22 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Cyflenwad tai cymdeithasol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Okay. I know we've got to finish soon, Cadeirydd, so I'll be quiet now.
22 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Cyflenwad tai cymdeithasol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
When I was a councillor, I can remember having big arguments with the housing department, trying to get a local developer, who said, 'I've got these three units, which have got the footings in, can you buy them?' And, actually, it's the prescriptiveness of it.
22 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Cyflenwad tai cymdeithasol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Do you think there should be more flexibility, allowing people to buy off plan?
22 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Cyflenwad tai cymdeithasol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
This is where the planning system comes into a lot of it, isn't it? It's around mixed tenure housing developments, isn't it? It's not just having all social housing estates over there and then all private here, then perhaps mixed social rents somewhere else…
22 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Cyflenwad tai cymdeithasol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
It's one thing when you talk about public land, but public land sometimes can be in some quite difficult places to build, and there is a prejudice that comes with social housing, isn't there, in some communities. I got experience of that when I was a cabinet…
22 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Cyflenwad tai cymdeithasol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, anybody. Don't all jump at once, it's fine.
22 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Cyflenwad tai cymdeithasol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Yes, if I can. I want to talk about land, if that's okay. A lot of public authorities own land—so, the Welsh Government own a lot of land, local authorities own a lot of land. What do you think should be their guiding principles with regard to publicly owned…
22 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Cyflenwad tai cymdeithasol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
I just wanted to make sure you were including local authorities in that, not just the social housing landlords. Thank you.
22 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Cyflenwad tai cymdeithasol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
On that point, do you have the same view on the HRA paying for building houses? Because, obviously, rent is going to the HRA to build houses in local authority control. Would you have the same view that the HRA shouldn't be being used to build houses in local…
22 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Cyflenwad tai cymdeithasol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
But you do get the rub, then, don't you, between local authorities wanting to deliver housing, whether that's open-market housing, social housing or affordable housing, and if you get—. This is from a councillor perspective, and I know a lot of them who sit…
22 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Cyflenwad tai cymdeithasol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, I was actually going to go on to 106s, John, if that's all right, and the amount of affordable units delivered via 106s. It's something that I was always very keen on when I was cabinet member for planning, but, unfortunately, with the planning system…
22 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Cyflenwad tai cymdeithasol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Yes, just one point. The amount of public land that is owned by local authorities, Welsh Government, Natural Resources Wales—they all own vast swathes of public land. I'm interested in what your views would be, probably from a Welsh Government perspective…
22 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Cyflenwad tai cymdeithasol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
On planning, one thing that's happened in certain parts of Wales and in my own part of the world is land banking by people—people getting planning on vast swathes of land and just leaving it sit there. They may put an access in or put the footings in…
22 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Cyflenwad tai cymdeithasol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
But you have to recognise as well, from my time on the coalface of doing this, that the housing revenue account that buys these properties also is a business account. If you're in local government, it has to have payback over a certain amount of time, and if…
22 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Cyflenwad tai cymdeithasol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
I'm interested in what you think the role of Government is in the acquisition of these private homes. Because I know that, when I was a local government cabinet member for housing in Powys, it was very difficult actually acquiring some properties, because…
22 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Cyflenwad tai cymdeithasol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Yes, I did, on postwar levels, because the demographic of the workforce has changed. A lot more people now work in office environments, compared to construction. In the postwar era, a lot more people worked in the construction and building industry. I give…
22 Mai 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
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Wrth roi swaden i'r pryfyn gythgam hwnnw yn gynharach, fe ddywedais air anseneddol. Hoffwn gywiro'r cofnod ac ymddiheuro.
22 Mai 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig: Twristiaeth
Rwy'n siŵr eich bod yn cyfarfod â llawer o fusnesau, fel y gwnaf innau, ar draws y rhanbarth, sy'n bryderus iawn am yr ardoll ymwelwyr a sicrhau, pan ddaw'r dreth honno i rym, os daw, y bydd yn cael ei hailddefnyddio a'i rhoi'n ôl i'r busnesau twristiaeth…
22 Mai 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig: Twristiaeth
Cefin, a wnewch chi dderbyn ymyriad?
22 Mai 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiadau 90 Eiliad
Diolch, Ddirprwy Lywydd. Yfory, bydd cystadleuaeth gyntaf ci'r flwyddyn y Senedd. Mae'r cymhelliant hwn yn llwyfan pwerus i dynnu sylw at y cysylltiad dwfn rhwng pobl a'u cŵn a'r rôl hanfodol y mae cŵn yn ei chwarae yn y gymdeithas yng Nghymru. Mae…
22 Mai 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
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22 Mai 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
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Diolch am eich ateb i Jane Dodds, Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet. Yn ôl ar 24 Ebrill, mynegais bryderon ynglŷn â'r toriadau i reilffordd Calon Cymru. Fe ddywedoch chi bryd hynny eich bod o ddifrif ynghylch anghenion y bobl sy’n byw yng nghefn gwlad Cymru. Fe aethoch…
21 Mai 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Rheoliadau Defnydd Mandadol o Deledu Cylch Cyfyng mewn Lladd-dai (Cymru) 2024
Fe hoffwn i ddiolch i'r Ysgrifennydd Cabinet am gyflwyno'r rheoliadau hyn. Heddiw, bydd fy nghyd-Aelodau a minnau yng ngrŵp y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig yn cefnogi'r rheoliadau hyn yr ydych chi wedi'u cyflwyno, gan ein bod yn credu'n gryf bod angen i'r defnydd…
16 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Grŵp 17: Anghymhwyso rhag bod yn Aelod o Senedd Cymru neu lywodraeth leol (Gwelliannau 112, 113, 10, 114, 125, 126, 128, 129)
I'd like to thank you, Adam, for comprehensively setting out your position over the last half an hour. You can come up for a breath now. I actually have sympathy over amendment 125 about Members of the Senedd who deliberately lie. I did have issues around…
16 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Grŵp 16: Diddymu Bwrdd Taliadau Annibynnol y Senedd (Gwelliant 6)
I just want to thank Adam for bringing this amendment forward today, and I do have great sympathy with this amendment, actually. I think that Wales is a very small country. Do we need all these different types of boards and set-ups to administer how expenses…
