English: Diolch, Llywydd. We reported on this Bill on 12 November and made three recommendations. Before discussing those recommendations, I just wish to highlight one broad point. As with our scrutiny of all Bills, the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee considered matters relating to the legislative competence of the Assembly, and this includes compliance with human rights legislation. We have consistently maintained that the Welsh Government should ensure that information relating to legislative competence, which is set out in explanatory memoranda, contains sufficient details to ensure transparency and to enable effective scrutiny of Bills. In this report, we have taken the opportunity to reiterate the conclusion we made most recently in our report on the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill, namely that full explanations of assessments undertaken in relation to human rights are available in explanatory memoranda that accompany Bills laid before this National Assembly. As has as already been noted, this Bill has been subject to a curtailed Stage 1 process in the Assembly. Our first recommendation related to this point. The Welsh Government announced the background policy decision for this Bill in May 2018, and the regulations for a future liability scheme were brought forward in March of this year. Therefore, it was not clear to us why the Bill was not brought forward earlier. This would have allowed for more Stage 1 scrutiny and for engagement between stakeholders and committees. For that reason, we ask the Minister to use this debate to clarify the timescales that led to the introduction of the Bill, including confirming the point at which the Minister was aware that primary legislation would be needed. And I note the Minister's comments earlier in clarification on this particular point. Moving on to our second recommendation, within the context of the short period of Stage 1 scrutiny, we noted the broad power provided to the Welsh Ministers by section 1 (8) of the Bill, which inserted a new subsection (10) into the NHS (Wales) Act 2006. The Minister at the time suggested to us that this provision would help facilitate the prevention of accidental or mistaken impact on the existing powers of Welsh Ministers, and we ask the Minister to use this debate to clarify the rationale behind the power being sought in section 1 (8). And I note again the Minister's comments earlier on on this particular matter. And then, finally, with regard to the balance between the detail on the face of the Bill and what is left to subordinate legislation, we noted that the Bill provided three powers to the Welsh Ministers to make subordinate legislation. We acknowledge the Minister's explanation regarding the choice to bring forward regulations made under section 1 (8) of the Bill using the negative procedure. However, in our view, it is questionable whether it's fair and appropriate to compare the making of regulations that will be bring forward an existing liability scheme to those which brought forward the future liabilities scheme earlier this year. Our concerns are based on the fact that this Bill, which provides the primary legislative footing for the regulations, has not been afforded the full opportunity for Stage 1 scrutiny, and nor is it clear at this point who and what will be covered by subsequent regulations. For that reason, our third recommendation was the Bill should be amended so that the affirmative procedure would be applied to the first regulations made under section 1 (8) of the Bill, followed by the negative procedure on subsequent occasions. Again, I've noted the comments that the Minister has made on this particular point. Thank you, Llywydd.
Welsh: Diolch, Llywydd. Cyflwynwyd adroddiad ar y Bil hwn ar 12 Tachwedd a gwnaed tri argymhelliad. Cyn trafod yr argymhellion hynny, hoffwn dynnu sylw at un pwynt cyffredinol. Yn yr un modd â chyda'n gwaith craffu ar yr holl Filiau, bu'r Pwyllgor Materion Cyfansoddiadol a Deddfwriaethol yn ystyried materion sy'n ymwneud â chymhwysedd deddfwriaethol y Cynulliad, ac mae hyn yn cynnwys cydymffurfio â deddfwriaeth hawliau dynol. Rydym ni wedi dweud yn gyson y dylai Llywodraeth Cymru sicrhau bod gwybodaeth sy'n ymwneud â chymhwysedd deddfwriaethol, a nodir mewn memoranda esboniadol, yn cynnwys digon o fanylion i sicrhau tryloywder ac i alluogi craffu effeithiol ar Filiau. Yn yr adroddiad hwn, rydym ni wedi manteisio ar y cyfle i ailadrodd y casgliad a wnaed gennym ni'n ddiweddar yn ein hadroddiad ar y Bil Plant (Diddymu Amddiffyniad Cosb Resymol) (Cymru), sef bod esboniadau llawn o asesiadau a gynhaliwyd mewn cysylltiad â hawliau dynol ar gael mewn memoranda esboniadol sy'n cael eu cynnwys gyda Biliau a gyflwynir gerbron y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol hwn. Fel y nodwyd eisoes, mae'r Bil hwn wedi bod yn destun proses Cyfnod 1 wedi'i chwtogi yn y Cynulliad. Roedd ein hargymhelliad cyntaf yn ymwneud â'r pwynt hwn. Cyhoeddodd Llywodraeth Cymru y penderfyniad polisi cefndirol ar gyfer y Bil hwn ym mis Mai 2018, a chafodd y rheoliadau ar gyfer cynllun rhwymedigaethau'r dyfodol eu dwyn ymlaen ym mis Mawrth eleni. Felly, nid oedd yn glir i ni pam na chafodd y Bil ei gyflwyno'n gynharach. Byddai hyn wedi caniatáu rhagor o waith craffu Cyfnod 1 ac ymgysylltu rhwng rhanddeiliaid a phwyllgorau. Am y rheswm hwnnw, gofynnwn i'r Gweinidog ddefnyddio'r ddadl hon i egluro'r amserlenni a arweiniodd at gyflwyno'r Bil, gan gynnwys cadarnhau ar ba adeg oedd y Gweinidog yn ymwybodol y byddai angen deddfwriaeth sylfaenol. A nodaf sylwadau'r Gweinidog yn gynharach o ran eglurhad ar y pwynt penodol hwn. Gan symud ymlaen at ein hail argymhelliad, yng nghyd-destun cyfnod byr y gwaith craffu yng Nghyfnod 1, nodasom y pŵer eang a roddwyd i Weinidogion Cymru gan adran 1 (8) o'r Bil, a fewnosododd is-adran (10) newydd yn Neddf y GIG (Cymru) 2006. Awgrymodd y Gweinidog ar y pryd y byddai'r ddarpariaeth hon yn helpu i hwyluso'r broses o atal effaith ddamweiniol neu gyfeiliornus ar bwerau presennol Gweinidogion Cymru, a gofynnwn i'r Gweinidog ddefnyddio'r ddadl hon i egluro'r rhesymeg y tu ôl i'r pŵer a geisir yn adran 1 (8). A nodaf unwaith eto sylwadau'r Gweinidog yn gynharach ar y mater penodol hwn. Ac yna, yn olaf, o ran y cydbwysedd rhwng y manylion ar wyneb y Bil a'r hyn sy'n cael ei adael i is-ddeddfwriaeth, nodasom fod y Bil yn darparu tri phŵer i Weinidogion Cymru wneud is-ddeddfwriaeth. Rydym yn cydnabod esboniad y Gweinidog ynglŷn â'r dewis i gyflwyno rheoliadau a wneir o dan adran 1 (8) o'r Bil gan ddefnyddio'r weithdrefn negyddol. Fodd bynnag, yn ein barn ni, mae'n ddadleuol a yw'n deg ac yn briodol cymharu gwneud rheoliadau a fydd yn cyflwyno cynllun rhwymedigaethau presennol â'r rhai a gyflwynodd y cynllun rhwymedigaethau'r dyfodol yn gynharach eleni. Mae ein pryderon yn seiliedig ar y ffaith nad yw'r Bil hwn, sy'n darparu sylfaen ddeddfwriaethol sylfaenol ar gyfer y rheoliadau, wedi cael y cyfle llawn ar gyfer gwaith craffu Cyfnod 1, ac nid yw hi chwaith yn glir ar hyn o bryd pwy a beth fydd yn cael eu cwmpasu gan reoliadau dilynol. Am y rheswm hwnnw, ein trydydd argymhelliad oedd y dylid diwygio'r Bil er mwyn i'r weithdrefn gadarnhaol gael ei defnyddio ar gyfer y rheoliadau cyntaf a wneir o dan adran 1 (8) o'r Bil, ac yna'r weithdrefn negyddol ar achlysuron dilynol. Unwaith eto, rwyf wedi nodi'r sylwadau y mae'r Gweinidog wedi'u gwneud ar y pwynt penodol hwn. Diolch, Llywydd.