14 Mawrth 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Diolch. Fel y gwyddoch chi, mae mwy na 60,000 o bobl ledled Cymru yn dibynnu ar y grant cymorth tai ar hyn o bryd, sy'n darparu cymorth mawr ei angen i'r rhai sy'n wynebu problemau cymdeithasol. Nid yw'n syndod bod penderfyniad eich Llywodraeth chi yn ei…
14 Mawrth 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
6. Pa gamau mae Llywodraeth Cymru'n eu cymryd i helpu elusennau sy'n darparu gwasanaethau cymorth tai a digartrefedd? OQ59248
14 Mawrth 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Diolch yn fawr, Prif Weinidog, am hynna. Mae hawl i ofalwyr di-dâl gael asesiad i ganfod pa gymorth sydd ei angen arnynt, os o gwbl, yn un o brif egwyddorion siarter gofalwyr di-dâl. Mae gwaith ymchwil gan y Gymdeithas Clefyd Niwronau Motor yn dangos bellach…
14 Mawrth 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
6. A wnaiff y Prif Weinidog roi'r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf o ran cyflwyno'r siarter gofalwyr di-dâl? OQ59273
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
Thank you very much.
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
I was, perhaps, surprised by the huge level of support that there was for the need for something. We've had that in the results of the consultation; you know, 100 per cent of people said that there was a need for something. I never thought at the beginning…
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
Thank you, Sarah. No, I don't believe that the Bill needs to be amended here, as the commission's functions are drafted in a way that would allow them to advise and inform the Welsh Ministers on these important matters—all of the things you've just said. When…
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
Yes. I know that people have made that case, and very strongly. I think the resources you’d need to put in to bolster and strengthen and create whatever you needed to create to achieve this in the future generations commissioner’s organisation would be not…
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
Well, public services boards do a great job in delivering their well-being plans, which we know are in line with the future generations Act aspirations. But I don’t really understand why individuals believe that local food plans would duplicate well-being…
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
Thanks, Sarah, and thank you for those kind words. I'm enjoying this process. I've heard some of those concerns, and I can see that a huge amount of work has been put into local projects and community-based projects, and they, I think, have a fundamental part…
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
Yes. And I think that I've made it clear through all of the—. It's a very difficult position, a very difficult position. I'm being asked to find ways that might substitute my own Bill. I just can't see the logic to why I'd bring a Bill forward to find a way…
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
Hefin, the opportunity has been open all the way, from the day this Bill started, for us—. I offered this Bill to the Minister right at the beginning; I would have given it her: 'Have this; I'll work with you to help shape it.' The opportunity has been in…
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
Yes, it is really difficult.
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
Yes. Well, thanks, Hefin. You know, there's a lot of—. The Minister, the first thing she ever said to me was something you just said to me: 'You don't need legislation; you don't need unnecessary legislation.' And I've raised a couple of conversations with…
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
Obviously, Chair, I'm here wanting my Bill in its entirety to go through. That's what I've been asked by the Commission—by the Senedd—to do. And I've been asked at several occasions in committees, 'So, what if it doesn't happen, Peter? What are you going to…
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
As Gareth was saying earlier, it's premature to learn from the Scottish commission, because it hasn't yet been established. So, they're going to put it in place, and they've had Royal Assent, but we're not clear when they're going to commence using their…
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
I absolutely appreciate that some stakeholders have said what they've said about a commissioner providing that figurehead, but there have been a range of views on this, and I'm still convinced that having a chair-and-board model would ensure that wide range…
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
Yes. You forget sometimes that they come through to your hearing aid. So, basically, no, Vikki, I don't think an internal board is the right idea; I think the commission is the right idea, to work with the Government to set strategy, and, if the Minister…
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
Good morning, Vikki. Well, that would be a step forward, I suppose, but I think the Minister is missing the point a little here if she said that. It is having an overarching national food strategy that should join up policy, not an internal board. Any…
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
I'm glad you mentioned that. I'd overlooked that bit.
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
If I had been the Minister and this was a Government Bill coming forward, it wouldn't have been shaped, perhaps, like this. I'll ask colleagues, perhaps, to come in in a second. What we are creating is the framework and we're giving the discretion to…
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
Well, we haven't set targets; we've set the goals. There's an expectation for the Government, with stakeholders and others, to set the nature of the targets, and the WLGA would be a fundamental, I would have thought, stakeholder who would be looking to…
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
I've always made it clear that none has any more weighting than any other, but, I have to acknowledge, if people perceive that is the case, that is an issue, and we've got to, perhaps, then try and find amendments in the Bill. If there are wording amendments…
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
As I said earlier, I've always been—. It's important to listen, and if there are appropriate amendments that we need to make, I'm not against that. I'd be happy to bring forward amendments at Stage 2 if the evidence from this stage supported it, and that goes…
8 Mawrth 2023 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bil Bwyd (Cymru): Sesiwn Dystiolaeth 8
That is so right, Luke. It's very difficult to assess—and I've said this in other committees—in monetary terms the cost of this, because how do you factor in the positive benefits, the social benefits, the societal benefits, that social currency that this…
