English: Thank you for that series of remarks and questions. I completely agree with you that the vast majority of landlords and tenants in Wales are perfectly reasonable people having a perfectly reasonable life in a perfectly good arrangement, one with the other. And you mentioned part of my own constituency, where you're absolutely right - we have very few problems that I'm aware of with the private rented sector, in good-quality housing, with decent people living in it. This Bill is around sorting out the provisions for both rogue landlords and rogue tenants. And as I've emphasised, if your tenant is badly behaved, then this Bill does nothing to take away your right to evict a tenant who hasn't paid their rent, or is indulging in anti-social behaviour, or is damaging the property, or a large number of other things. Those routes to possession are still there. In terms of how you characterise a no-fault eviction, the point is all of those things - if you want the house back because you want to sell it, or you want the house back because you want to live in it, that is a no-fault eviction, because the tenant won't have done anything wrong. The fact that you're proving a ground doesn't take away from the fact the tenant won't have done anything wrong and is being evicted through no fault of their own. So, it's just not possible to have no circumstance in which a tenant that's perfectly well behaved themselves cannot be evicted, because, actually, the landlord, in circumstances where they might be homeless, for example, would have the right to possession of their own property, and I don't think any of us would really see that as a problem. And the problem is this business about getting the balance right between the two issues. The vast majority of landlords in Wales have one house. Of course, we have many landlords that have more than one house, but the vast majority of them only have one house. And so we need to make sure that the private rented sector is fit for purpose, both for those who want to rent that house out - we very much want them to rent their houses out and to get a reasonable rate of return, and to afford good-quality accommodation who want to rent - but also, should they find themselves in circumstances where they need that house, or their circumstances change and they need the money from a house, they can do that, and it doesn't put them off putting the house on the market, and we just have another empty home on our street, which does nobody any favours either. So, this is all about the balance about how we do that. And rather than have complex legal circumstances in which you have to prove a certain set of circumstances, which we know are causing real problems in other jurisdictions with what the level of proof is and what you have to do, we think this is a better compromise. The six months is around the way that the 2016 Act works, so that it gives somebody a full 12 months from the start of their contract to the end. So, actually, you'll get a full 12 months. The six months then only kicks in once you're over that 12 months. So, if you're already there for two years, for example, you then have six additional months. So, it's all around how the new standard contracts in the 2016 Act actually function.
Welsh: Diolch i chi am y gyfres yna o sylwadau a chwestiynau. Rwy'n cytuno'n llwyr â chi fod y mwyafrif helaeth o landlordiaid a thenantiaid yng Nghymru yn bobl berffaith resymol sy'n cael bywyd perffaith resymol mewn trefniant perffaith dda, y naill gyda'r llall. Ac roeddech chi'n sôn am ran o'm hetholaeth i fy hun, ac rydych chi yn llygad eich lle - ychydig iawn o broblemau sydd gennym yr wyf i'n ymwybodol ohonyn nhw gyda'r sector rhentu preifat, mewn tai o ansawdd da, gyda phobl ddymunol yn byw ynddo. Mae'r Bil hwn yn ymwneud â threfnu'r darpariaethau ar gyfer landlordiaid diegwyddor a thenantiaid twyllodrus. Ac fel rwyf i wedi pwysleisio, os yw eich tenant chi'n camymddwyn, yna nid yw'r Bil hwn yn gwneud dim i ddileu eich hawl chi i droi allan tenant sydd heb dalu ei rent, neu sy'n ymhél ag ymddygiad gwrthgymdeithasol, neu sy'n difrodi'r eiddo, neu nifer fawr o bethau eraill. Mae'r llwybrau hynny at adfeddiannu yn bodoli o hyd. O ran y ffordd yr ydych chi'n disgrifio troi allan heb fai, y pwynt yw'r holl bethau hynny - os ydych chi eisiau cael y tŷ yn ôl oherwydd eich bod chi am ei werthu, neu os ydych chi eisiau cael y tŷ yn ôl oherwydd eich bod chi am fyw ynddo, troi allan heb fai yw hynny, oherwydd ni fydd y tenant wedi gwneud unrhyw beth o'i le. Nid yw'r ffaith eich bod chi'n profi eich achos yn tynnu oddi wrth y ffaith na wnaeth y tenant ddim byd o'i le a'i fod yn cael ei droi allan heb fod yna unrhyw fai arno ef. Felly, nid yw'n bosibl i fod heb unrhyw amgylchiad lle nad yw tenant sydd ei hun yn ymddwyn yn berffaith gywir yn gallu cael ei droi allan, oherwydd, mewn gwirionedd, fe fyddai gan y landlord, mewn amgylchiadau lle gallai fod yn ddigartref, er enghraifft, yr hawl i feddiannu ei eiddo ei hun, ac nid wyf i'n credu y byddai unrhyw un ohonom ni'n wir yn gweld honno'n broblem. A'r broblem yw'r busnes hwn ynglŷn â chadw'r cydbwysedd cywir rhwng y ddau fater. Un tŷ sydd gan y mwyafrif helaeth o landlordiaid yng Nghymru. Wrth gwrs, mae gennym ni lawer o landlordiaid sydd â mwy nag un tŷ, ond un tŷ'n unig sydd gan y mwyafrif helaeth ohonyn nhw. Ac felly mae angen inni wneud yn siŵr bod y sector rhentu preifat yn addas i'r diben, ar gyfer y rhai sy'n dymuno rhentu'r tŷ hwnnw - rydym ni'n awyddus iawn iddyn nhw allu rhoi eu tai ar rent a chael cyfradd resymol o enillion, a gallu fforddio llety o ansawdd da i'r rhai sydd am rentu - ond hefyd, os byddan nhw'n eu cael eu hunain mewn amgylchiadau lle mae angen y tŷ hwnnw arnyn nhw, neu os bydd eu hamgylchiadau nhw'n newid a bod angen arian am y tŷ arnyn nhw, fe allan nhw wneud hynny, ac nid yw'n eu rhwystro rhag rhoi'r tŷ ar y farchnad, a bod gennym ni gartref gwag arall ar un o'n strydoedd ni, nad oes neb yn ei ddymuno ychwaith. Felly, mae hyn i gyd yn ymwneud â'r cydbwysedd o ran sut y cawn ni hynny. Ac yn hytrach na chael amgylchiadau cyfreithiol cymhleth lle mae'n rhaid ichi brofi cyfres benodol o amgylchiadau, y gwyddom eu bod nhw'n achosi problemau gwirioneddol mewn awdurdodaethau eraill o ran lefel y prawf a'r hyn y mae'n rhaid ichi ei wneud, rydym ni o'r farn fod hwn yn gyfaddawd gwell. Mae'r chwe mis yn ymwneud â'r ffordd y mae Deddf 2016 yn gweithio, fel ei bod yn rhoi 12 mis llawn i rywun o ddechrau ei gontract hyd ddiwedd y contract. Felly, mewn gwirionedd, fe gewch chi 12 mis ar eu hyd. Pan ewch chi dros y 12 mis, dyna pryd fydd y chwe mis yn dechrau. Felly, os ydych chi yno ers dwy flynedd yn barod, er enghraifft, fe fydd gennych chi chwe mis ychwanegol. Felly, mae'r cyfan yn ymwneud â sut mae'r contractau safonol newydd yn Neddf 2016 yn gweithredu mewn gwirionedd.