English: I'm pleased to make a brief contribution to this debate. Now, I don't profess to have the kind of detailed and technical knowledge that some of our other speakers have shown this afternoon, but what I do know is that I have dealt with a very steady stream of complaints about unadopted roads in my 19 years as Assembly Member for Torfaen. Now, in some cases, those roads have been in a genuinely woeful condition. I made a site visit a few years ago to Brook Street in Pontrhydyrun in Cwmbran, to find that the road was in such a bad state on a rainy day that a duck had actually taken up residence in one of the potholes there. I hasten to add that this was not a water feature that anybody in the street was pleased to see. Now, I am acutely aware of how cash-strapped my local authority is. I know that they simply don't have the resources to deal with this problem throughout the borough, and I also know that, in most cases, my constituents don't have the spare cash either. So, I therefore very much welcome the idea of a taskforce to bring everybody together to look at this issue. We all know that we are in very difficult times because of austerity with our public finances, but I hope that bringing people together can be an opportunity to look at innovative solutions, like the ones that Dai Lloyd has referred to, but others such as where the local authorities can come together to block-buy materials to work together to do things. I really think we have to think outside of the box on this. Otherwise, it will be a problem that's with us in another 40 years, and that duck will still be there. So, thank you very much for the opportunity to contribute. I will be supporting this motion.
Welsh: Rwy'n falch o gyfrannu'n fyr i'r ddadl hon. Nawr, nid wyf yn honni fod gennyf y math o wybodaeth fanwl a thechnegol a ddangoswyd gan rai o'n siaradwyr eraill y prynhawn yma, ond gwn fy mod wedi ymdrin â llif cyson iawn o gwynion am ffyrdd heb eu mabwysiadu yn fy 19 mlynedd fel Aelod Cynulliad dros Dorfaen. Nawr, mewn rhai achosion, mae'r ffyrdd hyn wedi bod mewn cyflwr gwirioneddol druenus. Rai blynyddoedd yn ôl ymwelais â safle yn Brook Street, Pontrhydyrun yng Nghwmbrân, a gweld bod y ffordd mewn cyflwr mor wael ar ddiwrnod glawog fel bod hwyaden wedi mynd i nofio yn un o'r tyllau yn y ffordd. Prysuraf i ychwanegu nad oedd yn nodwedd dŵr roedd unrhyw un yn y stryd yn falch o'i gweld. Nawr, rwy'n ymwybodol iawn o ba mor brin o arian yw fy awdurdod lleol. Gwn nad oes ganddynt adnoddau i ymdrin â'r broblem hon ledled y fwrdeistref, a gwn hefyd, yn y rhan fwyaf o achosion, nad oes gan fy etholwyr arian yn sbâr chwaith. Felly, rwy'n croesawu'n fawr y syniad o dasglu i ddod â phawb at ei gilydd i edrych ar y mater hwn. Mae pawb ohonom yn gwybod ein bod mewn cyfnod anodd iawn gyda'n harian cyhoeddus yn sgil polisïau cyni, ond gobeithiaf y bydd dod â phobl at ei gilydd yn gyfle i edrych ar atebion arloesol, fel y rhai y cyfeiriodd Dai Lloyd atynt, ond eraill hefyd fel y modd y gall awdurdodau lleol ddod ynghyd i swmp brynu deunyddiau er mwyn gweithio gyda'i gilydd i wneud pethau. Rwy'n credu o ddifrif fod yn rhaid inni feddwl yn greadigol am hyn. Fel arall, bydd yn broblem a fydd gennym mewn 40 mlynedd arall, a bydd yr hwyaden yn dal i fod yno. Diolch yn fawr iawn am y cyfle i gyfrannu. Byddaf yn cefnogi'r cynnig hwn.