English: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I thank the Chair of the committee for his as ever constructive comments and points for us to respond to, not just today. But I think it may be best if I write to the committee to deal with all of the comments that he's made to respect the level of detail that he's gone through. And we do want to make sure that as we need to continue to act, and we'll need to continue to act for several months more at the very least, that we do take account of the helpful points made in scrutiny about how we get the regulations right in terms of their legal meaning, and also dealing with the points about communication that Rhun ap Iorwerth finished on. Of course, the reality is that we are making these regulations in accordance with the rules of this institution. This is made affirmative legislation, exactly as we have done throughout the course of this crisis, and I do feel that the points that Andrew R.T. Davies makes don't take account of the fact that we had months and months of legislating in this way. I don't think there's anything unusual about it; it's the reality that we're having to take extraordinary measures to respond, and to use the extraordinary procedures that this Parliament has in place to do so. We're in the middle of an accelerating wave of coronavirus. If we were to say that the Government was not entitled to act, the Government was not able to act to protect people across Wales as the position changed without having an affirmative resolution beforehand, then we would undoubtedly make the position of the people of Wales less safe, and this Government would be less able to keep our people safe. I don't understate the seriousness of the reality that the Government is legislating first then asking for endorsement afterwards, but that is, I'm afraid, the reality of the seriousness of the position. It also, of course, in terms of the gap, allows the committee chaired by Mick Antoniw to provide their scrutiny reports for Members to consider. I welcome the support that the Conservative spokesperson indicated for the move to 10 days on self-isolation in terms of improving messaging. That is part of what we are constantly striving to do all the time. I think we've been very clear about the messages we have. There is new information available from Welsh Government today in terms of the broader messaging about coronavirus and Christmas, and asking people to do the right thing. I think Members across parties should be able to look at that and, hopefully, share it and encourage constituents across the country of all and any political persuasion to think again about all the choices that we're making. You'll hear Ministers from every one of the four Governments in the United Kingdom asking people right across the UK to do just that. And on the app, I haven't seen the story he refers to about Transport for Wales, but I'm very clear that the app should continue to be used and would encourage as many people to download it as possible. I don't believe that any business should be asking anybody to remove the app because it would affect the operation of their business. It's there to help keep people safe, including the people who you would work alongside in a business, if you were advised to self-isolate because of the risk that has been presented to you and potentially your fellow workers, and I don't think we can be any clearer about that. On your continued request for a limited and targeted approach, it's never really clear what that actually means, but it's always been the case, ever since you've started calling for that particular approach from your return to this position on the Conservative front bench, that we've had very clear advice from the technical advisory group that all-Wales measures at this point in time are appropriate, simpler and easier for the public to understand and adhere to and follow - simpler and easier for all of us to be able to act together to help protect Wales. Look, I appreciate that he has a different view, but we have very clear, and published - regularly published - advice that underscores the Government's position. On the new variant, yes, I'm aware we do have a handful of cases already within Wales. I expect to have more information in the coming days as we do more genomic sequencing from test results here in Wales, and Public Health Wales will provide more information when that is available. It isn't clear whether the new variant really is one that spreads more rapidly, but, in any event, we know that coronavirus does spread rapidly with the variants we've already been aware of. The positive news is that we don't believe that this particular variant would affect the efficacy of a vaccine, which was the main concern about the mink variant from Denmark that caused extraordinary measures to be taken very late at night on a weekend, as I and Welsh Government officials know, before we came to this Parliament to ask for approval. On your broader point about opposing a range of restrictions, I really do think it is extraordinary to continue to oppose restrictions, given the ongoing position and the seriousness within which we find ourselves as a country. At best, I think it's tone deaf to demand improvements whilst opposing measures to deliver improvements that are evidenced by an evidence review from not only our technical advisory group, but also SAGE, on a repeated number of occasions as well. I think people in Wales should take comfort in the fact that we are taking our public health advice from SAGE, from TAG, from our own chief medical officer, and, in doing so, we're supported in taking those measures by the broad approach of every single chief medical officer across the United Kingdom in doing so, and I think that will be the main source of the advice that I take on public health, as opposed to the individual view of Mr Davies. On Rhun ap Iorwerth's point about the logic, the evidence of what works across the UK is the logic for why we introduced these restrictions, and again, that same evidence from SAGE and TAC - hard evidence of what works. So, that's why we've introduced these restrictions. On your broader point about communication, we constantly look at how we try to have a message that is clear and simple, in amongst the noise that exists, with all the more contested environments, within the political atmosphere, but also within a range of social media and other channels, and the way in which we are looking to try to recover, where we can do, a more consistent four-nations approach with messaging for the public. It's about how we help people to make choices, but ultimately the Government has responsibilities that we need to meet, and then all of us, every single one of us in the country, have responsibilities to consider what we should do to keep ourselves and each other safe. We are still in the middle of a significant and unfinished pandemic that will take the lives of many more Welsh citizens before this is over. That helps to underscore why these measures remain important and why they are a proportionate response to the level of threat that we all face. I ask Members to support the regulations today.
Welsh: Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. Rwy'n diolch i Gadeirydd y pwyllgor am ei sylwadau a'i bwyntiau adeiladol fel arfer inni ymateb iddynt, nid yn unig heddiw. Ond rwy'n credu mai'r peth gorau fydddai pe bawn i'n ysgrifennu at y pwyllgor i ymdrin â'r holl sylwadau a wnaeth ef er mwyn parchu'r lefel o fanylder sydd ganddo Ac rydym ni'n awyddus i sicrhau, gan fod angen inni barhau i weithredu, ac fe fydd yna angen inni barhau i weithredu am rai misoedd eto o leiaf, ein bod ni'n ystyried y pwyntiau defnyddiol a wnaeth wrth graffu ar y modd yr ydym ni'n gweithredu'r rheoliadau priodol o ran eu hystyr gyfreithiol nhw, a hefyd yn ymdrin â'r pwyntiau o ran cyfathrebu y gwnaeth Rhun ap Iorwerth sôn amdanyn nhw ar ddiwedd ei gyfraniad ef. Wrth gwrs, y gwir amdani yw ein bod ni'n gweithredu'r rheoliadau hyn yn unol â rheolau'r sefydliad hwn. Fe wneir honno'n ddeddfwriaeth gadarnhaol, yn union fel y gwnaethom drwy gydol yr argyfwng hwn, ac rwy'n teimlo nad yw'r pwyntiau a wna Andrew R.T. Davies yn rhoi ystyriaeth i'r ffaith inni weld misoedd ar fisoedd o ddeddfu yn y modd hwn. Nid wyf i o'r farn fod yna unrhyw beth anarferol yn hynny; y gwir amdani yw bod yn rhaid inni gymryd camau eithriadol ar gyfer yr ymateb, a defnyddio'r gweithdrefnau eithriadol sydd gan y Senedd hon ar waith i wneud hynny. Rydym ni ynghanol ton gyflymach o'r coronafeirws. Pe byddem yn dweud nad oes gan y Llywodraeth yr hawl i weithredu, na fyddai'r Llywodraeth yn gallu gweithredu i amddiffyn pobl ledled Cymru wrth i'r sefyllfa newid heb inni wneud penderfyniad cadarnhaol ymlaen llaw, yna fe fyddem ni, yn ddiamau, yn gwneud sefyllfa pobl Cymru yn llai diogel, ac fe fyddai'r Llywodraeth hon yn llai galluog i gadw ein pobl ni'n ddiogel. Nid wyf i'n bychanu difrifoldeb y sefyllfa wirioneddol enbyd o'r Llywodraeth yn deddfu yn gyntaf ac yna'n gofyn am gymeradwyaeth wedi hynny, ond dyna, rwy'n ofni, yw difrifoldeb gwirioneddol y sefyllfa. Mae hyn hefyd, wrth gwrs, o ran y bwlch, yn caniatáu i'r pwyllgor a gadeirir gan Mick Antoniw ddarparu ei adroddiadau craffu i'r Aelodau eu hystyried. Rwy'n croesawu'r gefnogaeth a nododd llefarydd y Ceidwadwyr o blaid symud i 10 diwrnod o hunanynysu, o ran gwella'r cyfathrebu. Mae hynny'n rhan o'r hyn yr ydym ni'n ymdrechu'n barhaus i'w wneud bob amser. Rwy'n credu ein bod ni wedi bod yn eglur iawn am y negeseuon sydd gennym ni. Mae gwybodaeth newydd ar gael gan Lywodraeth Cymru heddiw o ran y genadwri ehangach am y coronafeirws a'r Nadolig, a gofyn i bobl wneud y peth iawn. Rwy'n credu y dylai'r Aelodau ar draws y pleidiau roi ystyriaeth i hynny a'i gyfathrebu ac annog etholwyr ledled y wlad ac o unrhyw duedd wleidyddol i ailfeddwl am yr holl ddewisiadau a wnawn ni. Fe fyddwch chi'n clywed Gweinidogion o bob un o'r pedair Llywodraeth yn y Deyrnas Unedig yn gofyn i bobl ledled y DU wneud hynny. Ac o ran yr ap, nid wyf i wedi clywed y stori am Drafnidiaeth Cymru y cyfeiriwyd ati, ond rwyf i'n dweud yn eglur iawn y dylid parhau i ddefnyddio'r ap ac fe fyddaf i'n annog cynifer o bobl â phosibl i'w lawrlwytho. Nid wyf yn credu y dylai unrhyw fusnes fod yn gofyn i unrhyw un ddileu'r ap gan y byddai'n effeithio ar weithrediad eu busnes nhw. Mae'r ap yno i helpu i gadw pobl yn ddiogel, gan gynnwys y bobl y byddech chi'n gweithio yn eu hymyl mewn busnes, pe byddech chi'n cael eich cynghori i hunanynysu oherwydd y risg i chi a'ch cydweithwyr chi o bosibl, ac nid wyf i'n credu y gallwn fod yn gliriach ynglŷn â hynny. O ran eich cais parhaus chi am ddull cyfyngedig o weithredu wedi'i dargedu, ni fu'n glir erioed beth mae hynny'n ei olygu mewn gwirionedd. Ond mae wedi bod yn wir bob amser, ers ichi ddechrau galw am y dull penodol hwnnw o weithredu pan wnaethoch ddychwelyd i'r swydd hon ar fainc flaen y Ceidwadwyr, ein bod ni wedi cael cyngor clir iawn gan y grŵp cynghori technegol bod mesurau Cymru gyfan ar hyn o bryd yn gymwys, yn symlach ac yn haws i'r cyhoedd eu deall a'u dilyn - yn symlach ac yn haws i bob un ohonom allu gweithio gyda'n gilydd i helpu i ddiogelu Cymru. Wrth gwrs, rwy'n sylweddoli bod ganddo ef farn wahanol, ond mae cyngor clir iawn gennym ni yn cael ei gyhoeddi - a'i gyhoeddi'n rheolaidd - sy'n tanlinellu safbwynt y Llywodraeth. O ran yr amrywiolyn newydd, ydw, rwy'n ymwybodol bod gennym ni lond het o achosion yng Nghymru eisoes. Rwy'n disgwyl rhagor o wybodaeth yn y dyddiau nesaf wrth inni wneud mwy o ddilyniannu genomig o ganlyniadau profion yma yng Nghymru, ac fe fydd Iechyd Cyhoeddus Cymru yn rhoi mwy o wybodaeth pan fydd hynny ar gael. Nid yw'n eglur a yw'r amrywiolyn newydd yn un sy'n lledaenu'n gyflymach, ond, beth bynnag am hynny, fe wyddom fod y coronafeirws yn ymledu'n gyflym gyda'r amrywiolion y buom ni'n ymwybodol ohonyn nhw eisoes. Y newyddion cadarnhaol yw nad ydym yn credu y byddai'r amrywiolyn penodol hwn yn effeithio ar effeithiolrwydd brechlyn, sef y prif bryder am yr amrywiolyn yn y mincod o Ddenmarc a achosodd i fesurau eithriadol gael eu cymryd yn hwyr iawn yn y nos dros benwythnos, fel y gŵyr swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru a minnau, cyn inni ddod i'r Senedd hon i ofyn am gymeradwyaeth. O ran eich pwynt ehangach chi ynglŷn â gwrthwynebu amrywiaeth o gyfyngiadau, rwy'n credu'n wir ei bod hi'n beth rhyfedd iawn eich bod chi'n parhau i wrthwynebu cyfyngiadau, o ystyried y sefyllfa barhaus a'r enbydrwydd sydd yn ein gwlad ni. Ar y gorau, rwy'n credu ei bod yn anystyriol iawn mynnu gwelliannau ac ar yr un pryd wrthwynebu mesurau i gyflawni gwelliannau y mae adolygiad o dystiolaeth nid yn unig gan ein grŵp cynghori technegol ni, ond hefyd SAGE, yn tystiolaethu iddyn nhw dro ar ôl tro. Rwy'n credu y dylai pobl yng Nghymru gael cysur yn y ffaith ein bod ni'n cael ein cyngor o ran iechyd y cyhoedd gan SAGE, gan y Grŵp Cyngor Technegol, gan ein prif swyddog meddygol ni ein hunain, ac, wrth wneud hynny, rydym yn cael ein cefnogi i gymryd y mesurau hynny drwy ddilyn dull eang pob un prif swyddog meddygol ledled y Deyrnas Unedig wrth wneud felly. Ac rwy'n credu mai dyna fydd fy mhrif ffynhonnell i o'r cyngor rwy'n ei gymryd o ran iechyd y cyhoedd, yn hytrach na barn unigol Mr Davies. O ran pwynt Rhun ap Iorwerth am y rhesymeg, y dystiolaeth o'r hyn sy'n gweithio ledled y DU yw'r rhesymeg wrth wraidd cyflwyno'r cyfyngiadau hyn, ac eto, yr un dystiolaeth oddi wrth SAGE a'r Grŵp Cyngor Technegol - tystiolaeth gadarn o'r hyn sy'n gweithio. Felly, dyna pam rydym ni wedi cyflwyno'r cyfyngiadau hyn. O ran eich pwynt ehangach chi am gyfathrebu, rydym yn edrych yn gyson ar sut yr ydym yn ceisio cyflwyno neges glir a syml, yng nghanol yr holl sŵn sydd o gwmpas, gyda'r holl amgylcheddau mwy cystadleuol eu naws, o fewn yr awyrgylch gwleidyddol, ond o fewn ystod o gyfryngau cymdeithasol a sianelau eraill hefyd. Ac rydym yn ceisio sicrhau, os oes modd, ddull mwy cyson gan y pedair gwlad o ran y genadwri i'r cyhoedd. Mae'n ymwneud â sut rydym ni'n helpu pobl i wneud dewisiadau, ond yn y pen draw mae gan y Llywodraeth gyfrifoldebau y mae angen inni eu cymryd, ac yna mae gan bob un ohonom ni, pob unigolyn yn ein gwlad ni, gyfrifoldebau i ystyried yr hyn y dylem ni ei wneud i gadw ni ein hunain a'n gilydd yn ddiogel. Rydym ni'n parhau i fod ynghanol pandemig enbydus ac anorffenedig a fydd yn hawlio bywydau llawer mwy o ddinasyddion Cymru cyn iddo ddod i ben. Mae hynny'n helpu i danlinellu pam mae'r mesurau hyn yn parhau i fod yn bwysig a pham maen nhw'n ymateb cymesur i lefel y bygythiad yr ydym ni i gyd yn ei wynebu. Rwy'n gofyn i'r Aelodau gefnogi'r rheoliadau heddiw.