12 Hydref 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Adroddiad Blynyddol a Chyfrifon Comisiwn y Senedd 2022-23
I think we'll have to agree to differ on whether that's an efficient way of doing it. You could have an audit system that went in to check that it had been dealt with effectively. But I'm just talking about paying a public body or a semi-public body, and you…
12 Hydref 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Adroddiad Blynyddol a Chyfrifon Comisiwn y Senedd 2022-23
Well, I think it's inefficient—you probably don't. Why do you need somebody to get my water rates, which come from Welsh Water, and I then send it to MBS, who then send it on? Exactly the same item will get to payments as would have got there if I'd sent it…
12 Hydref 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Adroddiad Blynyddol a Chyfrifon Comisiwn y Senedd 2022-23
Okay. Just a very simple thing. I get the water rates for the office I'm in. I then send them to Members' business support, who send them on to finance to pay them. Why can't I just send them straight to finance to pay it? Why does there have to be an…
12 Hydref 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Adroddiad Blynyddol a Chyfrifon Comisiwn y Senedd 2022-23
I won't repeat some of the things I said last time, you'll be pleased to hear, at the Finance Committee, but is there an opportunity to cut out some stages in the processing? A bit of paper goes from A to B to C to D. If the paper only went from A to D, you'd…
12 Hydref 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Adroddiad Blynyddol a Chyfrifon Comisiwn y Senedd 2022-23
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I think the first thing to say is I would like to continue talking about ways of working. I want to talk about the governance structure for the ways of working strategy and programme. How effective has it been to date?
12 Hydref 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i’w nodi
I certainly will.
12 Hydref 2023 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i’w nodi
I'm content to note. It's just that, for the record, on page 13, 'Other issues', the '£7 higher than the median gross weekly earnings in all industries in Wales' is really not a very big difference. And the term, 'really good, high-paid jobs' in the area…
11 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Bwrdd Taliadau Annibynnol y Senedd
Because I missed the beginning of the meeting I didn't declare that I'm a member of the pension board. I think the remuneration committee know that I'm a member of the pension board, members of this committee know that I'm a member of the pension board, and I…
11 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Bwrdd Taliadau Annibynnol y Senedd
Again, that was the answer I was hoping for and expecting and, yes, I'm happy.
11 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Bwrdd Taliadau Annibynnol y Senedd
At the moment, you undergo a full review of the determination every five years, which makes a lot of sense as we have five-year terms. Will you be moving to four years if we move to four-year terms?
11 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Bwrdd Taliadau Annibynnol y Senedd
Okay. Thank you. Really it was a question for you to pass on to the actuary rather than for you to answer directly.
11 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Bwrdd Taliadau Annibynnol y Senedd
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I've got a question on pensions first. My expectation, and I'm not sure whether you would agree, is that we'll have 36 new Members—that's a fact—we'll probably have 10 to 15 new Members because of retirements, and that means that over half…
11 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Chomisiwn y Senedd
No, I've got nothing to ask.
10 Hydref 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Grŵp 5: Gweithredu rheoliadau o dan adran 10A(1) (Gwelliannau 14, 16, 19, 23, 25)
Hoffwn sôn am welliannau 14 a 23. Rwy'n cefnogi ni'n talu'r cyflog byw gwirioneddol i bob gweithiwr ac rwy'n credu bod hynny'n rhywbeth y dylem ni fod yn ymgyrchu drosto ym mhopeth rydym yn ei wneud. Credaf fod talu pobl llai nag y mae'n bosib byw arno yn…
10 Hydref 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: Rhoi diwedd ar ddigartrefedd yng Nghymru
Rwy'n croesawu'r datganiad gan y Gweinidog yn fawr. Mae digartrefedd yn warth ar unrhyw gymdeithas wâr. Rwy'n croesawu camau'r Llywodraeth a'r gydnabyddiaeth nad cysgu ar y stryd yw ystyr pob digartrefedd; digartrefedd hefyd yw pobl sy'n mynd o soffa i soffa…
10 Hydref 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Gwnes i godi llwyddiant datblygiad SA1 yn Abertawe gyda'r Prif Weinidog mewn cwestiynau diweddar i'r Prif Weinidog, gan dynnu sylw at lwyddiant cwmnïau fel Cyden a Veeqo, yr ymwelodd y Prif Weinidog a minnau â nhw yn ddiweddar. Hoffwn longyfarch Llywodraeth…
5 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Comisiwn y Senedd ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Thank you.
5 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Comisiwn y Senedd ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
I'm glad I can say this will be my final question. I've got no problem with any of that, but, as Peter will say, when he speaks just after me, local authorities have spent a lot of time trying to drive down fixed costs. Although the cost of something has to…
5 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Comisiwn y Senedd ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Thank you, Cadeirydd. This could well be my last question, but I'm loath to say that, because I might want a supplementary after it. But the budget planning: how is it going to be different under the medium-term resource framework, and are you looking for…
5 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Comisiwn y Senedd ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Okay, thank you.
5 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Comisiwn y Senedd ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
And what you're saying is that you're making these in your savings, but they're not recurrent?
5 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Comisiwn y Senedd ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Okay. Thank you very much, Ken. You used the original 2023-24 budget as a baseline when making year-on-year comparisons, rather than the reduced figure included in your supplementary budget. Why?
5 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Comisiwn y Senedd ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
I don't care who is my provider. In fact, I can't remember who it is; it was the cheapest at the time I did it. I don't do annual checks, never mind any more regular checks, on it. Can I just suggest that the Commission asks Members who would want to have it…
5 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Comisiwn y Senedd ar gyfer 2024-25: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Diolch, Cadeirydd. A lot of what I was going to ask has already been answered under your questions. Can I carry on with talking about utility costs? Every Member pays utility costs and they go through a whole process to get reimbursement or to get direct…
5 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Cyflwyniad, ymddiheuriadau, dirprwyon a datgan buddiannau
I've made it before, but I ought to make it when we discuss staff. I chair the Public and Commercial Services Union cross-party group in the Senedd, for which I get no remuneration, but I think it needs to be repeated each time we have these meetings.
