15 Tachwedd 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Cwestiynau nawr gan arweinwyr y pleidiau. Arweinydd y Ceidwadwyr, Andrew R.T. Davies.
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Prynhawn da, bawb, a dyma ni yn cychwyn y cyfarfod gyda'r eitem gyntaf, sef cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog, ac mae'r cwestiwn cyntaf gan Joel James.
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
Ydy. Ydy, a nid ar gyfer Rheolau Sefydlog fyddai hwnna, ond ar gyfer y ddeddfwriaeth, ond nid mater i'r Pwyllgor Busnes yw e ar y pwynt yma, ond mae yn ddadl ynglŷn â beth yw closed list, Jane, ac rwyt ti a fi'n agos iawn yn ein meddyliau ar hynna, efallai…
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
Yes, that's a very good point, David, and, for us to remind ourselves, even though I'm in the company here of party whips, primarily—of business managers—who are all about, in their DNA, party control—it's important to remember that Members leaving groups is…
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
David.
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
No, that's clear and understood. Diolch, Jane. Because a closed list system is that the party puts forward their chosen list and the voter has no ability to choose from within that list. The point of discussion, really, is whether the list will be on the…
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
No, no.
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
—ways where groups and Members have already exercised their ways of working in different ways once they've left a political party to which they were elected, and we've got all kinds of different examples of what they've done after that, whether that's voting…
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
No, I understand that. And we've seen all kinds of—
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
Yes, you are. Yes, I was just checking whether there was any reason why the preferred option here of a closed list—the preferred option of the Welsh Government proposal—would prohibit names being on the electoral ballot, and no decision has been made on that…
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
Yes, okay. Diolch, Jane. Darren.
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
A political party or group.
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
Okay. Fine. Let's go for a 'no increase', and I'll report that back to the Commission. I don't think there were particularly strong views. I shouldn't be saying that, I'm sure, but I think that we're fine with the number that we have for what we are doing…
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
We'll bring a proposal back on that to reflect, I think, where we all are on that, that there needs to be a kind of control mechanism on any executive or group being large enough to dominate those roles. The number of Senedd Commissioners, then. I think, with…
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
I think there's something in current legislation on that, is there?
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
Sorry, yes, Darren.
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
Other than to say that there should be a mechanism, either in legislation or in Standing Orders, that ensures that not all of those elected are from an executive, which could be a large coalition, remember, compared to a non-executive. Okay. I think we'll…
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
Right. And what was my proposal on that?
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
I think we'll bring all of this back. This is just a new twist on it, which is not the wrong thing to do, but it's just—. So, we'll explore these options and we'll bring some proposals back to you. Just the one other issue that remains, then, is that we, via…
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
Iawn. Ocê. Lesley.
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
David.
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
Reit, yn iawn. Os gallwn ni jest cloriannu hyn gyda'n bod ni'n cytuno ein bod ni'n edrych ar swyddogion i ailosod yr enw i 'Speaker', 'Deputy Speaker', 'Llywydd', 'Dirprwy Lywydd', ond ein bod ni hefyd yn edrych ar, o bosib, y defnydd o'r term yn y Gymraeg yn…
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
Okay. Fine.
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
So, what that means is that we would create this bit of the legislation by reference to 'Llywydd' and 'Dirprwy Lywydd', or two 'Dirprwy Lywydds', but we would also need to replicate that with a term in English.
15 Tachwedd 2022 , Business Committee
Diwygio'r Senedd
Yes. But there will be a Welsh version of this legislation.
