21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Diolch yn fawr. Dwi eisiau jest edrych ar gydbwysedd y pwerau sydd yn bodoli ac yn cael eu creu yn y Bil yma. Mae yna dros, dwi'n credu, 30 o bwerau newydd sy'n cael eu creu i Weinidogion fel rhan o'r Bil, a dwi'n awyddus i ddeall os ydy'r Gweinidog yn…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Roeddwn i'n meddwl efallai fod Bethan eisiau ychwanegu rhywbeth.
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar y Bil Dŵr (Mesurau Arbennig): sesiwn dystiolaeth
I understand that, but that's where we were in 1999.
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar y Bil Dŵr (Mesurau Arbennig): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Nobody's arguing about that, and I don't want to carry on, because I know time is short, but the issue is, Deputy First Minister, that we've got a legislature just across the corridor there to do all of those different things, and, as you well know, when…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar y Bil Dŵr (Mesurau Arbennig): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Politically, you should know that of me. And I think leaping on an opportunity to achieve an objective is something that I have no issue with, and there's clearly going to be more commonality of interest between a UK Labour Government and a Welsh Labour…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar y Bil Dŵr (Mesurau Arbennig): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Yes. Look, I've no issue with opportunism, by the way. [Laughter.]
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar y Bil Dŵr (Mesurau Arbennig): sesiwn dystiolaeth
But the LCM says something different, and that's my issue.
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar y Bil Dŵr (Mesurau Arbennig): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Can I return to your original arguments? I accept what you're saying, but I think we also need to accept that this is not an act of God, but this is an act of Ministers taking decisions to do exactly what you're suggesting they've done. But you seem to be…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar y Bil Dŵr (Mesurau Arbennig): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Yes, of course.
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar y Bil Dŵr (Mesurau Arbennig): sesiwn dystiolaeth
I've got no issue with that and we've both heard Ministers making that argument on numerous occasions. I accept that completely. But I'm uncomfortable with the decision you've taken on this, if I'm quite honest, because I'm not convinced—I was going to say…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar y Bil Dŵr (Mesurau Arbennig): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Yes, poacher turned gamekeeper was exactly what was going through my mind on reading the LCM, I have to say. I think your argument would be stronger, Minister, had Welsh Ministers previously been making these points. Now, I don't remember either you or other…
17 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chyrff diwylliannol (6)
Okay. I'm grateful to you for that. Thank you.
17 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chyrff diwylliannol (6)
That's interesting.
17 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chyrff diwylliannol (6)
Yes, €134 million compared with what we have here in Wales.
17 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chyrff diwylliannol (6)
But they, of course—. I’m looking at colleagues again to correct me if I get my numbers wrong, but the funding for the Arts Council of Ireland was €134 million.
17 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chyrff diwylliannol (6)
Yes, we were in Dublin a couple of weeks ago.
17 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chyrff diwylliannol (6)
—Tony Blair idea of health spending.
17 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chyrff diwylliannol (6)
That's a very good way of putting it, actually. It's like the—
17 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chyrff diwylliannol (6)
Okay, time is against us. I appreciate what is being said by all our witnesses. This is a difficult question, which I’m going to frame quite badly, I think: at what level do you think we should be funding the arts? And I don’t want you just to pick numbers…
17 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chyrff diwylliannol (6)
Okay.
17 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chyrff diwylliannol (6)
We do. We've got an arts and culture deputy Minister. I don't—
17 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chyrff diwylliannol (6)
But that's my point, you see—that's my point. We tick the boxes—and I've never heard a Minister in the Welsh Government not talk about culture at some point; I've done it myself—but when it comes to voting on the budget, which is the real declaration of a…
17 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chyrff diwylliannol (6)
Okay. I don't disagree with you, by the way. I'll ask Robin to come in if I get this wrong, but I think it's fair to say that the Welsh Government has not funded the arts and culture sector in the same way as, say, Scotland or the Republic of Ireland, in…
17 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chyrff diwylliannol (6)
Anyone else?
17 Hydref 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Effaith gostyngiadau cyllid ar ddiwylliant a chwaraeon: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chyrff diwylliannol (6)
The funding.
