21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Wel, dydy Gweinidogion ddim yn gallu newid y gyfraith heb gael cytundeb y Senedd, a dyna pam—
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
I believe it is, Chair. There are subordinate legislation powers in the Bill, but the majority of them are for use through the affirmative procedure. There is more on the face of the Bill than the White Paper suggested. So, we have moved more things into the…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Mae Iwan yn moyn dod i mewn.
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Wel, Cadeirydd, yn y diwedd, mae’r pwerau gyda’r Gweinidogion o dan Ddeddf 2013, pwerau mae’r Gweinidogion yn gallu defnyddio os oes impasse wedi ei gyrraedd. Fel roeddwn i’n dweud yn yr ateb i gwestiwn Natasha, mae hwnna’n rhywbeth ar ddiwedd y dydd. Mae lot…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Thank you to Natasha Asghar for the question, Chair. The biggest challenge at the heart of the Bill is the workforce; it’s to be able to develop a workforce capable of delivering the level of involvement in the Welsh language that the Bill seeks to establish…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
They could have different needs. So, schools will have the right to say, 'We're in 'this category', but we're not making it a requirement to do so, in order to reflect the fact that the children will have different needs.
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Well, the Bill makes it a requirement for schools of that kind to draw up a plan and to have a plan as part of the new system that we're creating. But the Bill doesn't make it a requirement for schools to be in any one category and that just reflects the fact…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
No. The Bill doesn't provide an opportunity for schools to re-use exemptions. So, we've provided exemptions in order to help schools meet the 10 per cent level and those schools have a decade to reach that point. When they are at that level, anything that…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
So, alongside the support that the Bill gives to Welsh-medium education, we use this broader term of 'Welsh language education', because we will not succeed in getting to that 1 million speakers unless we can turn out, from primarily English-medium schools…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Diolch, Cadeirydd, i Adam Price, achos mae hwnna'n bwynt pwysig yn y Bil. Mae'r Bil yn cefnogi addysg drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg, ac rŷn ni eisiau gweld mwy o blant yng Nghymru yn dod i gael addysg drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg, ac mae'r Bil yn gefnogol o hynny. Ond…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Wel, mae'r Bil yn rhoi pwerau i'r Gweinidogion defnyddio ffyrdd o ddata newydd, posibiliadau newydd, sy'n dod atom ni dros yr amser sydd i ddod. Rŷn ni wedi dibynnu ar y cyfrifiad, ond rŷn ni'n gwybod dyw dyfodol y cyfrifiad ddim yn hollol glir. Yn y…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Well, I think you've absolutely illustrated, Chair, the difficulties we would be in if there was a Government definition, that you then had to use what we believed to be the case, rather than, as an individual, being able to describe yourself in different…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
So, it's a fundamental principle, which is now reflected in this Bill, that if Welsh belongs to everybody, then it is for individuals to say whether or not they believe themselves to be speakers of the language, rather than for the Government to instruct them…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Wel, dŷn ni ddim yn diffinio hynny ar wyneb y Bil achos rŷn ni jest yn aros gyda’r egwyddor o hunanddiffiniad.
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Wel, Cadeirydd, mae nifer o bethau yn y Bil, ac maen nhw'n dibynnu ar yr amserlen, ac ambell waith rŷn ni wedi tynnu mwy o hyblygrwydd i ddweud pryd fydd pethau yn digwydd achos y byddan nhw'n dibynnu ar bethau eraill yn y Bil. O flaen y pwyllgor plant…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Wel, dwi'n meddwl mai'r rheswm polisi oedd i ganolbwyntio ar ysgolion ble mae'r Llywodraeth yn gallu cael yr effaith fwyaf. Ac wrth gwrs, mae pobl sy'n mynd i'n hysgolion ni yng Nghymru yn byw yng Nghymru. Nid yw lot o'r plant sy'n mynd i ysgolion preifat yn…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
No.
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Well, Chair, the national institute will operate in just the same way as any other arm's-length body that is established by the Welsh Government. Of course, Natasha is right that the chair and the board will be appointed by Welsh Ministers, but that's not an…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Well, I think that's the ultimate sanction, isn't it? As I said, you would expect the institute to have contract monitoring. It's the way the Welsh Government would monitor grants, in our case, that we make to third sector organisations. You receive regular…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
So, Chair, the relationship is essentially a contractual one. So, the national institute will contract with a number of Welsh language learning providers. You would expect the institute to monitor that contract, to monitor compliance with that contract, and…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
My understanding—and again, I'll make sure that I give you the best information I can—is that the consultation requirements that this Bill sets out essentially reflect the consultation arrangements around the WESPs that were set out in the founding Act, the…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
The obligation is on the school not on the individual, so the school must ensure that a minimum of 10 per cent of the compulsory part of the school day is devoted to the Welsh language. And just to be clear, Chair, that doesn't mean that the whole of that has…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
The purpose of putting the target on a statutory basis—. And, of course, Natasha Asghar is right that that target existed already—so, it's not a new target in that sense. What the Bill does is to give it statutory force, and, in that sense, statutory stature…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
This has been a Bill in gestation for a long time. The original ideas that culminate in the Bill were there in documents that were published and discussed prior to the pandemic, and the pandemic had the same impact on capacity to legislate here as it did on…
21 Hydref 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru): sesiwn dystiolaeth
Thank you, Chair. I might see if Iwan wants to add anything to what I'm going to say. The explanatory memorandum doesn't deal directly with human rights. Of course, this is a Bill that essentially operates within the framework that already exists; children…
