James Evans believes a royal commission should be set up to help fix social care in the UK.

The Brecon and Radnorshire MS said everyone at the Senedd knows that to fix the NHS, we have to fix social care.

He told First Minister, Eluned Morgan: “We've heard about delayed discharges and the issues between health boards and local authorities arguing about who is paying for the care of individuals once they are discharged from hospital.

“This has gone on long enough. It has become, I believe, too much of a political football being kicked back and forth. It needs sorting once and for all.

“I'm a firm believer that we need a royal commission to look at how social care is structured and how it works, not just here in Wales, but across the whole of the United Kingdom.

“I can see the Cabinet Health Secretary shaking his head, but I don't think he's come up with any ideas yet of how we sort out social care across our country.

“Do you agree that what we need to do is have that royal commission that takes those independent voices a step back away from politics to bring forward recommendations on how we can sort out social care once and for all?

“Unfortunately, the way we're doing it now is not working.”

Ms Morgan said there is a group working at the UK level on this already.

She told Mr Evans: “We are talking to them about what exactly is going on in relation to that.”