English: Thank you. Well, I hope that will help local authorities and health boards to better understand how to reconcile their procurement obligations with their obligations to design and deliver services for local people, because there is a conflict between the two. Again, noting your responsibilities, you know that the Welsh Government's 'A Healthier Wales: our Plan for Health and Social Care' has an ambition to bring health and social care services together, so they're designed and delivered again around the needs and preferences of individuals. And the Welsh Government itself says, 'We may also need to change how we pay for health and social care services.' Again, noting your responsibilities, how do you respond to, again, a growing concern raised with me of local authorities removing direct payments from people, in discussion with health boards, who are then being moved on to continuing health care? They're losing their independence, they're losing their ability to live in their own homes, sometimes with support, and frequently ending up being told through the health support that they're going to have to go into some sort of statutory residential provision, or commissioned care, rather than having their own front door. And this is exacerbated by a Welsh Government requirement that personal budgets must not be pooled, unlike in Scotland and England, which prevents a local authority pooling the direct payments with the continuing health care budget. How, then, is the Welsh Government going to enable people affected by this to continue to live independently, rather than being forced to lose voice, choice and control over their own lives?
Welsh: Diolch. Wel, gobeithiaf y bydd hynny'n helpu awdurdodau lleol a byrddau iechyd i gael gwell dealltwriaeth o sut i gysoni eu rhwymedigaethau caffael â'u rhwymedigaethau i gynllunio a darparu gwasanaethau ar gyfer pobl leol, oherwydd mae'r ddau beth yn gwrthdaro. Unwaith eto, gan nodi eich cyfrifoldebau, fe wyddoch fod yna uchelgais yng nghynllun 'Cymru Iachach: Ein Cynllun ar gyfer Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol' Llywodraeth Cymru i ddod ag iechyd a gwasanaethau gofal cymdeithasol at ei gilydd, fel eu bod yn cael eu cynllunio a'u darparu o amgylch anghenion a dewisiadau unigolion. Ac mae Llywodraeth Cymru ei hun yn dweud, Efallai y bydd angen i ni newid y ffordd rydym yn talu am wasanaethau iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol. Unwaith eto, gan nodi eich cyfrifoldebau, sut rydych chi'n ymateb i'r pryder cynyddol sy'n cael ei ddwyn i fy sylw fod awdurdodau lleol, mewn trafodaeth gyda byrddau iechyd, yn mynd â thaliadau uniongyrchol oddi wrth bobl sydd wedyn yn cael eu symud i ofal iechyd parhaus? Maent yn colli eu hannibyniaeth, maent yn colli eu gallu i fyw yn eu cartrefi eu hunain, weithiau gyda chymorth, ac yn aml iawn mae rhywun yn dweud wrthynt, drwy'r cymorth iechyd, y byddant yn gorfod symud i ryw fath o ddarpariaeth breswyl statudol, neu ofal wedi'i gomisiynu, yn hytrach na chael eu cartrefi eu hunain. Ac mae'r ffaith bod Llywodraeth Cymru yn mynnu na ddylid cyfuno cyllidebau personol, yn wahanol i'r Alban a Lloegr, yn gwneud hyn yn waeth ac yn atal awdurdod lleol rhag cyfuno'r taliadau uniongyrchol gyda'r gyllideb gofal iechyd parhaus. Sut, felly, y bydd Llywodraeth Cymru yn galluogi'r bobl yr mae hyn yn effeithio arnynt i barhau i fyw'n annibynnol, yn hytrach na chael eu gorfodi i golli llais, dewis a rheolaeth ar eu bywydau eu hunain?