Clause 8
Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill [Lords]
4:00 pm
Nick Ainger (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Office of the Secretary of State for Wales; Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Labour)
The clause enables the Assembly to make regulations that empower the commissioner to assist an older person in Wales
“in making a complaint or representation to or in respect of the Assembly”,
or,
“a person providing regulated services in Wales”,
or,
“a person mentioned in schedule 3”,
or,
“a person providing services on behalf of or under arrangements with a person mentioned in schedule 3”.
In order for that service to be delivered, there might well be occasions when the services to which the hon. Lady referred, such as braille, translation and so on, would be required. I am certain that with the Assembly’s general policy on providing assistance to those with certain disabilities, and support for language, there will be no problem with providing those services.