28 Tachwedd 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol: Cynnydd Llywodraeth Leol tuag at Sero Net
Felly, byddwn yn ddiolchgar pe gallech roi'r wybodaeth honno i mi.
28 Tachwedd 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol: Cynnydd Llywodraeth Leol tuag at Sero Net
Diolch yn fawr iawn am eich datganiad. Mae'n ddefnyddiol iawn cael yr wybodaeth hon, oherwydd doeddwn i ddim yn gwybod am yr adroddiadau monitro allyriadau blynyddol hyn. Rwy'n ceisio dod o hyd iddynt ar y system; os na lwyddaf, dof yn ôl atoch chi. Does dim…
28 Tachwedd 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Dim ond yr wythnos hon, rydym ni wedi cael ein hatgoffa am effaith pryfleiddiaid o gnydau sy'n cael eu lledaenu fel mater o drefn ac sy'n achosi gostyngiad i gyfrif sberm dynion, ac mae hyn yn amlwg yn cynyddu'r galw gan deuluoedd sydd angen ymyrraeth…
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Just focusing on today's problems, in the meantime, and how well you're going to be able to work with corporate joint committees to maintain bus services when we know that the post-COVID funding is coming to an end, and we've already seen bus services just…
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Okay, fine. Thank you.
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Okay. And there's nothing likely to be announced in a couple of hours' time, so we're just waiting for the next Government. Is that right?
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Okay. But this is what people who represent Newport and Blaenau Gwent, and all that, they're desperate for these lines to enable people to commute into Cardiff or out to wherever, using rail services, so—
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
But the south Wales main line—. Those four lines are the spine of the south Wales metro.
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
So, given the restraints on Network Rail's budgets, this is what I ask them every time I meet them, along with Transport for Wales: is there any light at the end of this particular tunnel?
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Okay. I just want to take us back to the spine of the south Wales metro, which is these four lines that run east from Cardiff.
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Okay. This is important, but I think we could cover this in—
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Perhaps we can have correspondence on the detail of that.
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Thank you. I'll just to come back to the south Wales metro and the £306 million shortfall in what it's estimated to now cost. We can't do much about inflation, COVID and Brexit in this room—that's 70 per cent plus—so, just focusing on the 29 per cent that's…
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Thank you. I want to look at the three metros. First of all, we heard last week, from the stakeholders, that the north Wales and south Wales metros are largely just a concept, and I wonder if you'd just like to comment briefly on that.
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
So how are you going to increase commercial revenue?
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Can you just explain how the £125 million extra funding that the Welsh Government has put into TfW, which, obviously, is taken away from other budgets—? How do you justify that, given that we obviously already provide lots of money for rail?
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Okay. We'll have to move on, I think—
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
I think that's obviously relevant when you're talking to the Welsh Affairs Committee, because Network Rail's budget, would you agree, is simply insufficient for the struggling infrastructure that we have in this country.
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Okay. Thank you for that. I think we probably haven't got time to go further into that. I want to pick up, though, the comments you made when you appeared before the Welsh Affairs Committee in July about whether or not you have confidence in Network Rail…
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Just like people. [Laughter.]
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Related to this, when we talked to stakeholders last week, they said that they thought because you were new operators you hadn't realised that new trains will always have teething problems and that you thought the minute they came out of the factory, you'd be…
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Hallelujah. We—
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Thank you. I wonder if you could just tell us a bit more about the implications of your timetable review, which is December 2023. You've already spoken about the need to stop competition between bus and rail on the same route, but I wonder if you could just…
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Yes, I'm very pleased to see you're focusing on the number of female train drivers, because obviously, when you're talking to children, they think about people who drive trains or drive buses, and I wonder if you could speak not just about the success of that…
22 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu blynyddol ar Drafnidiaeth Cymru
Is there a reason why the sickness rate across the industry seems to be so much poorer than pre COVID?
