Hwyl fawrpublished at 14:18 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March
Eluned Morgan’s twenty-third session as first minister comes to a close.

Eluned Morgan
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Plaid Cymru MS Cefin Campbell raises the issue of "unacceptable" NHS waiting lists in mid and west Wales.
He says that e-mails he receives from constituents "contradict the story published by your government last week, stating that the monitoring level for Hywel Dda University Health Board will be downgraded from level 4 to level 3".
He elaborates, "despite the announcement, there was a report hours later that the provision for non-urgent mental health cases in north Ceredigion would be coming to an end. Only 56 per cent of the 147 mental health cases in north Ceredigion have care and treatment plans in place which falls a long way short of the target of 90 per cent that you yourself have set. That's just a microcosm, first minister, of the grave situation in of unacceptable waiting lists in my region."
Eluned Morgan says the fact that Hywel Dda University Health Board has been de-escalated from level four to level three of intervention should be welcomed.
She adds, "I know that there is a unique problem in the Ceredigion area at present, and I am aware of that. Now, the point at present is that there are many vacancies available - they've gone out and they've failed to appoint to the substantive consultant psychiatrist post. So, what they've done is brought a specialist nurse in, over the short term."
Cefin Campbell
Llywydd Elin Jones conducts a ballot to determine the names of who may table questions to the first minister.
Conservative Paul Davies says improvements are "desperately needed" to people waiting for diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis - a long-term condition that causes pain, swelling and stiffness in the ts - in Pembrokeshire.
He says "a constituent of mine has been informed that the waiting time for an urgent appointment with the rheumatology department at Withybush hospital is 13 months, and 15 months for a non-urgent appointment... it’s not acceptable that people in Pembrokeshire are waiting so much longer than their relatives in other parts of the UK for the same treatment. These people are waiting in pain, and they are understandably angry."
First Minister Eluned Morgan replies "it’s true that our waiting lists were way too high. I’m really pleased to say that they are coming down, and they’ve come down for the second month in a row. And, certainly, in Hywel Dda, they are on course to eliminate the 104-week-long wait. So, that’s two-year waiting lists. So, they’re going to get rid of those by the end of March this year."
The waiting list for hospital treatment in Wales has fallen slightly for the second month in a row.
But the Welsh government's target to reduce the numbers waiting longer than two years – in most specialties – has still not been met.
In January, 613,000 patients were waiting for 796,802 treatments to take place, down from 800,395 treatments in December.
The total number waiting longer than two years is just under 21,100.
The target to eliminate waits this long applies in certain specialities, but even within these areas there are 2,713 people waiting more than two years.
These specialities include Accident and Emergency, Cardiology, Radiology and Midwifery.
Paul Davies
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Eluned Morgan’s twenty-third session of First Minister's Questions.
The meeting is held in a hybrid format, with some in the Siambr (Senedd chamber) and others ing by video-conference.
You can click on the play button above to watch the proceedings from 1.30pm.