11 Hydref 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Diolch, Lywydd. Pa asesiad y mae'r Gweinidog wedi'i wneud o gefnogaeth y cyhoedd i gynlluniau Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer diwygio'r Senedd?
11 Hydref 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Gweinidog Cyfiawnder Cymdeithasol a'r Prif Chwip
Rwy'n croesawu'r gwaith y mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi’i wneud ar dlodi mislif. Un o’r heriau eraill y mae llawer o bobl yng Nghymru yn eu hwynebu, yn anffodus, yw anymataliaeth. Mae oddeutu 150,000 o bobl yng Nghymru yn dioddef o anymataliaeth. Mae'n fater…
10 Hydref 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad a Chyhoeddiad Busnes
Trefnydd, a gaf i alw am ddiweddariad gan y Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol ar ddeintyddiaeth y GIG yng Nghymru? Rwy'n gwybod ein bod ni wedi bod â rheswm dros ymweld â hyn sawl gwaith yn y gorffennol, fodd bynnag, mae pryderon yn fy etholaeth i…
10 Hydref 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Prif Weinidog, mae fêpio nicotin yn sylweddol llai niweidiol i iechyd pobl na smygu ac mae'n un o'r dulliau mwyaf effeithiol ar gyfer helpu pobl i roi'r gorau i'r arfer o smygu. Rydym ni'n gwybod bod mwy na thri chwarter y bobl sy'n defnyddio e-sigaréts fel…
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
And you were happy with it.
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
I appreciate that, but this is a figure in a book that you own—in this. So, by virtue of the fact that you've used it, it's your figure as well. So, I appreciate we'll be testing the Senedd Commission on these things too, but you've included that in your…
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
So, in short, you did ask probing questions to try and test the robustness, but you seem to have just accepted the one figure, which is a standout figure, which is the capital costs potentially associated with the additional 36 Members, all of the additional…
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Yes. Obviously, looking at the costs in the explanatory memorandum, many of them have been provided to the Welsh Government from other organisations, including the Senedd Commission. To what extent has the Welsh Government tested those? It is an issue that…
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Yes, a very short question. Just in relation to, obviously, by-election costs being a lot less on the new model than they are on the regional model, I do think that there's a reasonable case to be made for by-elections. The First Minister in FMQs this week…
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
I just want to make—. So, if a party gets 11 per cent of the vote nationally, they shouldn't be entitled to a single seat in the Senedd?
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
So, if a party gets 12 per cent—
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
I've heard the Minister's answer. I don't accept that it's a good one, but I've heard it. Can I ask one more question, just on this very specific issue about the electoral system? Obviously, the one thing that we do know about the Welsh Government is that…
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Well, of course it does. There's direct accountability to the people, isn't there, if people are able to select an individual candidate?
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Forgive me, but, as I understand it, with mayoral elections, people vote for an individual person. They don't vote for a group of people, do they, to be mayor of their city?
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
And that gives you carte blanche to do anything, does it? Well, why don't you just put a line saying, 'We will legislate', in every future manifesto, and then you can do whatever you want?
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
But there was no proposal in your manifesto to introduce the closed list system, whereby people couldn't vote for an individual candidate of their choice, was there?
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Yes. Obviously, as has already been said by Jane Dodds, the departure from being able to vote for an individual candidate is a huge shift, which people in Wales will not have experienced before in Senedd elections. And given that it's such a significant…
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
So, there was no consultation as such. It was just a political decision made and put into the—
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
And just one final question on this: so, what consultation did you undertake with anybody regarding this particular rule?
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
So, one of the things about the current disqualification list from being a Member of the Senedd is that, very often, the disqualification doesn't kick in until somebody is elected, yes? So, for example, if somebody is a member of a body that is sponsored by…
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
I understand.
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
But, of course, as you've already said, there are ways that that has been interpreted for legislative purposes in other areas. What about—
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
But we do have such laws already, don't we—for housing purposes, for example. So, someone needs to demonstrate a strong local connection to an area in order to be eligible for support from a local authority in terms of housing. I'm not saying I disagree with…
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
But you accept that those laws might be applicable to somebody who lives in a house over the border in England? Do you not think that proximity to a constituency perhaps is a better way to address whether someone should stand for election in that…
5 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Obviously, there is a residency requirement for candidates that is in the Bill that could lead to someone, for example, on the south Wales coast standing for election in the north Wales coast, where somebody literally a house over the border in a neighbouring…
