English: This statement today by the Cabinet Secretary for economy will be met with disappointment and dismay by everyone who has experienced delay in their journey time due to congestion on the M4, including myself, who travels virtually four times a week. If I leave before seven o'clock, it takes me still more than 40 minutes from Newport to this place. Lord help those who come after half past seven and spend more than one hour on the M4 just to reach Cardiff, only 10 to 12 miles. That is actually congestion every day. Just two weeks after Labour's programme for government - [Interruption.] Just two weeks after Labour's programme for government made a commitment to building an M4 relief road, they have kicked the project, once again, into the long grass. This is a fact. Poor transport infrastructure and lack of capacity means that the south Wales corridor is not fit for purpose and is discouraging businesses locally, nationally and internationally from investing in Wales. So why has the Cabinet Secretary chosen to ignore the existing evidence of the need for a relief road and delay the public inquiry? CBI Wales, the Institute of Directors, the Engineering Employers Federation and the South Wales Chamber of Commerce have all called for a quick decision to be made in this respect. The Cabinet Secretary has tried to blame the Department for Transport. He claims the department only advised him of the new matters of projecting the amount of traffic three days before they were introduced. The department denies this and says that it warned Welsh officials of this change earlier this year. Will the Cabinet Secretary agree to publish all correspondence between his officials and the Department for Transport to clarify this issue? Changes to the system of traffic forecasting were introduced over the summer, so why has it taken the Cabinet Secretary so long to announce the delay in starting the public inquiry? South Wales East, this Assembly, sporting events and businesses: people travel on the M4 in not tens of thousands, but hundreds of thousands, Cabinet Secretary. We need the M4 to be completed as soon as possible - 2021 is not good enough here. The unreliablity of this stretch of road will increasingly generate additional costs and uncertainty for business, harm tourism and cause frustration for motorists. The Welsh Labour Government has once again let down the Welsh public here. Thank you.
Welsh: Bydd y datganiad hwn heddiw gan Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros yr economi yn peri siom a gofid i bawb sydd wedi profi oedi i amser eu taith oherwydd tagfeydd ar yr M4, gan gynnwys fi fy hun, sy'n teithio bron pedair gwaith yr wythnos. Os wyf yn gadael cyn 07:00, mae'n dal i gymryd mwy na 40 munud i mi deithio o Gasnewydd i'r lle hwn. Duw â helpo'r rhai hynny sy'n dod ar ôl hanner awr wedi saith ac yn treulio mwy nag awr ar yr M4 dim ond i gyrraedd Caerdydd, sydd ond 10 i 12 milltir. Mae hynny mewn gwirionedd yn golygu tagfeydd bob dydd. Dim ond pythefnos ar ôl i raglen lywodraethu Llafur - [Torri ar draws.] Dim ond pythefnos ar ôl i raglen lywodraethu Llafur wneud ymrwymiad i adeiladu ffordd liniaru ar yr M4, maent wedi ei roi, unwaith eto, o'r neilltu. Mae hyn yn ffaith. Mae seilwaith trafnidiaeth gwael a diffyg capasiti yn golygu nad yw coridor de Cymru yn addas at y diben ac mae'n annog busnesau lleol, yn genedlaethol ac yn rhyngwladol, i beidio â buddsoddi yng Nghymru. Felly pam mae Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet wedi dewis anwybyddu'r dystiolaeth sy'n bodoli eisoes ynglŷn â'r angen am ffordd liniaru ac wedi dewis gohirio'r ymchwiliad cyhoeddus? Mae CBI Cymru, Sefydliad y Cyfarwyddwyr, y Ffederasiwn Cyflogwyr Peirianyddol a Siambr Fasnach De Cymru i gyd wedi galw am benderfyniad cyflym i gael ei wneud yn hyn o beth. Mae Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet wedi ceisio rhoi'r bai ar yr Adran Drafnidiaeth. Mae'n honni bod yr adran ond wedi rhoi gwybod iddo am y materion newydd o ran rhagamcanu maint y traffig, dridiau cyn eu cyflwyno. Mae'r adran yn gwadu hyn ac yn dweud ei bod wedi rhybuddio swyddogion Cymru o'r newid hwn yn gynharach eleni. A wnaiff Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet gytuno i gyhoeddi'r holl ohebiaeth rhwng ei swyddogion a'r Adran Drafnidiaeth i egluro'r mater hwn? Cyflwynwyd newidiadau i'r system rhagolygu traffig yn ystod yr haf. Felly pam mae Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet wedi cymryd cymaint o amser i gyhoeddi'r oedi cyn dechrau'r ymchwiliad cyhoeddus? Dwyrain De Cymru, y Cynulliad hwn, digwyddiadau chwaraeon a busnesau: mae cannoedd o filoedd, nid degau o filoedd, o bobl yn teithio ar yr M4, Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet. Mae angen cwblhau'r gwaith ar yr M4 cyn gynted â phosibl - nid yw 2021 yn ddigon da yma. Bydd annibynadwyedd y rhan hon o'r ffordd yn gynyddol yn cynhyrchu costau ychwanegol ac yn golygu ansicrwydd i fusnesau, yn niweidio twristiaeth ac yn achosi rhwystredigaeth i fodurwyr. Unwaith eto, mae Llywodraeth Lafur Cymru wedi siomi'r cyhoedd yng Nghymru. Diolch.