1 Gorffennaf 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 9
That's fine. And talking a little bit about the system that we will have and the closed lists, and we are of the same mind that we'd prefer an STV system, but we are where we are with that, should the by-election bit be—? Basically, the petition would be—. As…
1 Gorffennaf 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 9
And was it 'yes' and 'no' for that, or was it just the one vote to say, 'Yes, recall'?
1 Gorffennaf 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 9
So, you wouldn't have known that you'd got to 19 per cent earlier.
1 Gorffennaf 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 9
Okay. And, just looking at—. You said, again, that 10 per cent was the threshold to call a by-election in Brecon and Radnorshire, but you got to 19 per cent, should they have stopped after 10?
1 Gorffennaf 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 9
And, from your experience in Brecon and Radnorshire, when the process was happening there, you talked earlier about six weeks being a very long time, finding that balance—you seemed to indicate that it should be a shorter period of time. Given your last…
1 Gorffennaf 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 9
And, assuming that we've agreed that these are the triggers, that the standards committee, or whoever, has decided, looking at the evidence, that those triggers have been met, there's been a report to the Senedd, the Senedd has voted to agree that report, and…
1 Gorffennaf 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 9
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Just stepping back slightly to the question before last around custodial sentences, what if somebody was protesting and it was on a matter of conscience, not paying a fine or something? We've seen lots of examples of that. Would you still…
1 Gorffennaf 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
A final question from me, Chair, if that's okay. The way that it's drafted currently allows for the Member, once they're aware that it is a false statement or the fact has been proved to be wrong, to be able to put the record straight within 14 days. So, that…
1 Gorffennaf 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
And in looking through some of that documentation and in reading the papers before today, do any of those international examples jump out at you as something that we could adopt parts of, or something that you read in there that was particularly useful that…
1 Gorffennaf 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Good morning, and thank you very much for your time this morning. In your deliberations there and in coming to some of your conclusions, obviously, you've read the drafting. Have you drawn on any international comparators or anywhere where this has been used…
26 Mehefin 2024 , Finance Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog Rhif 17.42(ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o weddill y cyfarfod
O dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42(ix), fe wnaf i benderfynu rŵan gwahardd y cyhoedd o weddill y cyfarfod yma. Ydy pawb yn fodlon? Diolch yn fawr.
26 Mehefin 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
Diolch yn fawr iawn i ti, Ed. Mae wastad yn bleser dy gael di yma. Diolch yn fawr am ddod heddiw. Mi fydd yna drawsgrifiad o'r sesiwn er mwyn i ti tsiecio bod y wybodaeth yn gywir.
26 Mehefin 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
Well, thank you very much.
26 Mehefin 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
But it allows for those regional voices to come through, because you need that regional voice of that regional party, I suppose, to be able to hold that coalition together.
26 Mehefin 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
But in places like Italy, you've got multiparty, rather than, in Westminster, it is red and blue and a few of the others, so it tends to be much more of an adversarial two-party state, rather than a—. When we were talking about America, then it certainly is a…
26 Mehefin 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
Potentially, yes, so there are elements, and as this inquiry has gone on, we've teased out a lot of information. And I think that probably brings us to time, unless you've got something to add in on this.
26 Mehefin 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
There is that element, and obviously with fewer MPs being returned next week from Wales, but at least—. Yes. So, that's a—
26 Mehefin 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
Yes. This afternoon. We'll have that discussion later.
26 Mehefin 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
Yes.
26 Mehefin 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
Is there a body within the UK currently that could take on that sort of independent arbitration? I'm just thinking either the Office for Budget Responsibility or the National Audit Office, or somebody who could look at the facts and make a decision and that…
26 Mehefin 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
Thank you very much. We've touched on it a few times during the session this morning: mediation and arbitration when it comes to resolving disputes. You've talked about different international examples of how this is done. You're very well aware of the Welsh…
26 Mehefin 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
With this committee, in particular, we get reports from FISC; we get a letter, very often, from the Cabinet Secretary once she's been to those meetings, and she gives us a short report. Is there more work that this committee could do in the scrutiny element…
26 Mehefin 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
When the inter-parliamentary forum—. Recently, we went to and held a session in Westminster with some committees there as well, and we had I think it was six or even seven different political parties around the table, sharing information and sharing and…
26 Mehefin 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
You've alluded to one there and we've set up between ourselves, the Finance Committee here, and in Scotland and Northern Ireland now—as that executive finds its feet again—the Interparliamentary Finance Committee Forum. Do you think that that has any merit in…
26 Mehefin 2024 , Finance Committee
Cysylltiadau Rhynglywodraethol Cyllidol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
There's no grandstanding, I suppose.
