Cyflwynwyd yr ymateb hwn i ymgynghoriad y Pwyllgor Biliau Diwygio ar Fil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau).

This response was submitted to the Reform Bill Committee consultation on the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill.

SCME85 Ymateb gan: | Response from: Allan Keating
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I object strongly to the proposal to increase the Senedd members to 96.

It is a wholly unnecessary use of limited funds and diverts funds from other key areas like Health and Education both of which are well behind English standards.

This constitutional change should be the subject of a referendum or even just a petition to obtain voter support levels.

If it is felt that more members are needed due to extended powers then the answer is to give back some of those powers so that you can concentrate on the ones currently managed so poorly.

Of course more resources could be found by scrapping the vastly costly bi-lingual policy which serves not to boost this beautiful language but to ridicule it.

This is an English speaking nation with pockets of first language Welsh speakers which survived regardless of any pointless Government tinkering.

Allan Keating