Plaid Cymru - standing up for Dwyfor-Meirionnydd

Plaid Cymru Senedd Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Mabon ap Gwynfor and MP Liz Saville Roberts have warned that accessing services at local post offices will become increasingly difficult if the Westminster government doesn’t take immediate steps to strengthen the network.

Mr ap Gwynfor recently met representatives from the National Federation of Sub postmasters (NFSP) at the Senedd, where concerns were shared about the future viability of the network and a need to safeguard key services such as banking and over-the-counter driving licence renewals.

Plaid Cymru Senedd Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Mabon ap Gwynfor has marked the fifteenth anniversary of Wales becoming the first country in the world to be designated a Free Trade Nation.  

Mr ap Gwynfor joined Senedd colleagues at an event in the Senedd to meet Fair Trade supporters and hear about future-plans from Fair Trade Wales.

Plaid Cymru Senedd Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Mabon ap Gwynfor has welcomed assurances from the Chair of BCUHB that Dolgellau Hospital will continue to be a community hospital and play a key role in healthcare provision in Meirionnydd.

Mr ap Gwynfor recently met with newly appointed Chair of BCUHB, Dyfed Edwards and senior managers and staff during a visit to Dolgellau Hospital to discuss the role of the hospital and concerns regarding community health services in south Meirionnydd.

Plaid Cymru MPs and Members of the Senedd representing Gwynedd have urged North Wales Fire Authority to extend a public consultation to allow local people sufficient time to have their say on plans to reform the North Wales Fire & Rescue Service, which could see the closure of 5 stations in northwest Wales.

The North Wales Fire and Rescue Authority is currently running a public consultation on three options for the service, one of which would see the closure of two fire stations in Gwynedd, namely Llanberis and Abersoch, and the loss of 74 fulltime and retained fire fighters across northwest Wales.

Plaid Cymru Senedd Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd and party spokesperson on Health, Mabon ap Gwynfor has warned that patients awaiting ophthalmology treatment in Dwyfor Meirionnydd are at very serious risk of irreversible sight loss.

Welsh government figures reveal 61.9% of ophthalmology patients under the care of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board were waiting beyond the target time for treatment, that’s 24,508 patients.

Plaid Cymru Senedd Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Mabon ap Gwynfor has accused the Welsh Government of facilitating the land-banking of a prime development site in Porthmadog, at the expense of local firms seeking land for expansion.   

The land, situated on the Penamser Industrial Estate has lain empty for nearly 10 years with local businesses barred from applying to develop the site given the Welsh government’s open agreement with Widnes-based developer, Morbaine Ltd. 

Plaid Cymru Senedd Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Mabon ap Gwynfor has accused the Welsh Government of ditching plans to improve road safety on the A494 between Dolgellau and Glan-yr-Afon, despite six serious accidents in the space of 2 months.

Mr ap Gwynfor was assured that work to improve safety on the A494 would begin in 2023 but has now been informed that due to ‘limited resources’ and ‘conflicting priorities’, work is unlikely to be carried out until at least 2025/26. 

Plaid Cymru Senedd Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Mabon ap Gwynfor is urging those who want to make a difference within their community to help support the work of rural mental health charity the DPJ Foundation, who are on the lookout for volunteers.  

The DPJ Foundation is a Wales-based mental health charity which supports those in the agricultural industry and rural communities with mental health problems in an accessible way that suits the specific needs of the individual.

Summer like no other

This has been a summer like no other in the world of politics.

We face a series of interlinked crises, from the cost of living to housing - with the expectation that many millions will fall into poverty and even destitution; the UK is facing a deep recession and inflation is running at the highest it has been in forty years; economically, the world looks at the UK as an emerging economy rather than a developed one; and a bloody war is being fought once again in Europe threatening to engulf us all in a nuclear catastrophe.

Whilst all this is going on, our focus has been diverted to what should be nothing more than a side show, an internal Conservative party election to select their new leader. The narcissists convention eventually selected the vacuous Liz Truss as the new UK Prime Minister, who will simply oversee a continuation of disastrous Conservative policies which have blighted so many lives over the past twelve years.

Whilst people in Wales have been distracted by other things, matters of public importance have gone somewhat unnoticed.

With 73 per cent of the public in favour of a Bill that would criminalise politicians who willingly lie to the British public, Members from all benches need to come together to deliver for our democracy.