English: Oscar was always very warm. On my first day in the Senedd, I was walking with the Llywydd and we bumped into the Conservative group. Everyone shook my hand, but Oscar came right across to me and gave me a hug. He worked closely, of course, with two of my predecessors, with Steffan Lewis, who worked in his office, and with Jocelyn Davies, who was a fellow regional AM with Oscar. Last night, Jocelyn told me a few stories I'd like to share with you. In the 2007 count, Jocelyn and Oscar had gone up to the stage together to be announced as duly elected. The British National Party, pathetic as they are, had waited in the room for hours in order to walk out at the moment that Oscar's name was announced. Oscar smiled through it, and Jocelyn said that hugging him as the BNP crawled away felt like a little victory over prejudice and hatred. As has already been said, Oscar was committed to his faith, and Jocelyn told me about another time that Dai Lloyd and Cynog Dafis were going to address the Newport mosque at the invitation of Oscar and Jocelyn. They all turned up on a Friday afternoon, and at that moment Oscar dropped the bombshell that only the men would be allowed into the mosque, and Jocelyn asked, 'Well, where will I be?', to which Oscar replied, 'In my heart'. As Jocelyn said last night, he even managed to take the sting out of that, and I understand that he actually persuaded the mosque to let her in as well. Oscar wasn't with Plaid for long, but he served the people of South Wales East with dedication, always with his own ideas and with enthusiasm. In politics, as in life, it doesn't do to harbour bitterness. In 2016, at the count when Oscar was announced as being elected, this time, of course, as a Conservative Member, he still went up to Jocelyn and said, 'Thank you, boss.' I'll close with the traditional saying of Muslims on hearing the tidings of somebody's death, 'Verily we belong to God, and verily to Him do we return.'
Welsh: Roedd Oscar bob amser yn gynnes iawn. Ar fy niwrnod cyntaf yn y Senedd, roeddwn yn cerdded gyda'r Llywydd ac fe wnaethom ni daro ar y grŵp Ceidwadol. Roedd pawb yn ysgwyd fy llaw, ond daeth Oscar yn syth ataf a rhoi cwtsh i mi. Bu'n gweithio'n agos, wrth gwrs, gyda dau o'm rhagflaenwyr, gyda Steffan Lewis, a weithiai yn ei swyddfa, a chyda Jocelyn Davies, a oedd yn gyd-Aelod rhanbarthol gydag Oscar. Neithiwr, dywedodd Jocelyn wrthyf am rai o'r storïau yr hoffwn eu rhannu â chi. Yng nghyfrif 2007, roedd Jocelyn ac Oscar wedi mynd i'r llwyfan gyda'i gilydd ar gyfer y cyhoeddiad eu bod wedi eu hethol yn briodol. Roedd y Blaid Genedlaethol Brydeinig, mor druenus ydyn nhw, wedi aros yn yr ystafell am oriau er mwyn cerdded allan ar yr union adeg y cyhoeddwyd enw Oscar. Gwenodd Oscar drwyddi, a dywedodd Jocelyn fod ei gofleidio wrth i'r BNP gropian ymaith yn teimlo fel buddugoliaeth fach dros ragfarn a chasineb. Fel y dywedwyd eisoes, roedd Oscar wedi ymrwymo i'w ffydd, a dywedodd Jocelyn wrthyf am dro arall yr aeth Dai Lloyd a Cynog Dafis i annerch mosg Casnewydd ar wahoddiad Oscar a Jocelyn. Daeth pob un ohonynt ar brynhawn dydd Gwener, ac ar y foment honno, gollyngodd Oscar yr ergyd mai dim ond y dynion fyddai'n cael mynd i mewn i'r mosg, a gofynnodd Jocelyn, 'Wel, ble fydda i?', ac atebodd Oscar, 'Yn fy nghalon i'. Fel y dywedodd Jocelyn neithiwr, llwyddodd hyd yn oed i dynnu'r pigiad o hynny, a deallaf ei fod mewn gwirionedd wedi perswadio'r mosg i ganiatáu iddi fynd i mewn hefyd. Nid oedd Oscar gyda'r Blaid yn hir, ond bu'n gwasanaethu pobl Dwyrain De Cymru gydag ymroddiad, gyda'i syniadau ei hun a chyda brwdfrydedd bob amser. Mewn gwleidyddiaeth, fel mewn bywyd, nid yw'n gwneud y tro i fod yn chwerw. Yn 2016, yn y cyfrif pan gyhoeddwyd bod Oscar wedi cael ei ethol, y tro hwn, wrth gwrs, fel Aelod Ceidwadol, aeth at Jocelyn yr un fath a dweud, 'Diolch, bos.' Rwyf am gloi gyda dywediad traddodiadol y Mwslimiaid ar glywed y newyddion am farwolaeth rhywun, 'Yn wir rydym yn perthyn i Dduw, ac yn wir ato Yntau yr ydym yn dychwelyd.'