 Short Debate
(30 mins)
NDM8312 Samuel Kurtz (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire)
The military's footprint in Wales: the armed forces' importance to Wales’s identity
The Senedd will sit again in Plenary at 13.30, Tuesday, 11 July 2023