17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
I accept that—
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
It appears to me that this is a real national emergency, because the issues we are talking about with the museum and the library, in particular, are not issues that have arisen in this particular year or last year, they are issues that have arisen over a…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
But that's not my starting point as the Minister dealing with arm's-length bodies. It may well be that it comes to that point, but the appropriate way for me to deal with bodies that I'm responsible for in Government is to have those private conversations to…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
Public scrutiny is quite an important part of that process.
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
And the national museum as well, yes.
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
Well, it should reach the public, surely.
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
Sorry, can I say: why isn't it appropriate in public? Because this is public funding, these are public matters, a matter of public policy. Surely, if there are issues of the type that you're describing, then that's a proper subject for public debate as well.
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
—just by saying it is a moving situation, as we can see? It's very fluid. It may be useful for the committee to pursue this matter with the Minister by correspondence.
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
I can see Huw wants to come in. Can I just conclude my section—
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
So, there's no conversation taking place between the Welsh Government and the arts council about a transition, if you like, or a—
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
I'm grateful to you for that, Minister. Let's just crystallise what you've just said then. So, we've been through the process of the investment review with the arts council, and the arts council have taken some difficult decisions and we've seen the…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
Yes.
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
Yes, I understand.
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
No, I wasn't actually. I was going to come onto it, as it happens, but—.
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
We've covered much of that ground in previous questions, but I think we need to test this just a little bit more, because as the Minister pointed out in his opening remarks, there are consequences to decisions. Decisions that you are taking on budgets now…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
The Minister’s tempting me to a debate around taxation, which I will resist this morning. [Laughter.]
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
Yes, I agree with you.
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
That’s not what the Act says.
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
Okay, let’s conclude this segment of the session with a question about how the decisions that you’ve explained—. And I recognise the power of the argument, I have no issue with any of that, but how does that sit with the wider Welsh Government’s position with…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
I understand. Let’s take, for example—. The members of the committee had a letter yesterday from Nick Lock, who was discussing the impact, the potential impact, of cuts to the Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum in Caernarfon. Now, Caernarfon is a town that relies…
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
I fully accept that, but let's look again at some of those overlaps. I don't disagree with your broad analysis about socioeconomics; we've debated it enough times. But the cuts that you are making in these areas will have economic impacts as well.
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
I absolutely accept that. I represent a small authority that has less means of raising its own funding—
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
Former deputy leader.
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
I accept that.
17 Ionawr 2024 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Dirprwy Weinidog y Celfyddydau, Chwaraeon a Thwristiaeth a Gweinidog yr Economi
I completely accept and agree with the overall budget narrative that the Government has provided. I think there is a diminishing spend available to Welsh Government, and Welsh Government is not at the moment in a place where it wants to raise its own income…
