English: I'll certainly look at that issue in terms of how we can encourage, through guidance, which will become statutory, the importance of ensuring that tenants are skilled and equipped and confident to be challenging board members. I'm very keen that, in all circumstances, board members understand that their role is very much there as a role of challenging and scrutiny, and they should always be enabled to have those skills in order to undertake that kind of role in a robust and thorough manner. I'd also add that one of the performance standards that RSLs have to adhere to specifically compels them to demonstrate effective and appropriate tenant involvement and high-quality and improving services for tenants. TPAS Cymru, through hearing the tenants' voice in the regulation of housing associations in Wales, does gather views and concerns from tenants across Wales on behalf of the Welsh Government, and the information that TPAS then provides Welsh Government does give us a kind of sense check in terms of what RSLs are telling us about how they involve tenants and take their views into account. TPAS Cymru, when giving evidence, said, 'I think one of the risks here is about the need to make sure that tenants are involved and that their voices are heard throughout the process in terms of how organisations are operating, and that's one of the new regulatory standards. Tenants are now expected to be part of the structural planning of a housing association.' They think that that is very much something to be welcomed, as I do. So, undoubtedly, there will be points of detail that we will need to consider in more depth as we move to Stage 2 of the process, but today I would ask Members to approve the motion.
Welsh: Yn sicr, byddaf yn ystyried y mater hwnnw o ran sut y gallwn annog, drwy'r canllawiau, a ddaw yn statudol, y pwysigrwydd o sicrhau bod tenantiaid yn fedrus a bod ganddyn nhw'r gallu a'r hyder i herio aelodau bwrdd. Rwy'n awyddus iawn, ym mhob amgylchiad, bod aelodau bwrdd yn deall mai eu swyddogaeth nhw, i raddau helaeth, yw herio a chraffu, a dylen nhw bob amser gael eu galluogi i fod â'r sgiliau hynny er mwyn cynnal y math hwnnw o swyddogaeth mewn modd cadarn a thrylwyr. Hoffwn i hefyd ychwanegu bod un o'r safonau perfformiad, y mae'n rhaid i landlordiaid cymdeithasol cofrestredig lynu wrthyn nhw yn benodol, yn eu gorfodi i ddangos ymgysylltiad effeithiol a phriodol gyda thenantiaid, a gwasanaethau gwell o safon uchel i denantiaid. Mae TPAS Cymru, drwy glywed llais tenantiaid wrth reoleiddio cymdeithasau tai yng Nghymru, yn casglu barn a phryderon gan denantiaid ledled Cymru ar ran Llywodraeth Cymru. Mae'r wybodaeth y mae TPAS yn ei darparu wedyn i Lywodraeth Cymru yn gwirio mewn ffordd, ar ein cyfer ni, a yw'r hyn y mae landlordiaid cymdeithasol cofrestredig yn ei ddweud wrthym yn ystyrlon o ran sut maen nhw'n ymgysylltu â thenantiaid ac yn ystyried eu barn. Dywedwyd ar ran TPAS Cymru, wrth roi tystiolaeth, ei fod yn credu bod un o'r risgiau yma yn ymwneud â'r angen i sicrhau bod tenantiaid yn cymryd rhan a bod eu lleisiau'n cael eu clywed drwy gydol y broses o ran sut y mae sefydliadau yn gweithredu, a dyna un o'r safonau rheoleiddio newydd. Disgwylir i denantiaid bellach fod yn rhan o'r cynllunio strwythurol ar gyfer cymdeithasau tai. Maen nhw'n credu bod hynny'n rhywbeth i'w groesawu i raddau helaeth, fel y gwnaf i. Felly, yn ddi-os, bydd pwyntiau manwl y bydd angen inni eu hystyried yn ddyfnach wrth inni symud i Gyfnod 2 y broses, ond heddiw rwy'n gofyn i'r Aelodau gymeradwyo'r cynnig.