English: I think there is increasing demand for a clean air Act as more people are aware of the damage they're doing to their lungs, and particularly to their children's lives. One of the nurseries in my constituency is, in every respect, an exemplary child-focused institution, except that it is an area of dangerously polluted air. Fully half of the children have respiratory problems, which is why I would find it ethically very difficult to recommend that nursery to anybody, simply because of my knowledge of what it is doing to those children's lungs. It's something that's beyond the power of the nursery providers, because they simply don't have the resources to move. But it is ironic that, right next door to it, is a primary school where parents insist on picking up their children by car, because that is their right, and they are adding to an already unacceptable problem. I find that it's not only in that particular area. In other areas of very high pollution where there are schools, parents insist on taking their children right up to the school gate. They simply are in denial about the fact that you are exposing your child to more pollution by delivering them to school in a car than you are if you walk them along the road or scoot or bike. How many times do we have to repeat this? You are actually endangering your child's health by doing this. I'm very pleased to see that the amendments proposed by the Government are actually strengthening the motion. It does, I think, indicate the level of commitment that the Government has to taking action on this, because we cannot go on like this. There's one particular ask that I have in relation to the school run, as it's called, which is that we really do need to create vehicle exclusion zones around our schools, (a) to force people to learn how to walk again, and (b) to ensure that vehicle pollution is not actually entering the playground where children are playing during their break times. I think that is something that we absolutely could be doing. And in addition to that, as the motion suggests, we should have pollution monitoring equipment outside every school and hospital so that we know exactly how much pollution people are imbibing in the places where they are obliged to go. So, I support the motion and I very much support the sentiment.
Welsh: Rwy'n credu bod galw cynyddol am Ddeddf aer glân gan fod mwy o bobl yn ymwybodol o'r niwed y maent yn ei wneud i'w hysgyfaint, ac yn enwedig i fywydau eu plant. Mae un o'r meithrinfeydd yn fy etholaeth i yn sefydliad rhagorol ym mhob agwedd, sefydliad sy'n canolbwyntio ar y plentyn unigol, heblaw'r ffaith ei bod wedi'i lleoli mewn ardal lle mae'r aer wedi'i lygru i raddau sy'n beryglus. Mae gan hanner y plant broblemau resbiradol, a dyna pam y buaswn yn ei chael yn anodd iawn yn foesol i argymell y feithrinfa honno i unrhyw un, am fy mod yn gwybod beth y mae'n ei wneud i ysgyfaint y plant hynny. Mae'n rhywbeth sydd y tu hwnt i allu darparwyr y feithrinfa i'w newid, gan nad oes ganddynt adnoddau i symud. Ond mae'n eironig fod yna ysgol gynradd y drws nesaf i'r feithrinfa lle mae rhieni'n mynnu codi eu plant yn y car, am fod ganddynt hawl i wneud hynny, ac maent yn ychwanegu at broblem sydd eisoes yn annerbyniol. Rwy'n gweld nad yn yr ardal benodol honno'n unig y mae'n digwydd. Mewn ardaloedd eraill lle ceir lefelau uchel iawn o lygredd, lle ceir ysgolion, mae rhieni'n mynnu mynd â'u plant at giât yr ysgol. Yn syml, maent yn gwadu'r ffaith eich bod yn peri i'ch plentyn ddod i gysylltiad â mwy o lygredd drwy eu danfon i'r ysgol mewn car nag y byddech pe baech yn cerdded ar hyd y ffordd neu'n mynd ar sgwter neu'n beicio. Sawl gwaith y mae'n rhaid inni ailadrodd hyn? Rydych chi'n peryglu iechyd eich plentyn drwy wneud hyn. Rwy'n falch iawn o weld bod y gwelliannau a gynigiwyd gan y Llywodraeth yn cryfhau'r cynnig. Credaf ei fod yn dangos lefel yr ymrwymiad sydd gan y Llywodraeth i weithredu ar hyn, oherwydd ni allwn barhau fel hyn. Rwyf am ofyn un peth mewn perthynas â chludo plant i'r ysgol, sef bod gwir angen creu parthau gwahardd cerbydau o amgylch ein hysgolion, (a) er mwyn gorfodi pobl i ddysgu sut i gerdded eto, a (b) er mwyn sicrhau nad yw llygredd cerbydau yn mynd i mewn i'r iard chwarae lle mae'r plant yn chwarae yn ystod eu hamser egwyl. Credaf fod hynny'n bendant yn rhywbeth y gallem ei wneud. Ac yn ychwanegol at hynny, fel yr awgryma'r cynnig, dylem gael cyfarpar monitro llygredd y tu allan i bob ysgol ac ysbyty er mwyn inni wybod faint yn union o lygredd y mae pobl yn agored iddo yn y mannau y mae'n rhaid mynd iddynt. Felly, rwy'n cefnogi'r cynnig ac rwy'n cefnogi'r teimlad sy'n sail iddo yn fawr.