10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
A beth roedd Alun yn ei ddweud o ran y maes iaith a hefyd cynllunio iaith, i wneud mwy gyda'n gilydd yn y maes yna. O ran incwm sylfaenol, mae peilot gyda nhw, mae peilot gyda ni. Maen nhw'n gwario €25 miliwn, mwy neu lai yr un swm rŷn ni'n ei wario ar y…
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
We face a common challenge in designing a consenting regime that enables developments in the Celtic sea while respecting the environmental standards to which we are committed. Those people are in short supply, the skills are rare. They think that in some ways…
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Diolch yn fawr. Y cam cyntaf yw i gael adroddiad llawn gyda'r person sydd wedi bod draw yn Iwerddon ac i dynnu gwersi mas o'r profiadau mae e wedi'u cael, ac o'r llwyfan hynny, i wneud mwy. Mae lot mwy o bosibiliadau, dwi'n meddwl, i rannu pobl rhyngom ni ac…
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Diolch yn fawr. I'll try and be brief because there's a lot to cover there. In terms of immediate priorities under the action plan, here are three, I think, that will have a dominating impact over the coming months. There is Greenlink, the interconnector…
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Wrth gwrs. Wel, does dim lot mwy i'w ddweud na'r hyn dwi wedi'i ddweud yn barod. Rôn i'n trafod hwn gyda Gweinidogion yn Iwerddon yn ôl ym mis Hydref. Mae cytundeb nawr mewn egwyddor i greu rhyw fath o gronfa lle rŷn ni'n rhoi arian i mewn, maen nhw'n rhoi…
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Very happy to share that.
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
There are some facts and figures—thinking back to Mr Giffard's original question—there are some facts and figures that we can provide the committee with on volumes of trades, sectors in which the trade is growing and so on.
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Well, the way in which Cork is very much part of the discussions we have is around the Celtic sea and floating offshore wind. So, a big part of the free-port status for Port Talbot and Pembrokeshire ports is around opportunities in the Celtic sea. I think the…
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
In Cardigan, in Ceredigion, we will be fair, again, and that's money beyond what we talked about, and there are individual opportunities that arise, individual institutions, universities, bid into other pots of money, not just Horizon, with partners in…
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Yes, we are.
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
I believe it is, so I wasn't completely—
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Sorry, Cardigan.
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Cardigan.
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
So, you know the fantastic work that he is involved in. The Welsh Government and the Irish Government are now agreed on funding for Other Voices in Ceredigion again—
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Well, there are funds that both Welsh institutions and Irish institutions draw on beyond what I've talked about. I think—did I see that you met with or heard from Philip King?
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Wel, wrth gwrs, rydym ni wedi'i glywed yn barod oddi wrth bobl yn y maes prifysgolion am y perygl maen nhw yn wynebu, achos mae pobl mewn gwaith nawr heb yr arian i fwrw ymlaen gyda'r gwaith maen nhw'n ei wneud heb gael cysylltiad cryf trwy'r Horizon. Beth…
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Well, I've made that case many times to the UK Government. Many countries that are not in the European Union are able to participate in the four areas that I was advocating for, including inter-territorial co-operation programmes. We would like to do that…
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Just one point, then, which is that the biggest loss of money, of course, is in the inter-territorial co-operation programme. We had €100 million in the last multi-annual financial framework; all of that is gone. We are providing a very modest amount of…
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Of course. Thank you. Members here will know the position of the Welsh Government always was that our future was better secured through membership of the European Union, and nothing that has happened since suggests to me that we got that wrong. But not only…
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Well, my experience of being in Ireland and in other contacts with Irish Ministers and parliamentarians is exactly that—there is a very strongly positive disposition and investment in the relationship. In the end, the shared statement and the action plan is…
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
The glue is the First Minister's office—and Des. He's too modest to say it, but if anybody represents the continuity in our relationship with Ireland, over the whole of devolution, Des has been a continuous presence in it. And that is a very important part of…
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Wel, diolch am hynny, wrth gwrs.
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Well, I think it's a mixture of both. I don't think we are without tangible metrics—you can count the number of trade missions, you can count the number of encounters between Welsh Ministers and Ministers in the Republic and you can count economic indicators…
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Well, that is my responsibility, because I have oversight of our relationship with Ireland and oversight of the shared statement. I don't see it as my job to constrain bilateral activity; I am very glad to see a whole range of Ministers in the Welsh…
10 Mai 2023 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cysylltiadau rhwng Cymru ac Iwerddon: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Prif Weinidog
Thank you. Well, I think, in a way, devolution itself reset the relationship between Wales and Ireland. You saw in the early part of devolution the establishment of a consulate here in Wales. By 2012, we had established our presence in Dublin, in the embassy…
