English: Thank you for today's statement, Minister. I'm sure there's consensus in the Chamber that social care is one of the biggest issues and the growing challenges of our time and we need to better link up and have collaboration between health and social care to meet these challenges, and the question is, really, how we best do that in practice. Minister, you mentioned in your statement the responsibility of regions to establish these pooled budgets for the provision of care home accommodation for adults by April 2018, and I'm grateful for your previous responses on this. I just wonder whether you could add how this will work in practice and where we are in terms of making sure it does work effectively in practice. You also highlight the importance of collaboration; are you able to expand on this and do you agree that collaboration in terms of pooled budgets and the integration agenda should include effective cross-party working? And the final point I want to make is: what consideration has been, or could be, given to how existing community assets could be better used or given a new purpose and use in an innovative and collaborative way to meet both the social care and health needs of the community - in particular in terms of looking at that kind of medical respite care gap for the elderly, the most vulnerable and frail, working hand in hand alongside social care? Is there also consideration of the role that, perhaps, the third sector could play in terms of maintaining and sustaining facilities to make sure that is better able to happen?
Welsh: Diolch ichi am eich datganiad heddiw, Gweinidog. Rwy'n siŵr bod unfrydedd barn yn y Siambr bod gofal cymdeithasol yn un o'r materion mwyaf ac yn un o heriau mwyaf cynyddol ein hoes ni, ac mae angen inni gael gwell cyswllt a chydweithredu rhwng iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol i ateb yr heriau hyn, a'r cwestiwn yw, mewn gwirionedd, sut orau ydym ni am wneud hynny'n ymarferol. Gweinidog, soniasoch yn eich datganiad mai cyfrifoldeb rhanbarthau fydd sefydlu'r cyllidebau cyfun hyn ar gyfer darparu lleoedd mewn cartrefi gofal i oedolion erbyn mis Ebrill 2018, ac rwy'n ddiolchgar am eich ymatebion blaenorol ynglŷn â hyn. Dim ond meddwl yr wyf i, tybed a allwch chi ymhelaethu ynghylch sut y bydd hyn yn gweithio'n ymarferol a lle yr ydym ni arni o ran sicrhau bod hynny'n gweithio'n effeithiol yn ymarferol. Rydych chi hefyd yn pwysleisio pwysigrwydd cydweithio; a allwch chi ymhelaethu ar hyn ac a ydych chi'n cytuno y dylai cydweithio o ran cyllidebau cyfun a'r agenda integreiddio gynnwys gweithio trawsbleidiol effeithiol? A'r sylw olaf yr hoffwn ei wneud yw: pa ystyriaeth a roddwyd, neu y gellid ei roi, i'r modd y gellid defnyddio asedau cymunedol presennol yn well neu roi diben newydd iddynt a'u defnyddio mewn modd arloesol a chydweithredol er mwyn diwallu anghenion gofal cymdeithasol ac iechyd y gymuned - yn enwedig o ran edrych ar y diffyg darpariaeth o ran gofal seibiant meddygol ar gyfer yr henoed, y rhai mwyaf agored i niwed a bregus, gan weithio law yn llaw â gofal cymdeithasol? A oes ystyriaeth hefyd i'r swyddogaeth y gallai'r trydydd sector ei chwarae, o bosib, o ran cynnal cyfleusterau er mwyn sicrhau bod hynny'n gallu digwydd yn well?