17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
And you said earlier that 10 per cent feels about right, because, in a paired constituency, that would still be a substantial vote. If it reaches that 10 per cent, if it's held over time, when you reach the 10 per cent do you stop, or do you keep it going?…
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
And would you have that on one specific date, similar to a by-election, or would you have it open for a number of weeks, similar to a recall petition in Westminster?
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
That then leads to a threshold, rather than—. Would you allow people to vote by proxy, by post?
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
In what you explained earlier, though, there'd be three options, but you're talking now as if it's a binary choice, or just one. How would you see it working? So, do you see it as a referendum where you've got two questions or a referendum where you've got…
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Sorry, would a simple majority then be—?
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
But there would be two candidates because the next person on the list would be the other candidate, potentially.
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Of course. Let's assume that a trigger has been hit, and one of those elements has happened, and that we are going through the process of a petition or another process. If we were having a recall petition—. We've had some evidence from lots of different…
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
It depends, doesn't it? If we reduce the disqualification element down to six months, and then anything below six months would trigger, does that trigger automatically then trigger a recall or a petition or whatever process that we decide, or does it trigger…
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Bore da, Mick. Just on something that you said in relation to Vikki, and I asked the previous witness as well, if you changed the fact that the trigger could be a custodial sentence, possibly below six months—. Say somebody had a custodial…
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Thank you very much. Diolch. Diolch, Cadeirydd.
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
[Inaudible.]—ask somebody.
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
It was just something that I was thinking about over the weekend and thought maybe we should be considering it.
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Just a quick question around if we've got a robust systems to trigger a petition or a process. Something that occurred to me: if somebody had a prison sentence on a matter of conscience, is that different from anything else, or would it still be subject to…
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Thank you. That's me done, thank you, Chair.
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
And if the individual resigned during that six weeks, or three weeks or whatever, would you just stop the petition?
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
I think Westminster is six weeks. If you make it shorter, for example three, would you give people the option to say, 'I don't agree with this petition' as an alternative? If you're not going to be closing it after 10 per cent, there is an argument that there…
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
On that point, if you're trying to open it up, rather than curtailing the time, would you make postal and proxy available?
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Assuming that we're having a two-stage process and that we're doing a petition because the circumstances have been met for that, in Westminster the trigger is 10 per cent. Is that reasonable? Is that the right figure? Should it be higher? Should it be lower…
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Thank you. We've talked in this committee about different ways of progressing or running a petition. Assuming that we have a petition system, one alternative that has come about in some of the deliberations that we've been having is similar to Westminster…
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
And if somebody was elected as an independent, and therefore wasn't on a list, leave the seat vacant.
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Yes, thank you for that. I have another question around—you mentioned it earlier—the next person on the party list. I'm assuming that you mean the original party list. In Vikki’s example, where somebody changed party three times, it would be the original, to…
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
No, the five stay in place, but to try and—just going back to your point that, in recall petitions, very often the incumbent party loses—allow the public to have a decision in that process.
17 Mehefin 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Ymchwiliad i Atebolrwydd Aelodau Unigol: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Diolch, Gadeirydd. Diolch, Alistair—thank you for coming in this morning. I'd like to just touch on some of the things that Natasha was talking about earlier. You mentioned first-past-the-post, you mentioned the alternative vote; could a by-election happen…
12 Mehefin 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 10.5 i benodi Cadeirydd Bwrdd Swyddfa Archwilio Cymru
Na, dim diolch.
12 Mehefin 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 10.5 i benodi Cadeirydd Bwrdd Swyddfa Archwilio Cymru
Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. Cynigaf y cynnig hwn heddiw ar ran y Pwyllgor Cyllid, yn gofyn i’r Senedd gytuno i benodi Dr Ian Rees yn gadeirydd ar fwrdd Swyddfa Archwilio Cymru, yn unol â Deddf Archwilio Cyhoeddus (Cymru) 2013. Mae gan Dr Ian Rees brofiad…
