15 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar ddarpariaeth a pherfformiad y rheilffyrdd
Yes, but some of these things are outside the control of the operator, so is this a model that's really going to deliver?
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar ddarpariaeth a pherfformiad y rheilffyrdd
Okay. But that's money being taken out of investing in new trains. It's—
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar ddarpariaeth a pherfformiad y rheilffyrdd
Okay. And what about this argument about it's an unsustainable model?
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar ddarpariaeth a pherfformiad y rheilffyrdd
Who’d run a service when you have to repay passengers after a 15-minute delay? Isn't that just a completely unsustainable model, in the sense that—? Some of these things can be down to inefficiency and poor performance, but some of them are due to…
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar ddarpariaeth a pherfformiad y rheilffyrdd
Okay, because in your paper you point out that seasoned rail managers know that trains rarely work properly out of the box—you've got to run them in. Surely, somebody could have pointed that out to them. If you're capable of doing it, surely somebody else is…
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar ddarpariaeth a pherfformiad y rheilffyrdd
See HS2, passim. How much of this new responsibility that TfW took on from KeolisAmey during COVID is down to their inexperience of managing locomotives and rolling stock? Are they planning upgrades in the most efficient manner?
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar ddarpariaeth a pherfformiad y rheilffyrdd
I'll move on to my substantive question, which is about the infrastructure constraints. Obviously, that particular issue is writ large on the south-east Wales metro. James Price told the Welsh Affairs Committee, when being questioned about the metro being…
15 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth ar ddarpariaeth a pherfformiad y rheilffyrdd
Thank you for making that useful distinction. I represent Cardiff Central, so, obviously, I'm focused on south-east Wales. The Burns report has the four lines running between Cardiff and Newport and beyond as the spine of the south-east Wales metro. Clearly…
14 Tachwedd 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: Anghenion Seilwaith Trawsyrru Trydan Cymru ar gyfer Sero Net
Roeddwn i eisiau cyfeirio at rywbeth y gwnaethoch chi sôn amdano yn eich datganiad am y ceblau y mae'r Almaen yn eu defnyddio, ac y gwnaethoch chi sôn amdano hefyd yn eich ymateb i Janet Finch-Saunders, oherwydd rydym yn gwybod bod yr Almaen wedi bod yn…
9 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Ansawdd dŵr - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ofwat
Okay.
9 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Ansawdd dŵr - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ofwat
Okay, yes. I'd just like to—. We've taken evidence separately from the Office for Environmental Protection, Glenys Stacey—I was impressed with her approach: forget the fines, go for the enforcement. How much is Wales lacking in enforcement heft as a result of…
9 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Ansawdd dŵr - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ofwat
Okay.
9 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Ansawdd dŵr - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ofwat
Okay, so it is true that absolutely no money went with this additional responsibility.
9 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Ansawdd dŵr - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ofwat
Yes, of these private sewers.
9 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Ansawdd dŵr - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ofwat
Okay, and a related issue is that, in 2011, the UK Government transferred all these assets to Dŵr Cymru, but no money went with them, from what I got to understand yesterday from the Minister. What role do you have in ensuring that the UK Government is fairly…
9 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Ansawdd dŵr - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ofwat
Okay, sticking with Dŵr Cymru, they told us that although they have very expensive bills, they have one of the cheapest water bills, that it's the sewage bills that drive up the costs, and that they and south-west England have these very high costs related to…
9 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Ansawdd dŵr - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ofwat
Okay, but some would say that Ofwat's been sleeping on the job, because this has been going on, this wholesale export of all the profits elsewhere—. They're gone. You know, these are all foreign companies in the main, apart from Dŵr Cymru. And so you're very…
9 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Ansawdd dŵr - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag Ofwat
In your PR24 framework, you say that you're going to be setting clear requirements for dividends and executive pay policies. There are no dividends going out the window with Dŵr Cymru, but executive pay policies—. I mean, the top man is getting about six…
9 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Ansawdd dŵr - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chyfoeth Naturiol Cymru
Okay. I think, basically, this committee, as opposed to the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee, is pretty upset at the watering down of the proposals to have a licensing scheme. I just wondered if you could just briefly tell us what is the impact of…
9 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Ansawdd dŵr - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chyfoeth Naturiol Cymru
What role does NRW have in educating farmers as to when and whether it's necessary put phosphate on the land, given that there's so much of it stored out there already?
9 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Ansawdd dŵr - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chyfoeth Naturiol Cymru
Okay, that you were mentioning earlier.
9 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Ansawdd dŵr - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chyfoeth Naturiol Cymru
Okay. So, leaving that to one side, what else are you doing to actually really tackle this issue? We know it's really complicated and it's down to our propensity to chuck phosphate at absolutely everything, and that's going back 70 years. What else is…
9 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Ansawdd dŵr - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chyfoeth Naturiol Cymru
So, why are they waiting? Or is it because you're not satisfied that it's actually going to do what it says on the tin?
9 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Ansawdd dŵr - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chyfoeth Naturiol Cymru
Okay. On the specific scheme that was mentioned by Dŵr Cymru, which was the Clwydian scheme, I'm not familiar with it, but they said they were waiting on your approval to get this going, because they were working with farmers to have an alternative way of…
9 Tachwedd 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Ansawdd dŵr - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chyfoeth Naturiol Cymru
Yes, absolutely.
