11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda llywodraeth leol
Lis, go ahead.
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda llywodraeth leol
Andrew.
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda llywodraeth leol
Pwy sy'n mynd i ateb? Andrew. Na. Keith.
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda llywodraeth leol
Diolch, Keith. Heledd, over to you.
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda llywodraeth leol
Thanks, Lis. We'll come to Keith and then to Heledd. Keith, you're not going to take those lovely free TrawsCymru buses away from me, are you, when I go and walk in the hills and so on?
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda llywodraeth leol
Okay, let's go to Lis then. Lis, be very careful because I only got my free bus pass three months ago. [Laughter.]
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda llywodraeth leol
I’m going to bring Liz in, but, Andrew, do you think that those sorts of frank conversations are currently going on in all of those aspects? Sometimes, you’re limited to what you can say about the detail of discussions going on. But the Minister has…
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda llywodraeth leol
Thanks, Carolyn. Joyce, we'll go to you and then we'll go to Heledd. Joyce.
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda llywodraeth leol
Yes, okay. Good.
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda llywodraeth leol
Carolyn, is there anything else on the financial side that you wanted particularly—we can return to it if we've got time towards the end?
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda llywodraeth leol
Andrew, you've had your hand up there as well. Go ahead.
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda llywodraeth leol
Diolch, Keith. David, over to you.
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda llywodraeth leol
Who would like to come in on that? Keith, please, go ahead.
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda llywodraeth leol
Okay. Get stuck in.
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda llywodraeth leol
Thanks, Lis. Okay, we're going to delve into some detail, so if our witnesses here would like to add something, there'll be plenty of time, don't worry. That issue of rurality is interesting, because rurality can apply in mid and west Wales and parts of…
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda llywodraeth leol
Okay. Thank you, Andrew, for that overview. Lis, I'll come to you. We're going to delve into some real detail on the funding and future strategies and so on, but, Lis, do you want to add something at this moment in that overview of where we are?
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda llywodraeth leol
Croeso nôl, bawb—welcome back this afternoon to the last substantive session of the afternoon, and it's our second session taking evidence on the sustainability of Welsh bus services, and this session is focusing on local government. So, we're very delighted…
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda gweithredwyr bysiau
Bye bye.
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda gweithredwyr bysiau
Thank you, Janet.
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda gweithredwyr bysiau
Thank you very much. Thank you, Joyce. Thank you for your evidence today. It's been very, very helpful. If there's anything else you want to share with us—over the next few days, you go away and you think, 'I really wish I would have said that'—then drop us a…
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda gweithredwyr bysiau
Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. Joyce, you've been very, very patient, and I know we've touched on aspects of school transport, but can we hand to you for the final word there, and the final questioning?
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda gweithredwyr bysiau
I just wonder if we can through that, in the last minute that we have, to Scott there, for anything that he might want to add on it, if you have a UK-wide perspective.
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda gweithredwyr bysiau
Okay. [Inaudible.]
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda gweithredwyr bysiau
Okay, thanks. Aaron, park your thoughts for the moment, we'll come back to you, because time is against us here. So, Janet, let's come to you, please.
11 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cynaliadwyedd Gwasanaethau Bysiau Cymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda gweithredwyr bysiau
Thank you, Heledd. I'm going to come to Janet in a moment. We've delved into funding quite a lot, understandably, in this session. It's not all to do with funding; it's also to do with longer term plans as well, but funding is a real and urgent and pressing…
