11 Gorffennaf 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Llywydd, mae'r cwmni wedi cadarnhau y bydd logisteg ac ymchwil a datblygu ym Mhen-y-bont ar Ogwr yn parhau. Felly, mae gennym ni hynny yn uniongyrchol gan y cwmni. Nid wyf i'n rhannu'r un pesimistiaeth â'r Aelod am ddyfodol pobl ifanc yng Nghymru. Mae gan…
11 Gorffennaf 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Llywydd, diolchaf i'r Aelod am y cwestiwn pellach yna. Rwyf i wedi gweld y llythyr a lofnodwyd gan yr Arglwydd Johnson, y Gweinidog Buddsoddi yn yr Adran Busnes a Masnach, ar y cyd ag Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru i'r cwmni, yn gofyn iddyn nhw fod ar gael ar…
11 Gorffennaf 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Wel, Dirprwy Lywydd, mae'r Aelod dros Ogwr yn codi cyfres lawn o bwyntiau pwysig iawn yn y fan yna ar ran y gweithlu teyrngar iawn a llwyddiannus iawn hwnnw, ac, yn wir, y synnwyr hwnnw o gwmni sydd wedi colli ei ffordd braidd yn ddiweddar o ran cynnal ei…
11 Gorffennaf 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Dirprwy Lywydd, mae cyfarfod yn cael ei drefnu rhwng Gweinidog yr Economi a'r Ysgrifennydd Gwladol yn yr Adran Busnes a Masnach i drafod y bwriad i gau ffatri Zimmer Biomet ym Mhen-y-bont ar Ogwr. Blaenoriaeth Llywodraeth Cymru yw gwneud popeth o fewn ein…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
Well, that was the point, I think, of the letter, signed, as I said, jointly in April of this year, between the UK Government and ourselves: to seek further assurances from the board that it is turning those projects into delivery on the ground at a speed and…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
Diolch am y cwestiwn, achos mae tensiynau yna, fel roedd adroddiad WISERD yn dangos. Beth rydym ni'n ei wneud, rydym ni'n dal i gydweithio â Llywodraeth y Deyrnas Unedig ar y fargen dwf. Roedd llythyr wedi cael ei lofnodi gan Vaughan Gething a'r Gweinidog yn…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
Yes. The purposes for the site do absolutely need to be aligned with the wider ambitions for the economy of the island, which I think are really exciting. I'm one of those people who really thinks that, if things go as we want them to go, there are such…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
Okay, thank you, Mark. On the first question, I will ask Elin to make sure—. The lived experience of people with visual impairments and other impairments ought to be built in from the very beginning because you learn so much directly from hearing from them…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
Well, Llywydd, I'm ill-equipped to enter into a debate on football with Jack Sargeant, but I want to echo one point. I should have said in my original answer 'the importance and success of women's football in Wrexham over the last season', as well as the…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
Well, there is a one-word answer to the first part of John Griffiths's question, Chair: the reason is Brexit. The hubs were supported directly through funding from the European Union. That funding is no longer in the hands of the Welsh Government. It was…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
I think that the Kop stand development is due for completion in time for the 2024-25 season. That's not far off, so there are some reasonably short-term timescales for part of the Gateway project. The Welsh Government does work with the local authority but…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
Well, Chair, Wrexham has been in the spotlight internationally in a way that would have been very hard to have imagined only a few years ago. It's an astonishing success story of the football club but of its owners as well, who I think have shown a genuine…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
Of course, I agree with that completely. You could not be unaware of the food security issues on Ynys Môn because of all the things that we are now having to do in terms of post-Brexit trade to make sure that flows of goods in and out of Holyhead are tested…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
First of all, Chair, just to acknowledge the impact that the closure of the 2 Sisters factory has had on the island. An employer with that number of jobs in a relatively small, local economy was very real. I commend the commitment that the local authority has…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
I think displacement is one of the big issues you have to think about in free ports altogether. Free ports, just to be clear, are not a policy of the Welsh Government; they're a policy of the UK Government, where we have been able to work successfully…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
Of course, Chair, I would take issue with the whole series of propositions that Mr Rowlands puts forward as though they were matters of fact when they're nothing of the sort. There are more road schemes going ahead in mid and north Wales than in any other…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
The bus service in Wales is subsidised by the public purse, one way or another, well north of £100 million every year. What the bus Bill is designed to do is to make sure that that subsidy is used to the maximum possible effect, because we don't believe that…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
Well, Chair, I was fortunate enough—. I was in north Wales earlier this year for the north Wales Cabinet committee, where Lord Burns came and talked directly to us about his interim report and its findings, and he focused a lot in his presentation on the way…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
Well, to be fair, you have to look at the circumstances as they were then, rather than as they are now. Nobody anticipated a pandemic. Nobody, I would guess, was anticipating that we would be leaving the European Union, with all the pressures that has put on…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
It is more than that. There are a series of things that I could share with you, but they're all well-known to members of the committee. There was the immediate difficulty of the failure in parts of the 175 fleet, a fleet that was being retired over time in…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
No, it's not. No, I've said. I repeated—pardon me, Chair—I repeated my answer to Jack Sargeant that the experience that rail users have had in parts of the Transport for Wales network isn't good enough, and the improvement plan needs to be implemented and…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
I want to make a distinction, if I can, Chair, between the people we work with day in, day out at Network Rail, where I think we have a good relationship, and Transport for Wales works closely with them. In that, 'What can we do within the constraints that…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
It is, Chair. Transport for Wales is the operator of last resort in Wales. When contracts, franchises, come up for renewal, we are hamstrung in that the section of the Act that Jack Sargeant refers to means that a not-for-profit provider, a public provider…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
Well, Chair, let me agree with what I think is the fundamental point that Jack Sargeant is making, which is that the problems of the railways in Wales are problems of underinvestment—problems of long-term underinvestment; investment that we see going on in…
7 Gorffennaf 2023 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gogledd Cymru
Well, Chair, first of all, to acknowledge as I did on the floor of the Senedd only a week or so ago that the service on the line has not been satisfactory. It has not been what it needs to be, and the Deputy Minister, as you know, went and met the people who…
