23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Of course, yes.
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
That my be true in general terms and that maybe truer in some areas than others, but what I can say is that, in my own constituency, which happens to fall into the same kind of area of deprivation as your own, we have seen local clubs that have applied for…
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
So, I assume the department that's responsible for that would know that.
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
With local authorities? Well, each local authority has to put an active travel plan together and submit to Welsh Government—
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Well, I think, it goes back, actually, to your earlier question, Alun, when you were making the comparisons between us and other countries. I started by saying that we've got the highest level of capital investment ever in sporting facilities and my remit…
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
He's now going to have to explain why he was changing in the changing rooms in his school.
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Hefin, I just said that about gymnastics, so it wasn't just on you; you'll be fine.
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
But there were other things, and I think—
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
I can relate to that.
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
I think that's right. Hefin was saying to me recently—we were having a conversation about this, and he was telling me—he used to hide in the changing rooms when he was at school, because he didn't want to get involved in school—
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Yes, and that was, I think, what I was trying to allude to earlier on when I was talking about some of the activities that we've seen, for instance, in the Summer of Fun activities, the kind of stuff that we saw with the urban games at the weekend. Those are…
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Absolutely.
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Well, no, I don't mean about that. You can set the targets, but then how those targets are delivered sometimes can be driven for the wrong purposes and the wrong way. So, I wouldn't rule it out, Hefin, but I'm not a big fan of targets.
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Well, certainly, the cross-party working, I think, is already happening. I talked earlier on about some of the things that we are already doing through social prescribing, through the work that I do with the Deputy Minister for mental health. I've just talked…
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
But it would also be my ambition as the Minister with responsibility for sport, and participation and activity in sport, that we can access those facilities.
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Yes, and I think that is absolutely right. And when I say they're the heart of the community, they're the heart of the community in the sense that, at some point in time, everybody has to use the school, or nearly everybody has to use the school. And, again…
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Well, sometimes, yes—
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Yes, I think that would be a reasonable thing to ask local authorities to do. Local authorities could be having conversations with schools that have good facilities. As I say, it is a matter for the governing bodies of those schools, but there's no reason why…
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Absolutely, we'll do that, Alun, but just to say, Chair, that those programmes, those pilots are being evaluated in August this year. So, I can certainly write and tell you about them, yes, but we'll have the full evaluation after August.
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Okay. So, I certainly think that school facilities should be available to the community. You will appreciate that I'm not the Minister for education, so I don't actually have an awful lot of control over that, and schools do make their own decisions…
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Again, they're very fair points. I think what we perhaps forget, because we don't see it necessarily as a sport fund but it actually does assist in the way that you're talking about, is the pupil development grant. The pupil development grant is available for…
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Yes, absolutely, because again that is very clearly set out in the remit letter to Sport Wales that those are exactly the considerations they have to take into account when determining how they're going to spend the capital allocation on grass-roots…
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Again, I think that's a fair point and it's something that—
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
You will appreciate, because you've sat in my seat before now, that you work within the budgets that you've got available to you, and within that, you work to maximise the money that you've got. And we have absolutely maxed out on capital investment over the…
23 Mehefin 2022 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
It's more than has ever gone in before—
