Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:12 pm on 11 May 2022.
Janet Finch-Saunders
Conservative
4:12,
11 May 2022
—but I'm not allowed, but this is a really serious subject, and I thank my own group and Darren Millar and Russell George for bringing this. We will bring these debates week after week, month after month—I hope not year after year. Please listen to us, Minister, but please improve the health service in Wales.
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