English: It's certainly the case, isn't it, during the pandemic, that many people have come to have a fresh appreciation and understanding of the value of physical activity and sport? Yes, for physical health, but, as people have said, also for mental health, for just quality of life and enjoyment, and I've had very many e-mails from constituents particularly concerned about their children. Their children's activities outside school in terms of physical activity and sport are very important to them as families, very important to the growing experience that these young people have, and, yes, they do instil good habits for life when they get involved in football, tennis, cricket, gymnastics, dance or whatever it might be. So, it's very valuable indeed to keep good health and enjoyable pastimes throughout lifetimes. Locally for me, there are so many grass-roots clubs in football, in rugby, in cricket, who run activities for the whole range of ages, from young tots right through to older people, and it's very valuable to all of them. Newport Cricket Club is a very good example where they have some really good girls' teams and a women's team that's been very successful. They've built their activities and their facilities over a period of time and, of course, it's really difficult for them now to have a hiatus and, in some respects, to even have a reversal of the progress that they've made over very many years. I had, for example, in terms of athletics and young people, an e-mail from Wendy in respect of her daughter Anya Brady, who is a very talented junior middle-distance runner, and Anya absolutely loves to run at the Spytty stadium where the Newport Harriers Athletic Club operates. She loves the social side of it, meeting her friends, she loves the track, the floodlights and the facilities there, and, to her, it's very, very important indeed. What her mother said in an e-mail to me was that these are fit children who regularly exercise, they need to carry on exercising for their physical well-being, but also their mental well-being in these difficult times. That reflects many e-mails and telephone calls that I've had from constituents since the spring of last year. I've been very, very impressed at the way many of these grass-roots clubs have taken great steps to make sure that they operate safely. They really have taken the guidance very seriously indeed and put their houses in order, as it were, and that's even more the case, I guess, for the more professional operations such as Newport Live. Newport Live is the leisure trust in Newport and they have some wonderful facilities, some of which they've made available for long-COVID rehabilitation, that being the Geraint Thomas velodrome, where in conjunction with the health board, they've provided their facilities to enable people struggling with long COVID to accelerate their rehabilitation process. That's a great example, I think, of what we need to see more of: very close collaboration between our health sector and our sport and physical activity operators. Their facilities and classes have been so important to so many people through COVID-19. We know that 60 per cent of adults and two thirds of young people say that their mental health has suffered during the pandemic. We know that sport and physical activity have played a very valuable part in lessening depression and anxiety. So, I think one of the lessons - you know, we talk so often of building back better - one of the examples that we really need to draw from our experience during COVID-19 is the importance of sport and physical activity to physical and mental health. We need much closer collaboration and integration between our policies and strategies for health and for sports and recreation, and I think we've got an example of that locally in Newport between Newport Live and the health sector, not just around COVID-19, but far predating that, where I've been involved in many meetings to try and ensure closer working, better integration. So, what I'd like to say in conclusion, Deputy Presiding Officer, is that I do think that when there is some leeway to relax the restrictions that we currently have, those sport and activity classes for our young people should be towards the head of that queue, and just behind that should be a much more general opening up of sport and leisure for all ages. I hope very much that the Welsh Government will give that plea and that call very serious consideration.
Welsh: Mae'n sicr yn wir, onid yw, yn ystod y pandemig, fod llawer o bobl wedi dod i sylweddoli a deall o'r newydd beth yw gwerth gweithgarwch corfforol a chwaraeon? Ie, ar gyfer iechyd corfforol, ond, fel mae pobl wedi dweud, ar gyfer iechyd meddwl hefyd, ar gyfer ansawdd bywyd a mwynhad, ac rwyf wedi cael llawer iawn o negeseuon e-bost gan etholwyr sy'n arbennig o bryderus am eu plant. Mae gweithgareddau eu plant y tu allan i'r ysgol mewn perthynas â gweithgarwch corfforol a chwaraeon yn bwysig iawn iddynt fel teuluoedd, yn bwysig iawn i brofiad y bobl ifanc hyn, ac maent yn meithrin arferion da am oes pan fyddant yn cymryd rhan mewn pêl-droed, tenis, criced, gymnasteg, dawns neu beth bynnag y bo. Felly, mae cynnal iechyd da a diddordebau pleserus drwy gydol eich oes yn werthfawr iawn. Yn lleol i mi, mae cymaint o glybiau pêl-droed, rygbi, criced llawr gwlad i'w cael, sy'n cynnal gweithgareddau ar gyfer yr holl ystod o oedrannau, o'r plant ieuengaf hyd at bobl hŷn, ac mae'n werthfawr iawn i bob un ohonynt. Mae Clwb Criced Casnewydd yn enghraifft dda iawn lle mae ganddynt dimau merched hynod o dda a thîm menywod sydd wedi bod yn llwyddiannus iawn. Maent wedi adeiladu eu gweithgareddau a'u cyfleusterau dros gyfnod o amser ac wrth gwrs, mae'n anodd iawn iddynt orfod torri ar draws hynny nawr ac mewn rhai ffyrdd, i hyd yn oed weld y cynnydd a wnaethant dros flynyddoedd lawer yn cael ei wrthdroi. Er enghraifft, ar athletau a phobl ifanc, cefais e-bost gan Wendy mewn perthynas â'i merch Anya Brady, sy'n rhedwr pellter canol iau talentog iawn, ac mae Anya wrth ei bodd yn rhedeg yn stadiwm Spytty lle mae Clwb Athletau Harriers Casnewydd yn gweithredu. Mae hi wrth ei bodd â'r ochr gymdeithasol, a chyfarfod â'i ffrindiau, mae hi wrth ei bodd â'r trac, y llifoleuadau a'r cyfleusterau yno, ac iddi hi, mae'n hynod o bwysig. Dywedodd ei mam mewn e-bost ataf fod y rhain yn blant ffit sy'n ymarfer corff yn rheolaidd, mae angen iddynt barhau i ymarfer corff er eu lles corfforol, ond hefyd er mwyn eu lles meddyliol yn y cyfnod anodd hwn. Mae hynny'n adlewyrchu llawer o negeseuon e-bost a galwadau ffôn a gefais gan etholwyr ers y gwanwyn diwethaf. Mae'r ffordd y mae llawer o'r clybiau llawr gwlad hyn wedi rhoi mesurau gwych ar waith i sicrhau eu bod yn gweithredu'n ddiogel wedi creu argraff fawr arnaf. Maent wedi bod yn gyfan gwbl o ddifrif ynglŷn â'r canllawiau ac wedi rhoi pethau mewn trefn, fel petai, ac mae hynny hyd yn oed yn fwy gwir, rwy'n credu, mewn gweithgareddau mwy proffesiynol fel Casnewydd Fyw. Casnewydd Fyw yw'r ymddiriedolaeth hamdden yng Nghasnewydd ac mae ganddynt gyfleusterau gwych, a rhai ohonynt wedi'u darparu ganddynt ar gyfer adsefydlu COVID hir, sef felodrom Geraint Thomas, lle maent, ar y cyd â'r bwrdd iechyd, wedi darparu eu cyfleusterau er mwyn galluogi pobl sy'n cael trafferth gyda COVID hir i gyflymu eu proses adsefydlu. Mae honno'n enghraifft wych, rwy'n meddwl, o'r hyn y mae angen i ni weld mwy ohono: cydweithio agos iawn rhwng ein sector iechyd a'n gweithredwyr chwaraeon a gweithgarwch corfforol. Mae eu cyfleusterau a'u dosbarthiadau wedi bod mor bwysig i gynifer o bobl drwy COVID-19. Gwyddom fod 60 y cant o oedolion a dwy ran o dair o bobl ifanc yn dweud bod eu hiechyd meddwl wedi dioddef yn ystod y pandemig. Gwyddom fod chwaraeon a gweithgarwch corfforol wedi chwarae rhan werthfawr iawn yn lleihau iselder a phryder. Felly, credaf mai un o'r gwersi - wyddoch chi, rydym yn sôn mor aml am adeiladu nôl yn well - un o'r enghreifftiau y mae gwir angen inni bwyso arni o'n profiad yn ystod COVID-19 yw pwysigrwydd chwaraeon a gweithgarwch corfforol i iechyd corfforol a meddyliol. Mae angen cydweithio ac integreiddio llawer agosach rhwng ein polisïau a'n strategaethau iechyd, chwaraeon a hamdden, ac rwy'n credu bod gennym enghraifft o hynny'n lleol yng Nghasnewydd rhwng Casnewydd Fyw a'r sector iechyd, nid yn unig mewn perthynas â COVID-19, ond yn mynd yn ôl yn llawer pellach na hynny, lle rwyf wedi bod yn rhan o lawer o gyfarfodydd i geisio sicrhau cydweithio agosach, gwell integreiddio. Felly, hoffwn ddweud i gloi, Ddirprwy Lywydd, fy mod yn credu, pan fydd rhywfaint o ryddid i lacio'r cyfyngiadau sydd gennym ar hyn o bryd, mai'r dosbarthiadau chwaraeon a gweithgareddau hynny i'n pobl ifanc ddylai fod tuag at flaen y ciw, ac yn dynn wrth eu sodlau, dylem weld chwaraeon a hamdden i bob oedran yn agor yn llawer mwy cyffredinol. Rwy'n gobeithio'n fawr y bydd Llywodraeth Cymru yn rhoi ystyriaeth ddifrifol iawn i'r apêl a'r alwad honno.