5 Mawrth 2024 , Committee of the Whole Senedd
Grŵp 3: Mân newidiadau drafftio yn y Gymraeg (Gwelliannau 61, 75, 90, 78, 80, 58)
Llywydd, in replying to the Member, while every effort is made to ensure accuracy in the drafting when a Bill is introduced, it was, as necessary, developed at considerable pace, in order for the Senedd to have the opportunity to scrutinise it in detail and…
5 Mawrth 2024 , Committee of the Whole Senedd
Grŵp 3: Mân newidiadau drafftio yn y Gymraeg (Gwelliannau 61, 75, 90, 78, 80, 58)
Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd. This group of technical amendments corrects the erroneous use of the incorrect terminology 'Aelodau'r Senedd' in the Cymraeg version of the Bill as introduced. Correcting these errors to 'Aelodau o'r Senedd' will help to ensure that…
5 Mawrth 2024 , Committee of the Whole Senedd
Grŵp 2: Effaith pa mor aml y cynhelir etholiadau cyffredinol cyffredin ar benodiadau cyhoeddus (Gwelliant 35)
Diolch, Llywydd. I am grateful to Darren Millar for tabling amendment 35, as it does raise an important point about the implications of a change to the frequency of ordinary general elections for public appointments in Wales. On that point, and as this is the…
5 Mawrth 2024 , Committee of the Whole Senedd
Grŵp 1: Adolygu ffiniau etholaethau’r Senedd: diffiniadau a dehongli, cyfnodau ar gyfer sylwadau, adroddiadau, a gweithredu (Gwelliannau 59, 60, 76, 77, 91, 98, 100, 79, 105, 25, 54, 55, 56, 108, 15, 110, 16, 17, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115)
Yes, moved.
5 Mawrth 2024 , Committee of the Whole Senedd
Grŵp 1: Adolygu ffiniau etholaethau’r Senedd: diffiniadau a dehongli, cyfnodau ar gyfer sylwadau, adroddiadau, a gweithredu (Gwelliannau 59, 60, 76, 77, 91, 98, 100, 79, 105, 25, 54, 55, 56, 108, 15, 110, 16, 17, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115)
Diolch, Llywydd. Firstly, can I just agree with, I think, all Members that this is indeed a historic Bill? We did obviously go through the details of the Bill in the principles debate, so I just want to assert one point, as far as I'm concerned, and as far as…
5 Mawrth 2024 , Committee of the Whole Senedd
Grŵp 1: Adolygu ffiniau etholaethau’r Senedd: diffiniadau a dehongli, cyfnodau ar gyfer sylwadau, adroddiadau, a gweithredu (Gwelliannau 59, 60, 76, 77, 91, 98, 100, 79, 105, 25, 54, 55, 56, 108, 15, 110, 16, 17, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115)
Amendment 110 provides that if a review determines that changes are required to be made to the boundaries of Senedd constituencies, then the Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru's final report must set out the boundaries of all constituencies for which…
5 Mawrth 2024 , Committee of the Whole Senedd
Grŵp 1: Adolygu ffiniau etholaethau’r Senedd: diffiniadau a dehongli, cyfnodau ar gyfer sylwadau, adroddiadau, a gweithredu (Gwelliannau 59, 60, 76, 77, 91, 98, 100, 79, 105, 25, 54, 55, 56, 108, 15, 110, 16, 17, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115)
Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd. I’m delighted to open this, the first of our Stage 2 debates on the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill. It’s a debate in which I believe there is considerable consensus and with a range of amendments, both Government and…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
I haven't. I'll have to write to you separately on that. I don't know.
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Sorry, I missed that last bit.
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Well, overall, the First Minister has the oversight of that, and then much of it comes to the individual portfolios, the ministerial portfolios, and it becomes a collective thing within Government. But my function was to initiate the commission and for it to…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
No, the timescale is starting now and the discussions are taking place now, and they are partly dependent also on discussions within the Senedd, probably discussions within committees as well, obviously discussions on the fact that we'll have a new First…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Okay. Thanks for that. Well, I suppose the first thing to say is that it's still under consideration. Some of the things do require, I think, quite an application of thought as to how you'd bring about changes. Some of the changes are not just in terms of the…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
I can only answer part of that; I don't know whether anyone else here can help more than that. All I can really say on it is this: firstly, there was certainly a backlog of all sorts of financial matters that needed to be resolved, to do with pay deals and so…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Okay. Because the constitution is about the way in which power is exercised. It's about the regulations that exist, not only for the exercise of power, but the distribution of power, and that impacts on everybody's lives. And you're right, people don't wake…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
I think there is a statutory instrument that's under preparation and so on, but that's probably a couple of months away yet.
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Well, it's difficult to say at this moment, because I don't know. Until you have that engagement over it, it's impossible to say. The problem as to where we are now is that we know that agreements have been there, but we don't understand what the full detail…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Yes, into the 20s, and, of course, because they are co-operative agreements between Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and UK Government, the whole basis of them is that there will be buy-in and agreement within all four Governments and that there will then be…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Well, the common frameworks—. And I'm trying to remember how many there are; there are, is it 20—?
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Well, every decision the Government takes is a political decision. So, the fact that we have not been engaged I don't think is an oversight. I don't think it's one of those things where you say, 'Oh, dear. We've forgotten to discuss this with Wales, et…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Well, we know, don't we, that when legislation is coming forward or discussions take place at the UK Government level, there's been a consistent position that's been put from, really, the four nations of the UK at every opportunity that there has to be…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Well, can I just say, I know the First Minister has written, I think, on this, and one of the issues I raised, of course, when we had questions about it in the Senedd recently, was that we didn't have any advance engagement in terms of that paper or in…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
—out of my hands. But, I'm very much in agreement that there's a need for very serious reform of our constitutional relationship.
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
I believe that Wales's best interest is being part of the UK, just like I believe that the UK's best interest was being part of the EU, and that's obviously a decision that's—
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
I might go further and ask you to define what you mean by a 'unionist', but we haven't got time to do that this morning.
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Am I a unionist? Yes.
