19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Chair, I realise, in listening to Lesley's question, that I don't think I've referred to the code once in giving evidence to you. The code, in a way, is the golden thread of this Bill. The code that it will establish is how we will link that experience that a…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, I am very keen to learn from the committee's work on the Bill. There will be further iterations of the explanatory memorandum as the Bill makes its way through the Senedd. It takes us back, in a way, to the very first questions from Cefin about whether…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
On that last point, of course, Lesley Griffiths is quite right to point to the risks that that could happen. The difference between the two, though, I think is clear enough. The commission for tertiary education is just that: it is tertiary, it is…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Diolch am y cwestiwn. Mae'n mynd at rywbeth sydd trwy'r Bil i gyd, sef beth dŷn ni eisiau creu fan hyn yw disgwyliadau sy'n rhesymol ond uchelgeisiol hefyd. So, mae rhyw fath o sbectrwm yna, onid oes? Dŷn ni ddim eisiau jest cael Bil sy'n mynd ymlaen gyda…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
We’re very alert to exactly that. The purpose of the Bill is to address the feelings that we know have been there from young people who’ve gone through compulsory Welsh in an English-medium school who feel at the end of it that they’ve not got anything…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
I'll just begin by saying that I think the points that Lee has raised about consultation are important ones that the committee would find useful. We can put a note together drawing together the requirements that the Bill sets out for consultation, and how…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Gallaf ofyn i Bethan ateb hynny.
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, first of all, to emphasise the point that was made in the question, there is a challenge in recruiting the number of people we need with the linguistic ability to teach through the medium of Welsh and to teach Welsh in other schools. My colleague the…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Because the exploration that went on around the White Paper really revealed the fact that the Welsh Ministers have this power already. So, it's a general principle—Iwan will be much more eloquent on this than me—a general principle of good law making that you…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, it doesn't reflect a change in ambition. The ambition is the one I've just tried to set out. We tested this as part of the White Paper consultation process. Now, here is something that some of us who were involved in this at the very beginning would not…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Thank you for the question. That was the point I was very briefly referring to earlier. It does set out a much clearer structure through which there's a line of sight between the ambitions that the Senedd sets in this area and the way that those ambitions are…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
No, the Bill provides for two extensions and no further extension. By the time we get to the end of the second extension—. There is an indicative timeline in the explanatory memorandum, which, if Members haven't all had a chance to see, we can circulate…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Lee, thank you. I’ll probably ask Bethan to say something in a minute, but your question has pinpointed something that I haven’t had a chance to say anything about yet, and, Chair, if you know that there are questions still to come that will cover this, I’ll…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Thank you, Chair. I want to make one general point, if I could, in answering this question, and it's a contested area—not everybody around the table will share exactly the same views on it. As I've said a couple of times, I think one of the great advantages…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, it's very important for me to say, Chair, that nothing in this Bill in any way undermines the importance of the work that is done to encourage the use of Welsh beyond the statutory curriculum. We've already talked a bit already today about how that can…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Thank you, Chair. Well, what I think is meant by that in the EM is this: we are in the very fortunate position in Wales that there is a real enthusiasm in our local authorities for the ambition that we have as a Government, a real enthusiasm for the language…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Ydw, dwi yn. Ac mae'n gymhleth, a dwi ddim yn siŵr bod ateb terfynol gyda ni eto, ond mae ateb gyda ni.
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Wel, ar y pwynt olaf, Cefin, ble dwi'n dechrau yw dwi ddim yn meddwl bod bron neb yng Nghymru sydd ddim yn gallu siarad Cymraeg. Dyna ble dwi'n dechrau. Yr heddlu yn y gogledd, nhw sydd wedi gwneud y gwaith mwyaf yn y maes yma. Maen nhw'n dweud does neb yn…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Diolch, Cefin. Y fframwaith cyffredinol yw un o'r pethau sydd mor gyffrous i ni yn y Bil, achos rŷn ni'n mynd i ddefnyddio rhywbeth sy'n newydd sbon i ni ond ddim yn newydd sbon o gwbl i bobl eraill yn Ewrop, ble maen nhw wedi defnyddio'r fframwaith mewn…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
I think that the situation is improving and changing. As chance would have it, I went to Ysgol Gymraeg Nant Caerau in Ely last Friday, and it was wonderful to see a school full of families who had chosen to send their children to a Welsh-medium school. They…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Rhaid i mi ddweud, a dwi ddim wedi dweud hwn yn barod, yr uchelgais yn y strategaeth yw i gael miliwn o siaradwyr ond i ddyblu defnydd yr iaith hefyd. Dydyn ni ddim yn tynnu sylw at hwnna fel arfer, ond mae hwnna'n hollol bwysig hefyd—nid jest i gael mwy o…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, Chair, I'll turn to English for this bit of it. So, the work between the Office for National Statistics and our own knowledge and analytical services has been set in train. I was very grateful to Sir Ian Diamond, as the chair of ONS. He recognised very…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Wel, mae'n bwysig i bob adroddiad helpu'r llall i wneud y gwaith maen nhw eisiau'i wneud. Ar y pwynt am bethau mewnol, y pethau rŷn ni'n gofyn i Weinidogion Cymreig eu gwneud, yw i ddangos yn glir i bobl beth sydd wedi digwydd gyda'r pethau sydd yn nwylo'r…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Wel, dwi ddim yn meddwl bydd pobl yn colli siawns i graffu os byddai'r adroddiad wedi dod mas yn y flwyddyn cyn y tymor, so, bydd rhywbeth yno i'w graffu. Wrth gwrs, mae hwnna wedi bod yn rhan o'r trafodaethau wrth baratoi'r Bil. Mae nifer o ffactorau yn y…
19 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Wel, does dim byd yn y Bil i arafi bobl rhag dod at y targed, so dŷn ni ddim yn mynd i ddweud, 'Slow down'. [Chwerthin.] Os ŷn ni'n gallu cyrraedd y targed cyn 2050, wrth gwrs, bydd hwnna'n rhywbeth i'w ddathlu, a bydd y Llywodraeth ar y pryd yn gallu…
