ID cards and other news
AMs urged to fight ID cards, Western Mail. One of our AMs Leanne Wood voted despite being on maternity leave and is quoted in the article:
She said, “We in Wales should save ourselves from this expensive waste of
money. It is right that our doctors, teachers and other public servants should
not be burdened by this extra bureaucracy.
“People just won’t put up with this, and it’ll become Labour’s poll
tax. It is right that the Assembly should take a principled stand against ID
cards.”
The officialness of the amendment and the vote is available from the Assembly pages and am I going mad or are there no online records for the Assembly business? The website is truly a shocker, oh for a Welsh They Work For You!
Older news on this: Opposition bid to block ID cards on, well, exactly what it says on the title. A fairly similar article is also in the Western Mail, Rhodri facing defeat over ID card plan.
Morgan bids to end top-up fee deadlock, with some sort of resolution expected soon. And how do you deal with stressed out, desperate employees taking sick days? Sack em. Cardiff's £8.5m sick bill.
posted by Frances @ 11:14
4 comments
4 Comments:
Not the same as TWFY, but have you seen www.assemblyonline.org? Something a bit less bias whould be helpfull.
On the matter of viewing Assembly business, there's this link on Leighton Andrews blog re. a debate on banning smoking in public:
http://www.wales.gov.uk/assemblydata/N0000000000000000000000000031884.html#_Toc104887653
But I don't see how you can get to a menu and choose which debate you want to read.
but have you seen www.assemblyonline.org?
Thank you, Rhys.
and am I going mad or are there no online records for the Assembly business?
Sorry, forgot. Frances, I can't find a proper account on that web page -- surely there's a Welsh Hansard type of thing?
Sick pay for Council; that Western Mail report is all too predictable. I bet the higher sick rates for Cardiff Council employees simply reflect the higher sick rates for Wales (which reflect, in part, the incredibly long waiting lists which I am convinced still exist -- given that I have waited about 4 months simply to hear I've been put on one...)
I suppose I'd better do some research on that -- at the moment I am feeling too annoyed to blog about it (and the ice stadium, *etc*.)
The record of proceedings for this particular debate is at http://www.wales.gov.uk/servlet/ChamberSession?area_code=380313AC00046B17000028C300000000&document_code=N0000000000000000000000000031843&p_arch=post&module=dynamicpages&month_year=5|2005#_Toc104787323 but you are right the Assembly site is dreadful and impossible to search. Not a patch on the Hansard site. I am told it is being improved but I will believe it when I see it.
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