Speeches by Hoare.

“Yes. In essence, if the wider public sector and public services are undergoing a long-overdue process of analysis for transformation opportunities in order to deliver more bang for the buck, better service, and so on, is there a concomitant workstream under way about how the Executive itself can transform and be reform…”

“I have a very quick question back to the Minister, following up from Mr Robinson’s line of questioning. When you and the Secretary of State had that magic word “shadow” before your positions, you were vocal in your criticism of the stance of the previous Government on this issue, therefore, I suppose, leading legitimat…”

“The temporary use of top-ups to plug gaps is a perennial problem when it comes to relationships between Treasury, the Northern Ireland Office, the Executive and the whole of Northern Ireland. It does not address the fundamental issue alluded to by Gavin about the base core assessment of need; the foundation is wrong, h…”

“That is music to my ears as a keen devolutionist, but I have always had a concern that the devolveds are often inclined to trade in splendid isolation of operation and never think to reach out and ask questions of each other and back to Westminster. It is good to hear that you are driving forward this sharing of best p…”

“In an earlier answer to a question, you told the Committee that you were convinced that the local political will was there to deliver transformation. You are absolutely right to point to the unhealthily long time that the Executive has not been sitting, and the backlog of transformation is artificially distorted, is it…”

“It is encouraging to hear that. Can I press upon you the importance of delivering that strategy and stability of funding, particularly for those organisations in the community working with young people? Very often, they are stopping people getting into criminality, antisocial behaviour and so on. When they finally buil…”

“Good morning, witnesses. Minister, could I ask you this? I am becoming increasingly encouraged, I have to say, that there seems to be a step change in the MO of the Executive, which is building on mutual trust and collaborative working to face into those difficult and challenging political decisions that need to be tak…”

“Yes. In essence, if the wider public sector and public services are undergoing a long-overdue process of analysis for transformation opportunities in order to deliver more bang for the buck, better service, and so on, is there a concomitant workstream under way about how the Executive itself can transform and be reform…”

“To any of you, is there an identifiable trend, let’s say over the last 10 years or so, of referring patients to English providers? If the trend is upwards, does that show an unwillingness of clinicians to practise in Wales, or an antipathy towards geographical specialisms rather than trying to be generalists across the…”

“What about from the patient perspective?”

“Are you able to write to the Committee on that?”

“That would be helpful. Thank you. Dr Kelly, do you have an observation on that?”

“It has always been my belief that when most people have a medical need they are not that precious about where that need is diagnosed, treated and cured. They just want to have it done as quickly as possible. I think most people would also have an expectation of the cross-border sharing of best practice, and sharing whe…”

“We like marginal positivity; that is always a good sign.”

“I hope it is not contentious to suggest that all public services require continual review, transformation and modernisation. Quite a lot of that depends upon political stability and mutual political trust. We have been more than aware of the shortage of that capital in recent years. Thank heavens Stormont is now back u…”

“Dr Stout, can I just ask you the “why?” question? You mentioned in your initial answer to the Chair that services have not been prioritised and are scattergun, if you will, rather than an Exocet approach. You have referenced in answer to my question the things that could have been done such as Bengoa. This is a simple …”

“You referenced that there had been cross-party agreement. You have identified that political stability was an enormous impediment. You have recognised that political stability seems to be back and hopefully will endure. Allied to that is, of course, the need for mutual political trust between the principal parties in S…”

“Dr Gault, I suppose that is my initial and caveated question to you as well.”

“You referenced that there had been cross-party agreement. You have identified that political stability was an enormous impediment. You have recognised that political stability seems to be back and hopefully will endure. Allied to that is, of course, the need for mutual political trust between the principal parties in S…”

“My heart always sinks when I hear about a ministerial advisory group. It is a bit like a royal commission. It often takes a lot of time and does not achieve anything. The Secretary of State set out in her priorities the growth of high-quality jobs and a dynamic economy. Are you convinced and persuaded that Welsh Govern…”