26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 8: Cwynion am fynediad at wasanaethau (Gwelliant 23)
Yes, please.
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 8: Cwynion am fynediad at wasanaethau (Gwelliant 23)
I move.
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 8: Cwynion am fynediad at wasanaethau (Gwelliant 23)
I'd like to move.
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 8: Cwynion am fynediad at wasanaethau (Gwelliant 23)
I do.
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 8: Cwynion am fynediad at wasanaethau (Gwelliant 23)
Amendment 23 is tabled in response to this committee's recommendation 10. As committee members will be aware, in response to the committee's Stage 1 report, I rejected recommendation 10, setting out my reasons for that, and I don't believe the situation has…
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 7: Trefniadau adrodd a chyrff cyhoeddus rhestredig (Gwelliannau 9, 12, 13, 24)
Yes, please.
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 7: Trefniadau adrodd a chyrff cyhoeddus rhestredig (Gwelliannau 9, 12, 13, 24)
Yes, please.
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 7: Trefniadau adrodd a chyrff cyhoeddus rhestredig (Gwelliannau 9, 12, 13, 24)
I'd be grateful if you could move that, yes, please.
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 7: Trefniadau adrodd a chyrff cyhoeddus rhestredig (Gwelliannau 9, 12, 13, 24)
Again, I completely endorse the intention and the goal. We share the goal. I remind Members, as I said earlier, that amendment 14 widens, or will require that representatives of BSL signers would also need to be consulted before Welsh Ministers can make…
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 7: Trefniadau adrodd a chyrff cyhoeddus rhestredig (Gwelliannau 9, 12, 13, 24)
I thank Sioned Williams for her comments. As I say, I completely endorse and support the principle of this. As you indicate, proposed amendment 9 will, hopefully, go a long way towards addressing this. Future Welsh Governments will have to show that they've…
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 7: Trefniadau adrodd a chyrff cyhoeddus rhestredig (Gwelliannau 9, 12, 13, 24)
Thank you, Chair. Recommendation 6 in this committee's Stage 1 report called for the early progress reports required by the Bill to include consideration of whether other authorities should be added to the listed public bodies included in section 8 of the…
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 6: Penodi’r cynghorydd IAP (Gwelliannau 20, 21, 22)
Diolch, Chair, and, again, thank you to Sioned Williams for tabling amendments 20, 21 and 22, and, as you've heard, amendment 20 to place a requirement on the face of the Bill that the BSL adviser must be a deaf person. The legal position, which has been…
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 5: Cydgynhyrchu (Gwelliannau 19, 18)
I do.
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 5: Cydgynhyrchu (Gwelliannau 19, 18)
Thank you, Chair, and thanks very much, Sioned, for tabling these amendments on co-production. As you say, co-production is more than consultation. In fact, it's different to consultation. Committee members may be aware that I've long been an advocate of…
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 4: Canllawiau IAP (Gwelliant 6)
Nothing further to my previous comments, so please move.
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 4: Canllawiau IAP (Gwelliant 6)
Only to endorse your comments. As I say, it was always the intention that the two should run concurrently, but, hypothetically, there is the risk that a Welsh Government could, for whatever reason, create a gap in timing between the two, which could lead to…
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 4: Canllawiau IAP (Gwelliant 6)
Thank you. Again, I thank this committee for having raised this yourselves. This was something that I know you were keen to see, because you set it out in recommendation 3 of your Stage 1 report. As a consequence, amendment 6 places a requirement on the face…
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 3: Ymgynghori â chymuned arwyddo IAP (Gwelliannau 4, 17, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15)
Yes, I propose.
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 3: Ymgynghori â chymuned arwyddo IAP (Gwelliannau 4, 17, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15)
Thank you very much. Diolch yn fawr. I completely agree that we must, collectively, seek—and I quote you—to reflect the lived experience of the people the Bill is intended or supposed to support. That's why, essentially, this suite of amendments has been…
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 3: Ymgynghori â chymuned arwyddo IAP (Gwelliannau 4, 17, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15)
It'll do it in the summing up.
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 3: Ymgynghori â chymuned arwyddo IAP (Gwelliannau 4, 17, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15)
Diolch. Thank you. The amendments in this group, as you indicated, all relate to increasing consultation with the deaf community and deaf communities on key provisions in the Bill. This is something I know that this committee was keen to see and which came…
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 2: Strategaeth IAP genedlaethol (Gwelliannau 3, 16)
Yes, I move the amendment.
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 2: Strategaeth IAP genedlaethol (Gwelliannau 3, 16)
Thank you very much, Sioned. I won't say any more about the amendment I'm proposing. I completely support the intent of both parts of your amendment. As I stated, I'd very much welcome the amendment at Stage 3 in relation to the first part of that amendment…
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 2: Strategaeth IAP genedlaethol (Gwelliannau 3, 16)
Well, in your committee's Stage 1 report, one of the clear conclusions was that the single biggest threat to effective implementation of this Bill is the shortage of BSL translators and interpreters, a conclusion that I wholeheartedly agree with. While I…
26 Ionawr 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Grŵp 1: Diffiniad o Iaith Arwyddion Prydain (Gwelliannau 1, 2)
Amendment 1 has been tabled in response to this committee's recommendation 2, which called on me to review the description of British Sign Language, BSL, using the explanatory memorandum, and to consider including a definition of BSL on the face of the Bill…
