English: Minister, thank you for that response. In my colleague Nick Ramsay's short debate on motor neurone disease last week, you were talking about the 40 weeks for large-scale home adaptations, and of course, it's not just for people with MND. With COVID, having listened to Long Covid Wales's evidence this morning in the health and social care committee, it's pretty obvious that there are going to be some cases there; people who've had road traffic accidents, survived sepsis, been in intensive care; very often there are serious things that require their homes to be adapted. Forty weeks is an incredibly long time. I had one particular farmer who broke his back on the farm and because he lived in a listed house, they just simply weren't even allowed to put a steel rod in to be able to have a hoist that would have allowed him to live at home. And you talked earlier just now about just allowing people to live healthier, happier lives at home; well, actually, for some people, that's where they want to be and we're all about giving choice. So, will you look at seeing how we might be able to liaise with the planning department in these very rare instances where people need those adaptations to be able to have a way through the entire planning system? Because the alternative if you cannot get those plans through, if you cannot build that extension, if you cannot put that hoist in and the structure that's needed for it, is that those people will have to leave their home and either go into state care or the whole family have to sell up and try and find somewhere else to live. That's a shocking disruption, and I would have thought in our society we could have said, 'Actually, occasionally people are allowed an exception to the normal rules and regulations.' I just think we should be able to put a plan in place and I'd like your thoughts on that.
Welsh: Weinidog, diolch ichi am yr ymateb hwnnw. Yn nadl fer fy nghyd-Aelod Nick Ramsay ar glefyd niwronau motor yr wythnos diwethaf, roeddech yn sôn am y 40 wythnos ar gyfer addasiadau mawr i'r cartref, ac wrth gwrs, nid mater i bobl â chlefyd niwronau motor yn unig yw hwn. Gyda COVID, ar ôl gwrando ar dystiolaeth Covid Hir Cymru y bore yma yn y pwyllgor iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol, mae'n eithaf amlwg y bydd rhai achosion yno; pobl sydd wedi cael damweiniau traffig ar y ffyrdd, pobl sydd wedi goroesi sepsis, pobl sydd wedi bod mewn gofal dwys; yn aml iawn, mae yna bethau difrifol sy'n galw am addasiadau i'r cartref. Mae 40 wythnos yn amser eithriadol o hir. Roedd gennyf un ffermwr penodol a dorrodd ei gefn ar y fferm ac oherwydd ei fod yn byw mewn tŷ rhestredig, nid oeddent yn cael gosod ffon ddur hyd yn oed i allu cael teclyn codi a fyddai wedi caniatáu iddo fyw gartref. Ac fe sonioch chi nawr am ganiatáu i bobl fyw bywydau iachach a hapusach gartref; wel, mewn gwirionedd, i rai pobl, dyna lle maent eisiau bod ac rydym ni eisiau gallu rhoi'r dewis iddynt. Felly, a wnewch chi ystyried sut y gallem gysylltu â'r adran gynllunio yn yr achosion prin iawn hyn lle mae pobl angen yr addasiadau hynny i allu dod o hyd i ffordd drwy'r system gynllunio gyfan? Oherwydd os na allwch gael y cynlluniau hynny drwodd, os na allwch adeiladu'r estyniad hwnnw, os na allwch osod y teclyn codi hwnnw a'r strwythur sydd ei angen ar ei gyfer, bydd yn rhaid i'r bobl hynny adael eu cartref a mynd i ofal y wladwriaeth neu bydd yn rhaid i'r teulu cyfan werthu a cheisio dod o hyd i rywle arall i fyw. Mae hwnnw'n amhariad brawychus, a byddwn wedi meddwl, yn ein cymdeithas ni, y gallem fod wedi dweud, 'Mewn gwirionedd, weithiau, mae modd eithrio rhai pobl rhag y rheolau a'r rheoliadau arferol.' Rwy'n credu y dylem allu rhoi cynllun ar waith a hoffwn gael eich barn ar hynny.