15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 2
And just a very brief fact-check to put this in proportion, over the last five years, NRW has purchased 214 hectares of land, and most of that is for compensatory planting. So, it's not a large amount.
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 2
—land for commercial forestry. We are committed—as I thought there was cross-party support for—to plant a national forest for Wales. That involves land acquisition, of course it does, both for productive use and for leisure use, and for biodiversity use, all…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 2
Okay. I'd like to see the evidence that we're outbidding young farmers in those communities. I've not seen that, and, in fact, Tilhill have made clear that in the transactions they've been involved in, the land they've bought on behalf of investors has been…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 2
So, I profoundly disagree, and this is an argument used by people who don't want to change as the latest reason why they shouldn't have to change. It's a false choice to say we have to choose between food security and protecting biodiversity and tackling the…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 2
Well, obviously, local highway maintenance is the responsibility of local highway authorities. So, local government has a responsibility for local roads, and that is expected to be funded from the revenue support grant as anything else is, and we have given a…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 2
I think there's a very clear reason for it: the bus system in London was not privatised in the 1980s; everywhere outside of London it was. And if you look at passenger levels between London and the rest of the UK, there's a very clear relationship that can be…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 2
So, I think we've got a problem here. Rail is an important part of the mix. I think there's a danger we focus too much on rail, because—this is back to the gender point—decision makers like rail, men of a certain age like playing with train sets, and there is…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 2
Well, I think there's a really rich area for challenge here. I think you've hit on a real area that we need to do more work on. So, I think there are two elements to this, to me. The first is the behavioural change. So, the founder of Sustrans, John Grimshaw…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 2
I do my best.
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 2
You're right to point out the challenges. They exist, for sure. I think it's significant and encouraging that TfW themselves have just reorganised their management structure along a multimodal approach. I think that is the right thing to do. I think the join…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 2
We are developing it iteratively and it's being developed quite rapidly. It's a massive infrastructure project, it's circa £1 billion, and we're now seeing the physical infrastructure starting to take place on street level and we'll see a lot more of it in…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 1
There won't be one Bill that covers both, no.
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 1
I think that's too big to do in one Bill.
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 1
Well, we used to have it, but we dismantled it. Again, this was a deliberate act of the Transport Act 1985 to get rid of the old plan system and bring in a privatised one. So, we need to recreate it. At the moment, there is resource inefficiently used: you…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 1
Well, I'm not sure that I accept the premise, really, because we've created a system where we've embedded car dependency. We've put the car at the centre of our planning system and our transport system, so, now, lots of people in those communities feel that…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 1
This isn't a tablet handed down by Moses from the mount about the economics of this. This deliberate political decision was taken in 1985 to privatise the bus industry. That has led us to the situation we have now where we've had a dramatic fall in bus…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 1
So, unless we change the reality and make it easy for people to make the choices that contribute to our climate targets, as well as our health targets, as well as our clean air targets, as well as our town centre regeneration targets, then it's not going to…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 1
I think we're on the nursery slopes of it all, but we're putting in place the conditions to get there. What Julie and I have said throughout is, across the climate change portfolio, we need to make the right thing to do the easiest thing to do. If you make it…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 1
Well, with respect, you're seeing it. You've already seen it. We cancelled the M4. We've set up a roads review that has already seen two road schemes cancelled—the Llanbedr bypass and the A55 junctions. We are expecting the full report imminently and we'll…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 1
Well, it's like the line 'How do you eat an elephant?' isn't it? In pieces. We have plans for all of those things, and let's remember what our carbon budgets tell us. We need to cut emissions as much in the next 10 years as we have done over the course of the…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 1
I'll answer this, if I may. This is the big challenge, and one of the reasons for creating the portfolio—to put transport alongside the other main emissions drivers. Transport accounts for something like 17 per cent of our carbon emissions, and has been the…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 1
I think, in a nutshell, our approach is that we're innovating and experimenting on the social housing sector, and we are at the vanguard in this. I think the Welsh Government deserve some credit for the work we've been doing on this. Once the evidence is in…
15 Mehefin 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Craffu ar waith y Gweinidog a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd – sesiwn 1
Just very briefly, in terms of the Scottish model, we are also looking at the home advice service that the Scottish model has, which was one of the recommendations of the deep dive we did on renewables. So, we're currently looking at that now.
25 Mai 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl Fer: Bioamrywiaeth: Y darlun mawr. Hau'r dyfodol—pwysigrwydd rheoli ymylon glaswellt a glaswelltiroedd
Diolch yn fawr iawn. Roedd hon yn ddadl fer a ffrwythlon gyda llawer o gyfraniadau meddylgar. Diolch am ei chyflwyno, Carolyn, ac am y gwaith y buoch yn ei wneud gyda ni i helpu i lywio dull o weithio gydag awdurdodau lleol gyda'r nod o geisio lledaenu…
18 Mai 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Diolch am y cwestiwn, ac rwy'n ymwybodol o'r pryderon y mae wedi'u codi o'r blaen ar ran trigolion ynglŷn â'r cyfleuster ar ystad Glasdir yn Rhuthun. Yn ôl yr hyn a ddeallaf, cynhaliodd Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru ymchwiliad ochr yn ochr â Chyngor Sir Ddinbych fis…
