English: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I refer Members to my declaration of interest form in terms of property ownership. I rise once again to contribute to another debate that references and tries to do down the private rental sector. Now, let me say from the start and without any doubt that it is a matter of fact that private landlords are a very large, significant contributor to providing good quality and safe homes across Wales. The majority of these landlords are signed up with Rent Smart Wales, and they take their role as home owners and landlords very seriously and professionally. Speak to any one of them and they will tell you, 'All we want is to find a good tenant who will look after my asset - the property - and pay their rent so that it does make it worth while.' Now, this debate today I believe is coming as a consequence of continued failure of the Welsh Labour Government since the start of devolution, and you in Plaid Cymru are not free from this; you have been in Government here in the last 23 years. House building has collapsed over the past 23 years - the number of dwellings completed between 2021-22 9.3 per cent lower than before the pandemic. You're not even halfway yet to achieving the target of 12,000 new homes a year. The Welsh Labour Government has also failed to build social housing in Wales, and it's a fact that because of what you're calling for now there's nervousness growing in the registered landlord agencies. Only around 9,000 housing association and local authority homes were built between 2010 and 2019. Your failure so far has resulted in 67,000 households stuck on housing waiting lists in Wales. So, don't say people are going to become homeless - it's already happening. Temporary accommodation spend has rocketed from £5 million in Wales in 2018-19 to over £20 million in 2021; 25,200 people placed in temporary accommodation. Let me tell you, these are not nice, cosy little homes - these are rooms in golf clubs, bed and breakfasts and hotels. Whole hotels have been taken over in Llandudno, in a tourist destination, to provide a roof over the heads of our vulnerable families. The private rental sector market is voting with its feet. These valuable home providers are leaving the market. In the National Residential Landlords Association's latest landlord confidence index, landlords in Wales have the lowest levels of confidence when compared to landlords in all English regions. NRLA's member survey data shows that 26 per cent of landlords in Wales have sold over the last 12 months; 49 per cent are planning to sell a property in the next 12 months. Landlord repossessions have been steadily increasing in Wales in the past year, up to 150 in the second quarter of 2022, compared to only 78 at the end of 2021. So out of touch are Plaid Cymru - [ Interruption.] - yes - and Welsh Labour, that you have thought it reasonable - and you keep echoing it, and it's a shame, shame on you - you think it's reasonable to introduce further burdens through the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016. Plaid Cymru calling for freezing rents and contemplating a moratorium on evictions, even when there are serious rent arrears - why would any landlord stay, giving an asset over to someone to live in, and then have serious -
Welsh: Diolch, Ddirprwy Lywydd. Rwy'n cyfeirio'r Aelodau at fy ffurflen datganiad o fuddiant ar berchnogaeth eiddo. Rwy'n sefyll eto i gyfrannu at ddadl arall sy'n cyfeirio ac yn ceisio lladd ar y sector rhentu preifat. Nawr, gadewch imi ddweud o'r dechrau a heb unrhyw amheuaeth ei bod yn ffaith bod landlordiaid preifat yn cyfrannu'n helaeth ac yn sylweddol iawn at ddarparu cartrefi o ansawdd da a diogel ar draws Cymru. Mae'r mwyafrif o'r landlordiaid hyn wedi cofrestru gyda Rhentu Doeth Cymru, ac maent o ddifrif ac yn broffesiynol ynglŷn â'u rôl fel perchnogion cartrefi a landlordiaid. Siaradwch ag unrhyw un ohonynt ac fe fyddant yn dweud wrthych, 'Y cyfan a ddymunwn yw dod o hyd i denant da a fydd yn gofalu am fy ased - yr eiddo - a thalu eu rhent fel ei fod yn ei wneud yn werth yr ymdrech.' Nawr, rwy'n credu bod y ddadl hon heddiw yn ganlyniad i fethiant parhaus Llywodraeth Lafur Cymru ers dechrau datganoli, ac nid ydych chi ym Mhlaid Cymru yn ddi-fai; rydych wedi bod yn y Llywodraeth yma yn y 23 mlynedd diwethaf. Gwelwyd adeiladu tai'n chwalu dros y 23 mlynedd diwethaf - mae nifer yr anheddau a gwblhawyd rhwng 2021-22 9.3 y cant yn is na chyn y pandemig. Nid ydych chi hanner ffordd eto hyd yn oed at gyrraedd y targed o 12,000 o gartrefi newydd y flwyddyn. Mae Llywodraeth Lafur Cymru hefyd wedi methu adeiladu tai cymdeithasol yng Nghymru, ac oherwydd yr hyn y galwch amdano yn awr mae'n ffaith bod nerfusrwydd ar gynnydd ymhlith yr asiantaethau landlordiaid cofrestredig. Dim ond tua 9,000 o gartrefi cymdeithasau tai ac awdurdodau lleol a gafodd eu hadeiladu rhwng 2010 a 2019. Hyd yma, mae eich methiant wedi arwain at 67,000 o aelwydydd ar restrau aros am dai yng Nghymru. Felly, peidiwch â dweud bod pobl yn mynd i fod yn ddigartref - mae eisoes yn digwydd. Mae gwariant ar lety dros dro wedi cynyddu o £5 miliwn yng Nghymru yn 2018-19 i fwy na £20 miliwn yn 2021; cafodd 25,200 o bobl eu gosod mewn llety dros dro. Gadewch i mi ddweud wrthych, nid cartrefi bach braf, clyd yw'r rhain - maent yn ystafelloedd mewn clybiau golff, gwely a brecwast a gwestai. Mae gwestai cyfan yn Llandudno, cyrchfan i dwristiaid, yn darparu to uwch eu pennau i'n teuluoedd bregus. Mae'r farchnad sector rhentu preifat yn pleidleisio gyda'i thraed. Mae'r darparwyr cartrefi gwerthfawr hyn yn gadael y farchnad. Ym mynegai hyder landlordiaid diweddaraf y Gymdeithas Genedlaethol Landlordiaid Preswyl, landlordiaid yng Nghymru sydd â'r lefelau hyder isaf o gymharu â landlordiaid ym mhob un o ranbarthau Lloegr. Mae data arolwg o aelodau'r gymdeithas yn dangos bod 26 y cant o landlordiaid yng Nghymru wedi gwerthu dros y 12 mis diwethaf; mae 49 y cant yn bwriadu gwerthu eiddo yn y 12 mis nesaf. Mae adfeddiannu gan landlordiaid wedi bod yn cynyddu'n gyson yng Nghymru yn ystod y flwyddyn ddiwethaf, hyd at 150 yn ail chwarter 2022, o gymharu â dim ond 78 ar ddiwedd 2021. Mae Plaid Cymru gymaint allan o gysylltiad - [ Torri ar draws.] - ydy - a Llafur Cymru, nes eich bod wedi meddwl ei bod hi'n rhesymol - ac rydych yn dal i'w leisio, a chywilydd arnoch - rydych chi'n meddwl ei bod hi'n rhesymol cyflwyno beichiau pellach drwy Ddeddf Rhentu Cartrefi (Cymru) 2016. Mae Plaid Cymru'n galw am rewi rhenti ac ystyried moratoriwm ar droi allan, hyd yn oed pan geir ôl-ddyledion rhent difrifol - pam y byddai unrhyw landlord yn aros, yn trosglwyddo ased i rywun fyw ynddo, ac yna'n cael -