21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag academyddion
I can now, yes.
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag academyddion
I think I've frozen.
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag academyddion
Okay. Dr Petetin, you, in your written evidence, note that organic or environmentally friendly farmers would struggle to meet some of the requirements of the scheme. And I wondered if you could just elaborate on that.
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag academyddion
The other issue that we face is that I think it's probably a minority of farmers who are actually members or any of the organisations who are representing their members. How many people are not a member of either the NFU, the FUW or the tenant farmers and…
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag academyddion
Okay. Lots of issues there. Could I just ask Professor Donnison to enter into this discussion as well, because in your paper you're saying quite clearly that the world is moving on anyway and we absolutely have to look at new crops, new agriculture and less…
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag academyddion
Thank you very much. Thank you, Dr Petetin, for pointing out that big farmers and dairy farmers seem to be the most vocal, at the moment, against the sustainable farming scheme, because, of course, they have the most to lose. So, how do we focus on a just…
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda sefydliadau amgylcheddol
Thank you. I just wanted to look at the issue for small farms. Obviously, the eligibility criteria has been reduced to 3 hectares. But that still disadvantages new businesses, particularly horticulture. You don't need a lot of land to produce quite a large…
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda sefydliadau amgylcheddol
I just wanted to point out that Dr Petetin is saying that the most vocal anti-tree protesters have tended to be dairy producers and/or big farmers, and there's a danger that we shift the dial on how we approach this, which may not be equitable, given that…
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda sefydliadau amgylcheddol
Dr Ludivine Petetin from Cardiff University, who is an expert in agri-environmental issues, who we're going to be hearing from later on this afternoon, is arguing that a one-size-fits-all approach doesn't really work, and that's, in particular, in relation to…
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda sefydliadau amgylcheddol
So, what you're saying is it's not sustainable unless there's funding to go with it.
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda sefydliadau amgylcheddol
Given what you warn, though, in the way that the reduced funding for the Habitat Wales scheme is already causing some agri-ecological farms to scale back their ambition, that's quite a significant statement, in that we're hoping that we're all moving towards…
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda sefydliadau amgylcheddol
I want to look at how we influence farmers to do the right thing. In your evidence, the Soil Association is saying that there's been insufficient incentive to reduce manufactured fertiliser use on the scale that's needed to restore soil health. Given that…
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chynrychiolwyr ffermio
Yes, the final issue that I think is important to address is that Wales Environmental Link says that if we fail to effectively integrate increased tree cover into the SFS, the significant risk remains that the current trend of land conversion continues, by…
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chynrychiolwyr ffermio
Okay. I just wanted to remind Rachel and everybody else that, obviously, orchards are not deemed to be trees in perpetuity, and I just wondered if farmers have considered that as a way of meeting a 10 per cent tree cover and also producing fruit, because the…
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chynrychiolwyr ffermio
So, do you think, because we've got the one-size-fits-all approach to this, these universal actions, everybody has to do it? Obviously, Dr Petetin has said that one-size-fits-all may not be the right approach. Do you think that might be a way of addressing…
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chynrychiolwyr ffermio
However, we have a major issue with the potential for flooding. It hasn't stopped raining since November, and it's also about trees as flood mitigation, so I wondered if the others could bear that in mind in their answers.
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chynrychiolwyr ffermio
One of the things that has caused quite a lot of comment is the proposal for 10 per cent tree cover. It meets the Daily Mirror test, it's easy to understand that concept. So, why is it, do you think, so difficult for all farms, wherever they're located, to…
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chynrychiolwyr ffermio
You were producing vegetables in the 1960s and 1970s. Since then, hydroponics have really taken off, and yet I don't think I've seen any mention of hydroponics at all in any of the submissions of evidence that we have in front of us. That has to be part of…
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chynrychiolwyr ffermio
I think this idea of universal actions is a bit of a misnomer, because it very much depends on the type of farm you've got. You're not actually being required to do all 17 of these universal actions.
21 Mawrth 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynigion Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer Cynllun Ffermio Cynaliadwy (SFS): sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda chynrychiolwyr ffermio
Thank you. The first objective in the agriculture Act is to produce food and other goods in a sustainable manner, and one of the things we've got to do, as we change things, is to improve our food security. Rachel, you and I have had discussions on the need…
19 Mawrth 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Grŵp 4: Rhan 3—Gwneud cais am gydsyniad seilwaith: Y weithdrefn cyn gwneud cais a’r weithdrefn gwneud cais (Gwelliannau 26, 27, 32, 28, 33, 1, 11)
Yn gyntaf, hoffwn atgoffa'r Aelodau o'm buddiannau datganedig yn Siemens ac Awel Aman Tawe, y mae'r ddau ohonynt yn ymwneud â busnes cynhyrchu ynni adnewyddadwy. Hoffwn hefyd ychwanegu fy nheyrnged i Julie James am arwain mor fedrus ar y Bil seilwaith hwn…
19 Mawrth 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad a Chyhoeddiad Busnes
Dau fater: rwy'n gobeithio ein bod ni i gyd—neu o leiaf y rhan fwyaf ohonom ni—wedi cael ein syfrdanu gan sylwadau Frank Hester yn erbyn yr Aelod Seneddol hirsefydlog, Diane Abbott. Wrth i ni baratoi ar gyfer ein Prif Weinidog du cyntaf, Diane Abbott sydd…
18 Mawrth 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Llywodraethiant Gwasanaethau Tân ac Achub: panel 7
One of the witnesses we heard from last week said that it was really all about money, that so long as there was more money in the system, that would work out. It was pointed out that there is no more money. So, is nothing going to happen unless there's more…
18 Mawrth 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Llywodraethiant Gwasanaethau Tân ac Achub: panel 7
Okay. I'll hand back to my colleagues to probe this a bit further.
18 Mawrth 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Llywodraethiant Gwasanaethau Tân ac Achub: panel 7
Co-location is the easy bit, really; it's much more about bringing the work together to perhaps spread it out more evenly. You talk about the huge numbers of calls that you're making every day, and we are fully aware of the strain that the ambulance service…
