 Felly, gwsbryd i'w gwaith yng Nghymru, ac iddo i'w meddwl i'r gweithio gweithio'r sefyll yn rhaid i'w prifysgirio'r sydd. Mae'r meddwl i'w meddwl i gwaith yng nghymru i chi ar gyfer gweithio'r gweithio'r cyfnodol, ac i'w rhai'r cymorthau a'r cyfnodol, ac i'w'r cyffredinogi ar gyfer oedd y cyfrifiadau cyflyb. Mae'r cyfrifiadau cyfrifiadau gyffredinogi ar gyferio'r cyfrifiadau gyflyb, mae'r unrhyw o'r rai'r cyfnod i'r holl ddodd ac mae'n rhai'r gweithwyr. Aethon, ei gwch yn gwneud i'r iawn i'r ddau yma yma i'r Baf, y Ffyrdd Ffyrdd, yma ychydig yma i'r ddau yma i'r cyfnod i'r cyfnod. Aethon, mae'n rhai'r gweithwyr i'r gweithwyr i'r Geremi a Ffwelsgwater, i'r Geremi a Ffyrdd Gwerthysgwrs, aethon yn fwy fwy o bwysig fydd yn ymgwylol. the minister for housing and regeneration announce that we'll be taking a staged implementation to the requirement to install fire suppression systems sprinkler systems. So, in October, 2013, the relevant regulations were passed and last month in January the Minister announced funding for a pilot sprinkler installation program which I'll talk about gyda'r gwybod. Efallai y cyfnodd cyfnodd yn amlwg yn gwybod a chyfnodd yn fuam yn 1213, mae gennych 14 dient a 438 dient o chyfnodd yn ffaisol. Mae'r gweithio gyda'r ffaithZYF yn gwybod a gyfnodd yn hawddol yn gwybod, a'r gwybod a chyfnodd yn ffaith. Mae'r gwybod a chyfnodd yn ffaith yn gwybod a chyfnodd yn gwybod a chyfnodd yn fyddiol, a ddwy ac yn gwneud cyfnodd yn gwybod a chyfnodd three sets of regulations were made last year, first of which, the building regulations and amendment number three, amended the building regulations and you will hear some of the details on changes to the building regulations. But we had a measure in place. The measure was passed before we had the building regulations competence and there was a misalignment between the categories, the classes of residents in the measure and the building regulations. For new and converted care homes, children's residential homes, hospices, halls of residence and some types of hostels, there will be a requirement to install fire suppression systems, new and converted. So that's not renovated existing buildings, but new and converted. And then from 1st of January 2016, for new and converted houses and flats, and that includes sheltered housing, the requirement to install fire suppression systems will be introduced. Transitional arrangements, I mentioned this morning, part L 2010 transitional arrangements, and we are repeating those for the changes to part B of the building regulations. Same rules apply. Full plans applications, building notices, initial notices before the date, mean that you don't comply, provided work starts within 12 months of coming into force. From the cost benefit analysis that was undertaken by BRE and eventually became our regulatory impact assessment, which is published on the Welsh Government website, this table shows the analysis of death and injury in the various categories of housing and various residential categories. And you can see that what we are doing in April is targeting the higher risk categories of residence. Both for the deaths and injuries, you can see that houses and flats are at the lower end of the risk. And as I say, that will be stage so that that comes in into 2016. The requirement is therefore that each residence to which the regulations apply must have an automatic fire suppression system such as a sprinkler system. That's not the same thing. The building regulations talks about fire suppression systems, and Pierre will talk about the rationality behind that. It's required that the system operates effectively and complies with whatever guidance Welsh Ministers prescribe under the building regulations, and that's set out in revisions to approve document B. So just to be clear, it applies where new building work creates a new residence, or a change of use occurs to convert an existing building into new residence or residences. So that could be a large house converted into flats, or it could be a group of flats converted back into a large house. But it doesn't apply to existing residences that are simply being renovated. The regulations doesn't apply to those categories there, hospitals, prisons, schools, et cetera. Those of you that work in the schools field will know that quite separately there is Welsh Government policy to encourage sprinklers for not life safety, but for property protection reasons in schools. It's not part of the regulations but that operates through funding arrangements, and that in fact in hospitals, hotels, sprinklers quite often are part of the design solution. But these regulations do not apply to those categories you see listed there. Listed buildings, the requirement does apply to listed buildings to provide a fire suppression system, but in the same way that listed buildings are generally treated within the approved documents, it is subject to not unacceptably altering the character or the appearance of the building, and the building control bodies will consider applications, and they consider it with other interested organisations, heritage organisations, and CADO in coming to a view on that. But listed buildings are not exempt from the requirement. Maintenance. You'll hear about maintenance today about what's expected of maintenance. You may have questions about how maintenance is going to be insured. There's no legal requirement on householders to maintain the sprinkler systems. It is not practical to do that. There's no legal requirement on a householder to service their gas boiler. So what we're going to do is looking at encouraging householders to maintain the sprinkler systems so that they're in working order. We intend to publish a householders guide to fire sprinklers. BAFSA already produce a wealth of technical guidance and advice on the subject, but we're looking to produce something for householders, because whereas the sprinkler industry is already existing, this is not new technology. It is predominantly aimed at the larger types of building and the non-domestic sector. So, in a sense, moving into the domestic sector is a new world for not only the industry, but also the users of those sort of properties, and that will require some extra guidance. I mentioned this morning policy development. A staged approach has been proposed. This comes out of the facts, and I repeat a little of what I said this morning, you don't look at policies in isolation. A whole host of demands are placed on house builders. Section 106 agreements affordable housing. Other policies this morning we were talking about Partel come along, all of which add to burdens that can represent serious risks to viability, particularly in low value areas. This sort of thinking, together with the crash of 2008 and the need to support the house building industry led to the staged approach. I mentioned Welsh Government support for the house building industry in other areas, and you can find details of that on the housing pages of our website, the help to buy scheme and those sort of initiatives. You can also find there the housing supply task force report, which has just been published, which is looking at how we can increase the numbers of housing. The approved documents, and that's an example of one of them, are going to be published in stages, and this is because we've got a staged approach to the introduction. This month we'll be publishing a new volume 2, but because volume 2 also deals with flats, we are retaining the existing requirements for flats, because that doesn't kick in until 2016. Volume 1 dwellings will remain the same. 2015 we'll publish a full new volume 2, which will then cover everything ready for the 2016 implementation date, and we will then include the new volume 1, which deals with dwellings. As I say, that's the format that the Welsh Government approved documents are taking to differentiate us from England, from Scotland, wherever, and we followed a very similar approach in terms of format to the partel approach, taking an opportunity to try and improve the readability of the documents. So a new area we're moving into, this mass market, anywhere between 6,000 and 9,000 new homes a year, are going to require the installation of a sprinkler, and there's some learning to be done from the industry point of view, there's some learning to be done from the house building point of view, and a whole other host of parties that are involved in the housing development process. The Minister last month announced that Welsh Government will be funding a pilot programme for designing and installing sprinklers in the new social housing programme, that's what we call the social housing grant programme, and we're going to be looking for two to 300 houses, combining a mix of development size, large schemes, small schemes, a mix of type apartments, houses, and house types, and a mix of geography, and we would also hope to cover the three areas of Wales, the three water company areas of Wales, to build on their policies and the experience that came from that. And that will be combined with a detailed monitoring programme, and what we're looking to get is the experience of design and installation costs, the cost savings, we include costs within our regulatory impact assessment as our best estimate of the current costs of installation, water supply issues which have been discussed in the various consultation discussions that we had, how the statutory guidance is then applied by building control, what the experience of the tenants is, and we're looking to publish a report in the autumn of 2015, and we'll shortly be approaching RSL's housing associations for applications towards that programme, but it's a sizeable programme, we hope, that will deliver some important understanding, will dispel some myths, and gives confidence, because in the discussions I have with industry out there and with clients, there's a confidence that needs to be built up. This isn't a new technology and you're going to hear from Ian Goff on what we know and understand about sprinkler systems, but this pilot programme, we hope, will help inform that and give people confidence. Skills is an issue that is clearly something we need to consider. The sprinkler industry exists, it's there, they're quite capable of installing in new houses, but perhaps long term that's not where we think we're going to go. Discussions are taking place between ministers about what provision needs to be made, and so in the pilot programme we'll be involving colleges, because these are the organisations that will put on the training courses, we'll look at whether it is a new skill or whether it fits as an extension of perhaps a plumber or a heating engineer skills, those sort of issues. So that dialogue is going on and we're talking to, as I say, the training colleges, sector skills council and the industry about how we move that forward.