30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
So, we'll move straight on. This is our first session of our inquiry into disability and employment. I'm very pleased to welcome Professor Debbie Foster of Cardiff University, who's done an immense amount of work on this subject. We're very much looking…
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyflwyniad, ymddiheuriadau, dirprwyon a datgan buddiannau
Prynhawn da. Welcome to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. All Members are present. I'd just like to welcome Mick Antoniw as a new member of this committee—your expertise is very much welcome. I'd like to thank Carolyn Thomas for the work she's done…
25 Medi 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl Plaid Cymru: Blaenoriaethau Llywodraeth Cymru
Drwy roi iechyd da yn gyntaf ar y rhestr flaenoriaethau, mae Llywodraeth Eluned Morgan wedi cydnabod yn glir pa mor bwysig yw gwella ein perfformiad ym maes iechyd, gan sylweddoli'n llawn mai dyma'r her fwyaf i leihau'r rhestrau aros am driniaethau a all…
25 Medi 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig: Terfynau cyflymder 20mya
O'r gorau. Diolch yn fawr, Carolyn, oherwydd mae gennyf ddiddordeb yn yr hyn a ddywedwch, fod gan ogledd-ddwyrain Cymru un set o broblemau, oherwydd, o edrych ar yr ystadegau, mae gan Conwy 149 o ffyrdd y maent wedi codi cwestiynau yn eu cylch, ac mae gan sir…
18 Medi 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl Plaid Cymru: Rhestrau aros y GIG
Nid oes unrhyw un yn dweud ein bod wedi cyrraedd, ond yr hyn a ddywedwn yw ein bod wedi gwneud cynnydd. Mae hwn yn fater anodd iawn am sawl rheswm. Fel y dangoswyd yn Saving Lives in Cardiff, ni allwch gael eich derbyn i'r ysbyty i gael llawdriniaeth oni bai…
18 Medi 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl Plaid Cymru: Rhestrau aros y GIG
Hoffwn groesawu'r Ysgrifennydd Iechyd newydd i'w swydd; rwy'n siŵr y bydd yn gwneud gwaith gwych. Mae hwn yn waith anodd. Rwy'n falch iawn ein bod yn cael y ddadl hon. Ond nid yw'r syniad y gallwn fodloni ar ddweud, 'Mae angen gweithredu beiddgar', heb ddweud…
18 Medi 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl ar Ddeiseb P-06-1455, 'Amddiffyn adrannau iau Coleg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru rhag cael eu cau'
Mae’n drasiedi ein bod yn cael y ddadl hon ar ôl i'r coleg brenhinol wneud y penderfyniad i gau’r adran iau. Ac ar un ystyr, mae’n sarhad ar yr holl bobl a drafferthodd arwyddo’r ddeiseb nad oedd y coleg brenhinol yn barod i aros i weld pa atebion y gellid eu…
18 Medi 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyfiawnder Cymdeithasol, y Trefnydd a'r Prif Chwip
Diolch am godi'r mater hwn, Altaf Hussain. Un o'r rhesymau pam ein bod am weld cyfiawnder troseddol yn cael ei ddatganoli yw er mwyn atal mwy o bobl rhag mynd i garchardai, pan fo'n rhaid bod dewisiadau eraill os ydynt yn torri'r gyfraith. Rwyf am ofyn dau…
18 Medi 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Yr Economi Sylfaenol - Panel 2
Thank you. And Ceri, lastly: locally, do the people who deliver your health and social care, on the whole, live locally?
18 Medi 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Yr Economi Sylfaenol - Panel 2
Would you say that the other public bodies that you are working with have been successful in growing their own workforce locally rather than bringing them in from outside?
18 Medi 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Yr Economi Sylfaenol - Panel 2
Professor Williams has talked about encouraging the Welsh Government to focus on strategic sectors like, for example, domiciliary care and growing your own workforce. How much has that been a feature of the activity in both Preston and Blaenau Ffestiniog?…
18 Medi 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Yr Economi Sylfaenol - Panel 2
You said that the procurement regulations are a lot stricter in this country than in Ohio. How do you ensure that local companies get a fair crack of the whip? We heard earlier that postcode localisation doesn't work. How much is it the values that's driving…
18 Medi 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Yr Economi Sylfaenol - Panel 2
No, I wasn't suggesting that at all—absolutely not. I want to look at procurement, and we've not got very much time left. So, how do you procure public goods? How successful are you in procuring public goods locally—Matthew, perhaps I can come to you…
18 Medi 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Yr Economi Sylfaenol - Panel 2
Just picking up from what Ceri was saying, how much of your success is to do with your relative geographical isolation? I've visited you in the past, to look at the way the European funding was benefiting your community. But clearly, you're a community of…
18 Medi 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Yr Economi Sylfaenol - Panel 1
Thank you very much.
18 Medi 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Yr Economi Sylfaenol - Panel 1
Okay. I'm conscious that, Anne, you've been obviously, slightly, because you're not in the room—. Is there anything, any last comments, you want to make on what's the top priority for what we need to get, what we need to change?
18 Medi 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Yr Economi Sylfaenol - Panel 1
Okay, fine. So, the real living wage is something easy to measure. What about all the other things that you, Professor Williams, say are so important around liveability?
18 Medi 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Yr Economi Sylfaenol - Panel 1
But you've got to improve your productivity in order to do it, because there is only so much money in the pot in any organisation.
18 Medi 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Yr Economi Sylfaenol - Panel 1
Can I ask one final question? I think, just to wrap it up, for all of you, how do we use the levers of Government—so things like the real living wage, the shorter working week, the emphasis on good jobs in the foundational economy that you’ve all talked about…
18 Medi 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Yr Economi Sylfaenol - Panel 1
But how do we do that without coming across the rules? I know we’re no longer in the EU, but nevertheless there are procurement rules that don’t allow you to say, ‘You’ve got to be local.’
18 Medi 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Yr Economi Sylfaenol - Panel 1
Thank you. That’s really useful. You talk about smarter procurement, rather than postcode localisation. Could you just explain a little bit more? How do we do smarter procurement? Because we have a system in place at the moment and breaking into that seems…
18 Medi 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Yr Economi Sylfaenol - Panel 1
If we’re talking about values, we’re up against the multinational companies who want to continue to sell us ultra-processed food that’s sending us all to an early death. So, how are we going to overcome that, given that they spend billions on telling you to…
18 Medi 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Yr Economi Sylfaenol - Panel 1
I'm going to be there too.
18 Medi 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Yr Economi Sylfaenol - Panel 1
Professor Williams, Caerphilly never stops mentioning Woosnam's farm as a way in which they helped a small business become a supplier, but the procurement process is so complicated, how would any small local organisation ever break their way into it, given…
18 Medi 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Yr Economi Sylfaenol - Panel 1
Don't worry. I threw it in because—. But is there anything else you want to say before I come to Professor Williams in the first instance, on how we really drive the innovation, if you like, from the grass roots? How do we encourage people to think about how…
