Ar fater Confensiwn Sewel, codais y pwynt bod achosion posibl o dorri’r Confensiwn sawl gwaith yn ystod y flwyddyn hon yn unig gan Lywodraeth y DU yn dangos ei hagwedd mor sylfaenol amharchus a dinistriol tuag at y Confensiwn, datganoli a’r Undeb. Yn syml, nid oes unrhyw gyfiawnhad dros hyn ac nid yw’n gydnaws â’r gofyniad na ddylai Llywodraeth y DU ‘fel arfer’ ddeddfu heb gydsyniad. Pan nad yw’r Senedd yn rhoi ei chydsyniad i Fil gan Lywodraeth y DU, mae angen i Lywodraeth y DU ailddechrau dangos parch tuag at ddatganoli a gwrthdroi sefyllfa lle’r duedd erbyn hyn yw mynd ati i dorri Confensiwn Sewel.
On the Sewel Convention, I raised that the UK Government potentially breaching the Sewel Convention multiple times in the current year alone illustrates the fundamentally disrespectful and destructive approach of the UKG to the Sewel Convention, to devolution, and to the Union. There is simply no justification for this and absolutely no way this could be described as ‘not normally’ legislating without consent. Where the Senedd does not consent to a UK Government Bill, the UK Government needs to rediscover its respect for devolution and reverse the position whereby breaches of the Sewel Convention have become the default.