English: Llywydd, Andrew R.T. Davies very fairly put the point to me yesterday about making a statement to the Senedd as soon as I was able to do so. I said in my answer to him then that I could not guarantee that all the necessary decisions would have been made in time to make such a statement while the Senedd was still in session yesterday. The decisions we are making all the time in the Welsh Government are fundamentally important decisions that have an impact on the lives of so many of our fellow citizens. Those decisions were still being made well into the evening yesterday. I don't make an apology for coming in front of the Senedd at 1.30 p.m. today, because that is the earliest moment at which I am able to report to you on decisions that were being made yesterday, and being made in consultation with our partners and with all the seriousness that Senedd Members would expect us to apply to these very difficult and challenging times. Having said that, I'm very happy to reply to the other points that Andrew R.T. Davies has made this afternoon. We review our regulations every three weeks. That's not the case in all other parts of the United Kingdom. That means we are able to act swiftly and flexibly to changing circumstances. While I am fearful that a number of the national measures we have had to put in place will last for some weeks or maybe even months, I don't want to put an artificial deadline on for how long they will last, because we will review them every three weeks and we will report every three weeks, both to the Welsh public and to the Senedd, on the extent to which they are still necessary. And if we were in the fortunate position of being able to lift those restrictions more quickly than six months, that is what I would wish to see, and that is the way we have approached this matter throughout the crisis and that's how I intend to continue to navigate through these difficult times. On the shielding population, there was no discussion at the COBRA meeting yesterday - no fresh advice to any of the Governments of the UK about returning to shielding. Shielding is a course of action that brings harms as well as protections. We know that many of those people who we asked to self-isolate in that way suffered from isolation and from an impact on their mental health and well-being. I know that the Chief Medical Officer for Wales is considering writing again to all the people who continue to be on our shielding list in Wales, updating them on the current position, providing them with further advice. But a blanket return to the position we had earlier in the year is not under consideration at this point in any part of the United Kingdom as far as I am aware. We will keep that too under very careful review. As for the 10 o'clock point, I was influenced in the discussions, which, as I say, went on well into the evening, by information I was receiving from the hospitality sector, particularly those restaurants that have worked hard to put a business model in place in Wales in which they are able to have two groups of people come into a restaurant in an evening: a first group at 7 o'clock in the evening, a break for necessary cleaning and coronavirus protections to take place, and then a further set of people who come to the restaurant at between 8.30 p.m. and 9 o'clock in the evening. We could have had an approach in Wales where, at 10 o'clock, all those people were required to leave and stand on the pavement. I think that would have caused real damage to that business model that people have worked so hard to put in place. And every time we make these decisions, we are balancing the needs of people in business and in employment with the need to protect public health. I think the sector is very used to not allowing people to act irresponsibly in the few minutes leading up to a 10 o'clock closure. Our system will allow people to drink up, to eat up, to bring their evening to an orderly close and then make their way home. That is the way the vast majority of people who go out for an evening here in Wales behave already. I didn't want to make their lives more difficult while we continue to bear down on that minority of people in Wales who have, as the evening gets later, found themselves consuming alcohol to an extent that they can no longer remember where they have been or who they have met with, and who, in the process, cause a wholly disproportionate impact on others. In our meeting last evening, of course we talked about whether a regional approach was now necessary in Wales. It was a very useful meeting; I was very grateful to all the agencies who took time to attend. As I said in my statement, Llywydd, the balance of opinion was that we've not yet reached that point, that there are still local measures in the hands of those local authorities that they are able to take alongside the new national measures that I outlined in my statement to Members. But the emphasis was also on the need for us to remain right on top of the figures, acting swiftly if we need to, and, if further action is required to protect public health, we will not hesitate to do so. Let me reinforce the important points that Andrew R.T. Davies made about the NHS remaining open for business. Such hard work has gone on in the NHS to create COVID-secure areas, to put new protections in place so that people who need treatment for other conditions can feel confident in coming forward for them, and that is very much the message from the NHS in Wales. If you need treatment, please be sure the NHS is still there for you in Wales. Finally, to Andrew R.T. Davies's point about students, he's absolutely right: at the age of 18, people going away to university, it is a great adventure in their lives. Sadly, this year, that adventure will be very different. We work really closely with all the higher education institutions here in Wales to make sure that those students coming from other parts of the United Kingdom and from overseas will still have as good an experience as we can possibly provide for them, whilst still needing them too to play their part in keeping themselves safe and not posing risks unnecessarily to other people in the localities that they will now be resident in, and will inevitably have anxieties of their own about what the future might hold.
Welsh: Lywydd, cododd Andrew R.T. Davies bwynt teg gyda mi ddoe ynglŷn â gwneud datganiad i'r Senedd cyn gynted ag y bo modd i mi wneud hynny. Dywedais yn fy ateb iddo bryd hynny na allwn warantu y byddai'r holl benderfyniadau angenrheidiol wedi'u gwneud mewn pryd i wneud datganiad o'r fath tra bo'r Senedd yn dal i eistedd ddoe. Mae'r penderfyniadau a wnawn drwy'r amser yn Llywodraeth Cymru yn benderfyniadau hollbwysig sy'n cael effaith ar fywydau cymaint o'n cyd-ddinasyddion. Roedd y penderfyniadau hynny'n dal i gael eu gwneud yn hwyr neithiwr. Nid wyf yn ymddiheuro am ddod gerbron y Senedd am 1.30 p.m. heddiw, gan mai dyma'r cyfle cyntaf y gallaf adrodd i chi am benderfyniadau a gafodd eu gwneud ddoe, ac a gafodd eu gwneud mewn ymgynghoriad â'n partneriaid a chyda'r difrifoldeb y byddai Aelodau o'r Senedd yn disgwyl inni ei arfer mewn cyfnod anodd a heriol dros ben. Wedi dweud hynny, rwy'n fwy na pharod i ymateb i'r pwyntiau eraill y mae Andrew R.T. Davies wedi'u gwneud y prynhawn yma. Rydym yn adolygu ein rheoliadau bob tair wythnos. Nid yw hynny'n wir ym mhob rhan arall o'r Deyrnas Unedig. Golyga hynny ein bod yn gallu gweithredu'n gyflym ac yn hyblyg wrth i amgylchiadau newid. Er fy mod yn ofni y bydd nifer o'r mesurau cenedlaethol y bu'n rhaid inni eu rhoi ar waith yn para am rai wythnosau neu fisoedd hyd yn oed o bosibl, nid wyf am roi terfyn amser artiffisial ar ba mor hir y byddant yn para, gan y byddwn yn eu hadolygu bob tair wythnos a byddwn yn rhoi gwybod bob tair wythnos i'r cyhoedd yng Nghymru ac i'r Senedd i ba raddau y maent yn dal i fod yn angenrheidiol. A phe baem yn y sefyllfa ffodus o allu llacio'r cyfyngiadau hynny ymhen llai na chwe mis, dyna fyddwn i'n hoffi ei weld, a dyna'r ffordd rydym wedi mynd i'r afael â'r mater hwn drwy gydol yr argyfwng a dyna sut rwy'n bwriadu parhau i lywio drwy'r cyfnod anodd hwn. O ran y boblogaeth sy'n gwarchod, ni chafwyd trafodaeth yng nghyfarfod COBRA ddoe - dim cyngor newydd i unrhyw un o Lywodraethau'r DU ynglŷn ag ailddechrau gwarchod. Mae gwarchod yn gam sy'n gallu achosi niwed yn ogystal â chynnig diogelwch. Gwyddom fod llawer o'r bobl y gwnaethom ofyn iddynt hunanynysu yn y ffordd honno wedi dioddef unigedd ac effaith ar eu hiechyd meddwl a'u lles. Gwn fod Prif Swyddog Meddygol Cymru yn ystyried ysgrifennu eto at yr holl bobl sy'n parhau i fod ar ein rhestr warchod yng Nghymru i roi'r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf iddynt ynglŷn â'r sefyllfa bresennol a rhoi cyngor pellach iddynt. Ond nid yw dychwelyd yn gyfan gwbl i'r sefyllfa a oedd gennym yn gynharach yn y flwyddyn o dan ystyriaeth ar hyn o bryd mewn unrhyw ran o'r Deyrnas Unedig hyd y gwn i. Byddwn yn parhau i adolygu hynny'n ofalus iawn hefyd. O ran y terfyn amser o 10 o'r gloch, cefais fy nylanwadu yn y trafodaethau, a aeth rhagddynt tan yn hwyr y nos, fel y dywedais, gan wybodaeth roeddwn yn ei chael o'r sector lletygarwch, yn enwedig y bwytai sydd wedi gweithio'n galed i roi model busnes ar waith yng Nghymru lle gallant gael dau grŵp o bobl mewn bwyty gyda'r nos: y grŵp cyntaf am 7 o'r gloch yr hwyr, seibiant ar gyfer y gwaith glanhau a'r mesurau diogelwch coronafeirws angenrheidiol, ac yna set arall o bobl sy'n dod i'r bwyty rhwng 8.30 a 9 o'r gloch yr hwyr. Gallem fod wedi cael sefyllfa yng Nghymru lle byddai gofyn i holl bobl adael am 10 o'r gloch a sefyll ar y palmant. Credaf y byddai hynny wedi achosi niwed gwirioneddol i'r model busnes y mae pobl wedi gweithio mor galed i'w roi ar waith. A phob tro y gwnawn y penderfyniadau hyn, rydym yn cydbwyso anghenion pobl yn y byd busnes ac mewn gwaith â'r angen i ddiogelu iechyd y cyhoedd. Credaf fod y sector wedi hen arfer â pheidio â chaniatáu i bobl ymddwyn yn anghyfrifol yn yr ychydig funudau cyn iddynt gau am 10 o'r gloch. Bydd ein system yn caniatáu i bobl orffen eu diodydd, gorffen eu bwyd, dod â'u noson i ben a gwneud eu ffordd adref. Dyna'r ffordd y mae'r rhan fwyaf o bobl sy'n mynd allan am noson yma yng Nghymru yn ymddwyn yn barod. Nid oeddwn yn dymuno gwneud eu bywydau'n anoddach wrth inni barhau i fynd i'r afael â'r lleiafrif o bobl yng Nghymru sydd, wrth i'r noson fynd yn ei blaen, wedi bod yn yfed alcohol i'r fath raddau fel na allant gofio ble maent wedi bod, a phwy y maent wedi'u cyfarfod, ac sydd, drwy hynny, yn achosi effaith gwbl anghymesur ar eraill. Yn ein cyfarfod neithiwr, buom yn trafod, wrth gwrs, a oedd angen dull rhanbarthol yng Nghymru bellach. Roedd yn gyfarfod defnyddiol iawn; roeddwn yn ddiolchgar iawn i'r holl asiantaethau a roddodd amser i'w fynychu. Fel y dywedais yn fy natganiad, Lywydd, y farn gyffredinol oedd nad ydym wedi cyrraedd y pwynt hwnnw eto, fod gan yr awdurdodau lleol fesurau lleol y gallant eu rhoi ar waith ochr yn ochr â'r mesurau cenedlaethol newydd a amlinellais yn fy natganiad i'r Aelodau. Ond roedd y pwyslais hefyd ar yr angen inni gadw llygad ar y ffigurau, gan roi camau ar waith ar unwaith os oes angen, ac os bydd angen camau pellach i ddiogelu iechyd y cyhoedd, ni fyddwn yn oedi rhag eu cymryd. Gadewch i mi gadarnhau'r pwyntiau pwysig a wnaeth Andrew R.T. Davies ynglŷn â'r GIG yn parhau ar agor. Mae cymaint o waith caled wedi'i wneud yn y GIG i greu mannau diogel rhag COVID-19, i roi mesurau diogelwch newydd ar waith fel y gall pobl sydd angen triniaethau ar gyfer cyflyrau eraill deimlo'n hyderus wrth ddod i'w cael, a dyna'n sicr yw'r neges gan y GIG yng Nghymru. Os oes angen triniaeth arnoch, cofiwch fod y GIG yn dal yno i chi yng Nghymru. Yn olaf, ar bwynt Andrew R.T. Davies ynglŷn â myfyrwyr, mae'n llygad ei le; pan fo pobl 18 oed yn mynd i'r brifysgol, mae'n antur wych yn eu bywydau. Yn anffodus, bydd yr antur honno'n wahanol iawn eleni. Rydym yn gweithio'n agos iawn gyda'r holl sefydliadau addysg uwch yma yng Nghymru i sicrhau y bydd y myfyrwyr sy'n dod o rannau eraill o'r Deyrnas Unedig ac o dramor yn dal i gael profiad cystal ag y gallwn ei roi iddynt, er bod angen iddynt hwythau chwarae eu rhan yn cadw eu hunain yn ddiogel a pheidio â chreu risgiau diangen i bobl eraill yn yr ardaloedd y byddant yn byw ynddynt, ac yn anochel, bydd ganddynt eu pryderon eu hunain ynghylch yr hyn a allai ddigwydd yn y dyfodol.