English: Llywydd, can I begin by agreeing with what Simon Thomas said at the start of his remarks? It is deeply disappointing that the UK Government, having given an explicit commitment to bring forward amendments at Report Stage, have failed to do so. Their narrative throughout the Committee Stage of the Bill was that they were going to listen to what was said and they would reflect on that. And the Secretary of State for Scotland, during part of that debate, said absolutely explicitly that the result of that consideration would be amendments at the Report Stage. So, of course, we are equally disappointed that that has not turned out to be the case. Let me give the Member an assurance that I have never trusted the Tories on this or any other matter - [ Interruption.] Well, if I had, I'd have been very disappointed in this instance, wouldn't I? But, what the responsible Government has to do is to hold the Government to the commitment that it has made, and so I will be writing today to the new Secretary of State, David Lidington, making it clear that we expect the assurances that were given to Scotland and to Wales at the Joint Ministerial Committee that officials would meet urgently so that we could work to what we hope would be an agreed set of amendments to the withdrawal Bill - that those discussions now urgently need to take place. They have been delayed, exactly as Simon Thomas says, because of the exigencies of the Conservative party. Because of the difficulties they are experiencing, the rest of the United Kingdom has had to be held up in these vitally important discussions. It remains the position of the Welsh Government that we would like to see the withdrawal Bill succeed. We would like to be in a position where there was an amendment to clause 11 that we could agree with the Conservative Government and with the Scottish Government, and we could bring a legislative consent motion in front of this Assembly that we could recommend for approval. But I say again to this Chamber and to the United Kingdom Government that if they're not in that position, if they continue to drag their feet, if they continue to fail to have the necessary discussions, we have a continuity Bill. We have a continuity Bill that we have prepared, that is in a state that is ready to be introduced, and if we can't get a solution by our preferred route, which is to put the withdrawal Bill in proper order, then we will have to bring forward the Bill that Simon Thomas has referred to.
Welsh: Lywydd, a gaf fi ddechrau drwy gytuno â'r hyn a ddywedodd Simon Thomas ar ddechrau ei sylwadau? Mae'n hynod siomedig fod Llywodraeth y DU, ar ôl rhoi ymrwymiad pendant i gyflwyno gwelliannau yn y Cyfnod Adrodd, wedi methu gwneud hynny. Eu naratif drwy gydol Cyfnod Pwyllgor y Bil oedd eu bod am wrando ar yr hyn a ddywedwyd ac y byddent yn myfyrio ar hynny. A dywedodd Ysgrifennydd Gwladol yr Alban yn hollol glir, yn ystod rhan o'r ddadl honno, mai canlyniad yr ystyriaeth honno fyddai gwelliannau yn y Cyfnod Adrodd. Felly, wrth gwrs, rydym yr un mor siomedig nad felly y mae. Gadewch i mi roi sicrwydd i'r Aelod nad wyf erioed wedi ymddiried yn y Torïaid ar y mater hwn nac unrhyw fater arall - [ Torri ar draws.] Wel, pe bawn, buaswn wedi bod yn siomedig iawn yn yr achos hwn, oni fuaswn? Ond yr hyn sy'n rhaid i'r Llywodraeth gyfrifol ei wneud yw dwyn y Llywodraeth i gyfrif am yr ymrwymiad a wnaeth, ac felly byddaf yn ysgrifennu at yr Ysgrifennydd Gwladol newydd, David Lidington, heddiw gan ei gwneud yn glir ein bod yn disgwyl y sicrwydd a roddwyd i'r Alban ac i Gymru yn y Cyd-bwyllgor Gweinidogion y byddai swyddogion yn cyfarfod ar frys fel y gallem weithio tuag at yr hyn y gobeithiwn y byddai'n gyfres o welliannau wedi'u cytuno i'r Bil ymadael - fod angen i'r trafodaethau hynny ddigwydd ar frys. Maent wedi cael eu gohirio, yn union fel y dywed Simon Thomas, oherwydd cyfyngderau'r blaid Geidwadol. Oherwydd yr anawsterau y maent yn eu hwynebu, bu'n rhaid i weddill y Deyrnas Unedig oedi cyn cael y trafodaethau hanfodol bwysig hyn. Safbwynt Llywodraeth Cymru o hyd yw y byddem yn hoffi gweld y Bil ymadael yn llwyddo. Byddem yn hoffi bod mewn sefyllfa lle gallem gytuno ar welliant i gymal 11 gyda'r Llywodraeth Geidwadol a chyda Llywodraeth yr Alban, a gallem gyflwyno cynnig cydsyniad deddfwriaethol gerbron y Cynulliad hwn y gallem ei argymell i'w gymeradwyo. Ond rwy'n dweud eto wrth y Siambr hon ac wrth Lywodraeth y Deyrnas Unedig, os nad ydynt yn y sefyllfa honno, os ydynt yn parhau i lusgo traed, os ydynt yn parhau i fethu cael y trafodaethau angenrheidiol, mae gennym Fil parhad. Mae gennym Fil parhad rydym wedi'i baratoi, sydd mewn cyflwr sy'n barod i'w gyflwyno, ac os na allwn gael ateb drwy ddilyn y llwybr rydym yn ei ffafrio, sef drwy roi trefn briodol ar y Bil ymadael, bydd yn rhaid i ni gyflwyno'r Bil y mae Simon Thomas wedi cyfeirio ato.