13 Rhagfyr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar drafnidiaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
No, it's a fair point, Huw. I think we can—. I'm very happy to look again at whether the compensation system works effectively, but I do genuinely want to say: this is not about incentivising or fining TfW to do better, we have much better ways to do that…
13 Rhagfyr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar drafnidiaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Yes, yes, for sure.
13 Rhagfyr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar drafnidiaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
I'm happy to look at it again in terms of whether the amount of time is right. But I just want to be really clear. This isn't about incentivising TfW by fining them to do a better job. This is genuinely about compensating the passenger who's had a very bad…
13 Rhagfyr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar drafnidiaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
I guess, Janet, we could have a look at whether the 15 minutes is the most appropriate. I'm certainly happy, if the committee wants us to, to have a look at that. I will say, though, I've also watched James Price’s evidence to the committee. I do just want to…
13 Rhagfyr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar drafnidiaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
We hold their feet to the fire about that all the time. Even there it’s not as straightforward as you’d like. We have this conversation all the time. If you’re letting franchises for coffee shops and so on on the lines and so on, they can get the biggest…
13 Rhagfyr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar drafnidiaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
So, as Peter's already said, Luke, what we've got to do is try and recalibrate it. We've got to try and redo the forecast based on what we now know about passenger numbers, and, indeed, what we now know about capital costs. We spend a lot of time trying to…
13 Rhagfyr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar drafnidiaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Yes, okay. So, there are some quite complicated things going on there. Some of it is reprofiling, as we call it. So, we're moving schemes; we're not stopping them, we're moving them into future years. We're doing that, usually, not because the money isn't—…
13 Rhagfyr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar drafnidiaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
So, the budget’s, obviously, been an exceptionally difficult set of circumstances. For rail in particular, this has been an issue ever since the pandemic hit. So, the current budget difficulty is not the first time that rail has been involved in this. In…
13 Rhagfyr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar drafnidiaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
The last thing I'll say on that as well, though, is that it was clear from, if you remember, last summer—or was it the summer before; my time sense is terrible?—as there were two or three big events in Cardiff, one after the other. That's awful, because then…
13 Rhagfyr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar drafnidiaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
There are a couple of things that I'd just say as an overarching thing. Peter can talk about some of the very specific things. So, there are three things with major events. So, first of all, the stadium in Cardiff is in the middle of the city, which brings…
13 Rhagfyr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar drafnidiaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Over the next month to three months, we've got a whole series of plans for rolling out the rolling stock—forgive me for the pun—and for some other timetable improvements. So, there are specific ones, which Peter can go through, if you like, and then we'll be…
13 Rhagfyr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar drafnidiaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
You're absolutely right, Luke. As Peter said, this is sort of peak disruption. I absolutely understand your cynicism on that, but we have to hold our nerve, because we have to get the rolling stock to come out of the factories and onto the lines, we have to…
13 Rhagfyr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar drafnidiaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
There's a bit more to it than that as well, I think, which I'd really like the committee to understand. Passenger numbers are recovering on the railway, but they're recovering in a different pattern. So, we are going to have to look quite comprehensively at…
13 Rhagfyr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar drafnidiaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
We spend an enormous amount of time with TfW. I'm going to let Peter tell you about the internal discussions, but as part of my management team, we also get the head of TfW and the head of Natural Resources Wales to actually come to the management team so…
13 Rhagfyr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar drafnidiaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Just on that as well, Janet, there have been a series of issues that will make people cynical. So it is, as Peter says, about the storytelling, but it is about how you get the storytelling across that doesn't make people cynical. The new trains, for example…
13 Rhagfyr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar drafnidiaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Thank you, Janet. I think this is what sounds like an easy question disguising quite a complicated set of circumstances, which started from the way that we took over the rail franchise in the first place, followed shortly after by the pandemic and then the…
13 Rhagfyr 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar drafnidiaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Bore da. It's very nice to be here, Cadeirydd. I've got with me Peter McDonald, who is the director of transport—I think that's your official title. Do you want to introduce yourself, Ruth? I've forgotten your title—apologies.
12 Rhagfyr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: Newid Hinsawdd
Allwn i ddim cytuno yn fwy, Carolyn. A diolch yn fawr iawn am ddanfon y cardiau. Rwyf wedi darllen llawer ohonyn nhw ac maen nhw'n ddiddorol iawn. Roeddwn i'n falch iawn o'u casglu. Yr un wnaeth fy nharo fwyaf oedd un gan blentyn 10 oed a ddywedodd, 'Annwyl…
12 Rhagfyr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: Newid Hinsawdd
Rwy'n rhannu eich siom yn llwyr, Llŷr. Mae'r syniad ei bod hi'n bwysicach ategu'r math o nonsens sydd gyda ni yn mynd ymlaen yn Senedd y DU nag yw bod â llais wrth fwrdd un o'r argyfyngau dirfodol—wel, yr argyfwng dirfodol—o'n cyfnod ni wir yn gwbl ryfeddol…
12 Rhagfyr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: Newid Hinsawdd
Diolch yn fawr, Jenny. Felly, mae yna gwpl o faterion fan yna. Ar y pwynt adeiladu tai, mae dau bwynt yna. Mae Llywodraeth y DU yn dal i fynnu codi TAW ar adnewyddu tai, gan gynnwys adnewyddiadau i ddatgarboneiddio, tra bod dim TAW ar adeiladu o'r newydd…
12 Rhagfyr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: Newid Hinsawdd
Oes, diolch, Delyth, digonedd o bethau i fynd trwyddynt yn y fan yna. Felly, dim ond ar 2035, mae gennym y gweithgor yn gweithio'n effeithiol iawn. Mae'n grŵp diddorol iawn o bobl sy'n rhoi o'u hamser i ni oherwydd eu bod yn poeni'n fawr am yr argyfwng…
12 Rhagfyr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: Newid Hinsawdd
Diolch yn fawr, Janet. Felly, yn y bôn, dim ond i grynhoi: rydych chi eisiau parhau i gloddio glo; nid ydych chi'n hoffi coed; nid ydych chi eisiau pontio teg, ond hoffech chi i ni fynd yn gyflymach. Bobl annwyl, lle ydw i'n dechrau dywedwch? Nid wyf yn siŵr…
12 Rhagfyr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: Newid Hinsawdd
'camau cadarnhaol yng Nghymru, gyda ffocws i’w groesawu gan Weinidogion ar sgiliau, swyddi ac ymgysylltu â’r cyhoedd ar gyfer y cyfnod pontio Sero Net.' Yn unol â'r degawd o weithredu rwyf wedi bod yn ei argymell ers i ni gyhoeddi ein cynllun datgarboneiddio…
12 Rhagfyr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: Newid Hinsawdd
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Pan gyhoeddwyd ein rhaglen lywodraethu yn 2021, dywedom y byddem yn ymgorffori'r argyfyngau hinsawdd a natur ym mhopeth a wnawn, a byddem yn adeiladu economi gryfach, wyrddach wrth i ni wneud y cynnydd mwyaf posibl tuag at…
12 Rhagfyr 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: Ansawdd Dŵr
Ie, mae hynny'n bwynt da iawn, mewn gwirionedd, Carolyn. Rwy'n falch iawn o'i gwneud hi'n glir pwy sy'n gyfrifol am beth. Un o'r pethau y mae ein cyd-Aelod Joyce Watson yn ei godi bob amser yw rhoi palmant dros erddi ffrynt, er enghraifft. Mae angen caniatâd…
