English: Diolch, Presiding Officer. Can I thank Plaid Cymru for bringing forward this debate today? A quite proper use of debating time in the Chamber this afternoon. A strike will have devastating consequences for patients, and we know six of the seven health boards have voted in favour of strike action. I think that just shows how desperate nurses are for the Welsh Government to listen to them. I'll say to the Minister: Minister, you must do everything in your power to avert a nursing strike as well as stemming the workforce pressures. To speak to the amendments today, we'll be supporting Plaid's motion fully today. I'm very disappointed at the Government's deleting point 2 of the Plaid motion. We've added an amendment of our own, which calls on the Welsh Government to meet with the Royal College of Nursing Wales to discuss its campaign for fair pay and safe staffing to avoid strike action this winter. To be really clear on this, the Minister has not met with the RCN to discuss their campaign for fair pay, and has only just responded to the request that they made last month. As Rhun ap Iorwerth has pointed out, the Minister still has no plans to meet with the RCN, and what frustrates me is that the Minister seeks to deflect, when this question is put to her, and then responds to a different point. Yes, you may be meeting the RCN to discuss other matters, and you may be meeting with unions, but you have not met with the RCN to discuss their fair pay campaign. And that is our amendment to the motion this afternoon, Minister. I hope you will confirm that you will be meeting with the RCN and supporting our amendment today. Now, as Rhun ap Iorwerth has pointed out, it's not just about pay, of course, as well. Other areas need to be examined - key conditions, such as mental health support, retention, upskilling and tackling the mammoth staffing gaps in the NHS. They've got to be tackled urgently as well, so that the NHS workforce is fully supported. And whilst I'm on that point, I note Rhun did ask you to guarantee, in his opening comments, but I would reiterate that myself, Minister: can you give that guarantee that the nurses' tuition fee bursary will be safeguarded into the future in your remarks this afternoon? Minister, you responded to one of my colleagues last week in the Chamber that you were fed up; you were fed up of some of the questions being put to you. [ Interruption.] You did say that, Minister; you did say you were fed up of some of the questions being put to you. Well, can I say that I'm fed up, I'm frustrated, when Ministers don't take responsibility for what is in their power here? So, the Welsh Government has been responsible for the Welsh NHS for 20 years, and you, Minister - [ Interruption.] I'll come on to that now, don't worry, Deputy Minister. But the Welsh Government is also responsible for nurses' pay and conditions as well. So, I'm fed up when you point your finger - it's health boards' responsibility, it's Westminster's responsibility, you want more money - all the time deflecting away from the responsibility here. The autumn statement has just been announced. The Welsh Government will receive an additional £1.2 billion in consequentials. You, Minister, can cut your cloth as you choose to do here. I could name a whole raft of areas where I believe the Welsh Government has spent money inappropriately, or wasted money. So, you have the responsibility here to cut your own cloth. I could talk about the different views in this Chamber about the £100 million that's about to be spent on 30 new Senedd Members. That's a debate for another day, but that's equivalent to 4,000 newly-qualified nurses. That debate will happen again, I'm sure. But the point is that these are decisions made here by you, Minister. I and my colleagues are wholeheartedly supporting our NHS nurses, and we think that they should be supported in the profession that they love. And it is disappointing that the Welsh Government has still failed to produce a retention plan for nursing over two years on from the NHS workforce plan in 2022. We face another winter of severe pressures on the NHS, and the Welsh Government should be doing everything in its hands and in its toolbox to avert strike action and avert pressure being put on the NHS across Wales. Minister, I would call on you this afternoon and call on the Welsh Government to meet with the Royal College of Nursing to discuss its campaign for fair pay and safe staffing to avoid a winter of industrial action in the coming months ahead. Diolch yn fawr.
Welsh: Diolch, Lywydd. A gaf fi ddiolch i Blaid Cymru am gyflwyno'r ddadl hon heddiw? Defnydd cwbl briodol o amser trafod yn y Siambr y prynhawn yma. Bydd streic yn arwain at ganlyniadau dinistriol i gleifion, ac rydym yn gwybod bod chwech o'r saith bwrdd iechyd wedi pleidleisio o blaid streicio. Rwy'n credu bod hynny'n dangos cymaint y mae nyrsys eisiau i Lywodraeth Cymru wrando arnynt. Rwyf am ddweud wrth y Gweinidog: rhaid ichi wneud popeth yn eich gallu i osgoi streic nyrsio yn ogystal ag atal pwysau ar y gweithlu. Os caf siarad am y gwelliannau heddiw, byddwn yn cefnogi cynnig Plaid Cymru'n llawn. Rwy'n siomedig iawn fod y Llywodraeth wedi dileu pwynt 2 o gynnig Plaid Cymru. Rydym wedi ychwanegu gwelliant ein hunain, sy'n galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru i gyfarfod â Choleg Nyrsio Brenhinol Cymru i drafod eu hymgyrch dros gyflog teg a staffio diogel i osgoi streicio y gaeaf hwn. I fod yn glir iawn ar hyn, nid yw'r Gweinidog wedi cyfarfod â'r Coleg Nyrsio Brenhinol i drafod eu hymgyrch dros gyflog teg, ac nid ydynt ond newydd ymateb i'r cais a wnaethant y mis diwethaf. Fel y mae Rhun ap Iorwerth wedi nodi, nid oes gan y Gweinidog gynlluniau o hyd i gyfarfod â'r Coleg Nyrsio Brenhinol, a'r hyn sy'n fy ngwneud yn rhwystredig yw bod y Gweinidog yn ceisio osgoi pan ofynnir y cwestiwn hwn iddi, ac yna'n ymateb i bwynt gwahanol. Efallai eich bod yn cyfarfod â'r Coleg Nyrsio Brenhinol i drafod materion eraill, ac efallai eich bod yn cyfarfod ag undebau, ond nid ydych wedi cyfarfod â'r Coleg Nyrsio Brenhinol i drafod eu hymgyrch dros gyflog teg. A dyna ein gwelliant i'r cynnig y prynhawn yma, Weinidog. Gobeithio y gwnewch chi gadarnhau y byddwch yn cyfarfod â'r Coleg Nyrsio Brenhinol ac yn cefnogi ein gwelliant heddiw. Nawr, fel mae Rhun ap Iorwerth wedi nodi, mae'n ymwneud â mwy na chyflog yn unig, wrth gwrs. Mae meysydd eraill i'w harchwilio - amodau allweddol, fel cymorth iechyd meddwl, cadw staff, uwchsgilio a mynd i'r afael â'r bylchau staffio enfawr yn y GIG. Mae'n rhaid mynd i'r afael â hwy ar frys hefyd, fel bod gweithlu'r GIG yn cael cefnogaeth lawn. Ac ar y pwynt hwnnw, rwy'n nodi bod Rhun wedi gofyn i chi warantu, yn ei sylwadau agoriadol, ond hoffwn ailadrodd hynny fy hun, Weinidog: a wnewch chi warantu y bydd bwrsariaeth ffioedd dysgu'r nyrsys yn cael ei diogelu ar gyfer y dyfodol yn eich sylwadau y prynhawn yma? Weinidog, yr wythnos diwethaf yn y Siambr fe wnaethoch ateb un o fy nghyd-Aelodau drwy ddweud eich bod wedi cael llond bol; roeddech chi wedi cael llond bol ar rai o'r cwestiynau a ofynnwyd i chi. [ Torri ar draws.] Fe ddywedoch chi hynny, Weinidog; fe ddywedoch chi eich bod wedi cael llond bol ar rai o'r cwestiynau a gâi eu gofyn i chi. Wel, a gaf fi ddweud fy mod innau wedi cael llond bol, rwy'n teimlo'n rhwystredig pan nad yw Gweinidogion yn cymryd cyfrifoldeb am yr hyn y mae ganddynt rym drosto yma? Felly, mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi bod yn gyfrifol am GIG Cymru ers 20 mlynedd, a chi, Weinidog - [ Torri ar draws.] Fe ddof at hynny nawr, peidiwch â phoeni, Ddirprwy Weinidog. Ond mae Llywodraeth Cymru hefyd yn gyfrifol am gyflog ac amodau nyrsys hefyd. Felly, rwy'n cael llond bol pan fyddwch chi'n pwyntio eich bys - mae'n gyfrifoldeb i fyrddau iechyd, mae'n gyfrifoldeb i San Steffan, rydych chi eisiau mwy o arian - gan osgoi'r cyfrifoldeb yma drwy'r amser. Mae datganiad yr hydref newydd gael ei gyhoeddi. Bydd Llywodraeth Cymru'n cael £1.2 biliwn ychwanegol o arian canlyniadol. Gallwch chi, Weinidog, dorri'r brethyn fel y dewiswch chi ei wneud yma. Gallwn enwi toreth o feysydd lle credaf fod Llywodraeth Cymru wedi gwario arian yn amhriodol, neu wastraffu arian. Felly, mae cyfrifoldeb arnoch chi yma i dorri eich brethyn eich hun. Gallwn sôn am y gwahanol safbwyntiau yn y Siambr hon am y £100 miliwn sydd ar fin cael ei wario ar 30 o Aelodau newydd o'r Senedd. Mae honno'n ddadl ar gyfer diwrnod arall, ond mae hynny'n cyfateb i 4,000 o nyrsys newydd gymhwyso. Bydd y ddadl honno'n digwydd eto, rwy'n siŵr. Ond y pwynt yw mai penderfyniadau a wneir yma gennych chi yw'r rhain, Weinidog. Rwyf fi a fy nghyd-Aelodau'n cefnogi ein nyrsys GIG yn llwyr, a chredwn y dylent gael eu cefnogi yn y proffesiwn y maent yn ei garu. Ac mae'n siomedig fod Llywodraeth Cymru'n dal i fethu llunio cynllun cadw staff nyrsio dros ddwy flynedd ar ôl cyhoeddi cynllun gweithlu'r GIG yn 2022. Rydym yn wynebu gaeaf arall o bwysau difrifol ar y GIG, a dylai Llywodraeth Cymru wneud popeth yn ei gallu i osgoi streic ac osgoi rhoi pwysau ar y GIG ar draws Cymru. Weinidog, rwy'n galw arnoch y prynhawn yma ac yn galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru i gyfarfod â'r Coleg Nyrsio Brenhinol i drafod eu hymgyrch dros gyflog teg a staffio diogel er mwyn osgoi gaeaf o weithredu diwydiannol yn ystod y misoedd nesaf. Diolch yn fawr.