Mark Isherwood: Our report found that lack of PPE and shortages of end-of-life medication, especially in the early days of the pandemic, were common issues reported by health and social care workers providing palliative care in the community. In many cases, palliative and social care workers were reliant on donations or makeshift PPE items such as visors, scrubs and masks from the local community, and...
Mark Isherwood: Diolch, Llywydd. Our motion today notes the cross-party group on hospice and palliative care's inquiry on experiences of palliative and end-of-life care in the community during the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales. The motion is based entirely on the evidence-based report resulting from this, which sought to give people and organisations at the very sharp end of the pandemic a voice and a platform....
Mark Isherwood: This week marks World Autism Acceptance Week, which aims to change attitudes towards autistic people and their families. As part of its sixtieth anniversary year, the National Autistic Society collaborated with autistic people to create a vision of a society that works for them. Through interviews, workshops, social media and non-verbal creative activities, the charity invited autistic...
Mark Isherwood: I strongly contend that these are matters that fall within the brief—
Mark Isherwood: And I'd therefore be grateful if the Counsel General could answer the question I put at the beginning: what advice would he now give to the health Minister in the context of this worrying statement?
Mark Isherwood: Well, I'd suggest it goes a little bit further than that. And this, I have to say, reeks of an unethical Government, with the Minister following her predecessors in seeking to silence the truth tellers and bury accountability. However, moving on, the Windsor framework, agreed by the Prime Minister and European Commission President, replaces the old Northern Ireland protocol, providing a new...
Mark Isherwood: Well, what advice would you now give to the health Minister, in the context of the statement I've received on behalf of all the former independent members of the health board—respected people in north Wales—stating, 'We believe she is setting healthcare in north Wales back a decade'. And including, 'Each CEO has told us that they have found the executive team unmanageable, made worse by...
Mark Isherwood: Diolch, Llywydd. The Welsh Government's 'NHS Wales Induction Guide for Independent Board Members' includes: 'The aim is to have a single set of values which guide how we work, change culture and shape the way we behave. Living these values means being autonomous yet accountable, being both brave and bold and creating a culture that is open and transparent... 'Holders of public office should...
Mark Isherwood: Hear, hear.
Mark Isherwood: In your written statement on the cost-of-living energy crisis yesterday, you welcomed both the decision to bring prepayment energy charges in line with customers who pay by direct debit, announced in the UK Government budget, and Ofgem's extended ban on the forced installation of prepayment meters. You also stated: 'it is regrettable it took a media investigation to highlight the issue'. Will...
Mark Isherwood: Thank you, Llywydd, for the opportunity to contribute to this debate as Chair of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee, or PAPAC. The Business Committee agreed that the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee, or LJC committee, and PAPAC should report on legislative consent memorandum, or LCM, No. 1 by 6 October 2022. On 11 July 2022, the Minister laid before the...
Mark Isherwood: Thank you. The findings of the recent Equality and Human Rights Commission's report 'Challenging adult social care decisions in England and Wales' include: local authorities make daily decisions about people's access to social care and people have a right to challenge them, but people are not given crucial information about how to challenge decisions. They fear that if they challenge...
Mark Isherwood: 7. Pa ganllawiau y mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn eu darparu i awdurdodau lleol ynglŷn â gwneud penderfyniadau am ofal cymdeithasol? OQ59336
Mark Isherwood: A wnewch chi dderbyn ymyriad?
Mark Isherwood: Fel rhywun a oedd yn teithio ar fysiau cyn dadreoleiddio, gallaf eich sicrhau nad oedd yn oes aur ar drafnidiaeth gyhoeddus. Ond er hynny, a ydych chi'n cydnabod, yn Lloegr, am chwe blynedd o dan Ddeddf gwasanaethau bysiau trafnidiaeth 2017, maent eisoes wedi gallu dewis tri opsiwn, gan gynnwys masnachfreinio, na fu ar gael yng Nghymru oherwydd y model anhrefedigol?
Mark Isherwood: Yn ôl yr amcangyfrifon diweddaraf sydd ar gael gan y rheolydd ynni, Ofgem, roedd oddeutu 4.1 miliwn o gwsmeriaid trydan a 3.3 miliwn o gwsmeriaid nwy ar fesurydd rhagdalu ym Mhrydain yn 2020, gyda nifer gyfrannol fwy o aelwydydd yng Nghymru yn defnyddio mesuryddion rhagdalu nag yn Lloegr. Cymru sydd â’r gyfran uchaf o fesuryddion rhagdalu nwy o gymharu â gwledydd eraill Prydain, ac maent...
Mark Isherwood: Rwyf wedi bod yn falch o gynnal a siarad yn nigwyddiadau Pŵer Cyfartal, Llais Cyfartal y Senedd yn 2022 a 2023, i ddathlu prosiect Pŵer Cyfartal, Llais Cyfartal, rhaglen fentora sy’n ceisio cynyddu amrywiaeth o gynrychiolaeth mewn bywyd cyhoeddus a gwleidyddol yng Nghymru. Partneriaeth yw Pŵer Cyfartal, Llais Cyfartal rhwng Rhwydwaith Cydraddoldeb Menywod Cymru, Stonewall Cymru, Anabledd...
Mark Isherwood: Diolch yn fawr. Wrth holi'r Cwnsler Cyffredinol yma ym mis Medi 2021, gofynnais iddo am ei ymateb cychwynnol i gynigion ym mhapur ymgynghori Comisiwn y Gyfraith ar dribiwnlysoedd datganoledig yng Nghymru, yn benodol, i ddiwygio uned Tribiwnlysoedd Cymru, y rhan o Lywodraeth Cymru sy'n gweinyddu'r rhan fwyaf o dribiwnlysoedd datganoledig ar hyn o bryd, i fod yn adran anweinidogol. Holais y...
Mark Isherwood: Sut mae Llywodraeth Cymru'n monitro perfformiad GIG 111 yng Ngogledd Cymru?
Mark Isherwood: Diolch. Mae cefnogaeth eang i gynlluniau ar gyfer coedwig genedlaethol i Gymru, sef rhwydwaith enfawr o goed a choedwigoedd ar draws y genedl sy'n agored i bawb gael eu harchwilio a'u mwynhau. Fodd bynnag, mae coetiroedd yn parhau i gael eu gweld fel nwydd cyhoeddus hyd yn oed pan fydd yn darparu cynefin delfrydol i brif ysglyfaethwyr sy'n ysglyfaethu nythod a chywion, sef y prif beth sy'n...
