22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Well, it is relevant.
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
No, no, no, it's a fair enough question.
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Okay. So, given that this is the climate change committee, and we know that the coal mined from Ffos-y-fran was really good stuff—. I was in the Isle of Man at the Tynwald celebrations—sorry, Delyth, we differ on this—last year, and they were absolutely…
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Why are you limited from a legal perspective?
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Yes.
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
But what are you doing? As a committee, we're not—. I'm not getting—
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Thank you. I am puzzled here. So, you basically have said that going back now would be difficult, and you talk about there being no mechanisms for you to open up those discussions, and relationship issues and things like that. Then you say that, in 2023, they…
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Thanks. Yes, I'll do that and then—[Inaudible.]
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
[Inaudible.]
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Is there anyone who can answer that question?
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
It's more grim than I thought, to be honest. So, why, in 2016, did you decline—not you, but why, in 2016, did they decline the offer from the Coal Authority to work with you to assess the escrow account requirements for restoration?
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Oh dear.
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
How has that been allowed to happen?
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
So, somewhere along the line, the £30 million that we all thought it started off with is now down to £15 million.
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Yes.
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Okay. And who was the other £15 million from?
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Thank you. Under what circumstances will these be released?
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Under what circumstances—
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Thank you. It sounds like you've had a challenge though.
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Yes.
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Adfer safleoedd glo brig - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Thank you. What was the agreement between MTCBC and the site operator—oh, good morning, by the way; straight in there—regarding funding for site restoration? Was it the responsibility of the site operator to put funds aside for restoration in addition to the…
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Newid Hinsawdd gydag Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
Thank you very much.
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Newid Hinsawdd gydag Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
Just on the letter to Joyce about the marine sector, could we have it as committee members as well?
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Newid Hinsawdd gydag Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
The Climate Change Committee calls the Welsh Government's insufficient progress in the building sector 'striking', and recommends it develops a detailed plan for decarbonising all buildings. What work has been undertaken to deliver this?
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar Newid Hinsawdd gydag Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig
Is there scope to increase the funding?