English: Llywydd, thanks to John Griffiths. I won't repeat many of the things that I've said already in relation to speedy action and the need for new and imaginative solutions. I'll try and respond to the new points that John has made. He's right to point to the fact that, as well as concern about the current expected costs of any relief road, we have to think about how those costs might escalate in the future. The average cost overrun across the United Kingdom of schemes of this sort is 20 per cent, and there are many examples that are far worse, of course, than that. You're bound to take that sort of evidence into account, in a background way, when assessing affordability. I'll say again that when the scheme was first proposed, as the then First Minister made clear on a number of occasions here in the Chamber, it was on the basis that a new stream of funding - borrowing powers that had never been previously available to this Assembly - would be sufficient to meet the costs involved, and that there would be no need, therefore, to divert funds from other priorities of this Welsh Labour Government in those important fields of health, housing and education, and so on. But I have made it clear to people who will be involved in the commission that the first call on the money that would have been available for a relief road will be theirs, and that they will be able to press ahead with ideas such as those put forward by community councils in the Monmouthshire area - that they will be able to draw on that money to give them substance. I agree with what the Member said about the involvement of Newport City Council, and I've already spoken to the leader of Newport council today. I spoke to a range of other individuals with a direct interest in it. My colleague Ken Skates has spoken with the CBI, the FSB and other business interests, and I will be meeting them next week. So, we will make sure that all those who have an interest in the decision have a direct line to the Welsh Government. The Member has asked me about the well-being of future generations legislation. I want to make it clear, Llywydd, that I read very carefully the evidence that was given by the commissioner, and I read very carefully the way in which the QC, on behalf of the Welsh Government, responded to her interpretation of the Act. My own view is that it was not a reading of the Act that I heard expressed on the floor of this Assembly that proposals for development have to satisfy all seven goals and all well-being objectives, and that they have to do so equally across all the goals and the objectives. It does seem to me inevitable that, in any plan for development, there will be some balancing between the different goals and the objectives that the Act introduces. I did not dissent from the view of the inspector, therefore, that the requirements of the Act had been fairly represented by the Welsh Government in the way that it presented its evidence on the Act to the inspector.
Welsh: Llywydd, diolch i John Griffiths. Ni fyddaf yn ailadrodd llawer o'r pethau a ddywedais eisoes mewn cysylltiad â gweithredu'n gyflym a'r angen am atebion newydd llawn dychymyg. Ceisiaf ymateb i'r pwyntiau newydd y mae John wedi'u gwneud. Mae'n iawn i dynnu sylw at y ffaith, yn ogystal â phryder am gostau disgwyliedig cyfredol unrhyw ffordd liniaru, fod yn rhaid inni feddwl sut y gallai'r costau hynny gynyddu yn y dyfodol. Ar gyfartaledd, mae cost cynlluniau o'r math hwn ar draws y Deyrnas Unedig wedi cynyddu 20 y cant, ac mae llawer o enghreifftiau sy'n llawer gwaeth na hynny, wrth gwrs. Rydych yn siŵr o gymryd y math hwnnw o dystiolaeth i ystyriaeth yn y cefndir wrth asesu fforddiadwyedd. Dywedaf eto, pan gynigiwyd y cynllun gyntaf, fel yr eglurwyd gan y Prif Weinidog ar y pryd ar sawl achlysur yma yn y Siambr, mai ar y sail y byddai ffrwd newydd o gyllid - pwerau benthyca nad oeddent erioed wedi bod ar gael o'r blaen i'r Cynulliad hwn - yn ddigonol i dalu'r costau dan sylw, ac na fyddai angen, felly, dargyfeirio arian i ffwrdd oddi wrth flaenoriaethau eraill y Llywodraeth Lafur Gymreig hon yn y meysydd pwysig hynny, sef iechyd, tai ac addysg, ac yn y blaen. Ond rwyf wedi egluro wrth y bobl a fydd yn gysylltiedig â'r comisiwn, y bydd eu gwaith nhw'n cael manteisio ar yr arian a fuasai ar gael ar gyfer ffordd liniaru, ac y byddant yn gallu bwrw ymlaen â syniadau fel y rhai a gyflwynwyd gan gynghorau cymuned yn ardal Sir Fynwy. Byddant yn gallu defnyddio'r arian hwnnw i roi sylwedd i'w gwaith. Cytunaf â'r hyn a ddywedodd yr Aelod am gyfraniad Cyngor Dinas Casnewydd, ac rwyf wedi siarad eisoes gydag arweinydd Cyngor Casnewydd heddiw. Siaredais ag amryw o unigolion eraill sydd â diddordeb uniongyrchol ynddo. Mae fy nghyd-aelod Ken Skates wedi siarad â Chydffederasiwn Diwydiant Prydain, y Ffederasiwn Busnesau Bach a buddiannau busnes eraill, a byddaf yn cwrdd â nhw yr wythnos nesaf. Felly, byddwn yn gwneud yn siŵr bod gan bawb sydd â diddordeb yn y penderfyniad gyswllt uniongyrchol â Llywodraeth Cymru. Mae'r Aelod wedi fy holi am ddeddfwriaeth llesiant cenedlaethau'r dyfodol. Rwy'n dymuno egluro, Llywydd, fy mod wedi darllen yn ofalus iawn y dystiolaeth a roddwyd gan y Comisiynydd, a darllenais yn ofalus iawn y modd yr ymatebodd Cwnsler y Frenhines, ar ran Llywodraeth Cymru, i'w dehongliad hi o'r Ddeddf. Yn fy marn i, nid darlleniad o'r Ddeddf oedd yr hyn a glywais i'n cael ei fynegi ar lawr y Cynulliad hwn, sef bod yn rhaid i gynigion ar gyfer datblygu fodloni pob un o'r saith nod a'r holl amcanion llesiant, a bod yn rhaid iddynt wneud hynny'n gyfartal ar draws yr holl nodau a'r amcanion. Mae'n ymddangos i mi ei bod yn anochel, mewn unrhyw gynllun datblygu, y bydd rhywfaint o gydbwysedd rhwng y gwahanol nodau a'r amcanion y mae'r Ddeddf yn eu cyflwyno. Nid oeddwn wedi anghydweld â barn yr arolygydd, felly, fod gofynion y Ddeddf wedi cael eu cynrychioli'n deg gan Lywodraeth Cymru yn y modd y cyflwynodd ei thystiolaeth ar y Ddeddf i'r arolygydd.