English: Can I thank Alun Davies for his contribution? Again, incredibly constructive - there is nothing I could disagree with with what Alun Davies has outlined. He made three really strong points. One, there is the need for short-term support to get the sector through the pandemic. Secondly, there's the need for transition support to make sure that we futureproof the industry, to make it competitive, to make sure that it can transition and compete with industry disrupters. And then, thirdly, Alun makes this powerful point that we have to recognise that taxis and private hire vehicle services are an integral part of the public transport network here in Wales, and I would agree entirely that that needs to be demonstrated, and it will be demonstrated through the legislation that we will bring forward in the second year of the next term of the Senedd. And in terms of the immediate support to the industry, well, so far, we've secured more than 100,000 jobs through the economic resilience fund, and that's in addition to the support from the UK Government for the self-employment support scheme and the job retention scheme, which I know has been helping the sector, but which it appears, in many instances, particularly here in Wales, is actually not getting through to individual drivers for one reason or another. Based on the discussions that we've had with the TUC and with unions, we believe that a lack of access to information may be a critical factor in appropriate support not getting through to drivers. And so, as I said in response to Helen Mary Jones, we're working with the unions to ensure that appropriate information can be distributed and disseminated right across the industry, and that the unions are working with local authorities, and of course with Welsh Government, in sharing appropriate information. Because, as I said, we set up that third phase of the ERF, particularly the £25 million discretionary grant fund element, to support sole traders such as taxi drivers, in order to survive the recent firebreak. Taxi drivers have been able to access support from that discretionary grant scheme even if they've accessed the self-employment income support scheme. So, the money has been there, it just appears that it hasn't been accessed on a sufficient scale by individuals within the sector, and that's why I have asked for answers as to why that is the case. And then, in the longer term, I think Alun Davies makes a hugely important point that we face multiple disrupting factors: the transition to electric vehicles; the transition towards potentially fully autonomous vehicles; different models of public transport - so, shared car use and the uberisation of public transport; the need to decarbonise; and different ways of working as well in a post-COVID environment, with remote working hubs. We established, through the economic action plan, the calls to action. So, businesses seeking funding from the economy futures fund must do so on the basis of one of the five points within the calls to action, and two of those concern decarbonisation and rising to the challenge of technological disruption. It is a perfect means by which the sector could access funding in order to overcome and to challenge those disruptive technologies and the transition to a net-zero economy. Again, I'd very much urge the sector to look at that particular fund as an appropriate vehicle for drawing down financial support in order to get the vehicles that they're going to need for the future.
Welsh: A gaf i ddiolch i Alun Davies am ei gyfraniad? Unwaith eto, yn anhygoel o adeiladol - ni allwn anghytuno â dim o'r hyn y mae Alun Davies wedi'i amlinellu. Gwnaeth dri phwynt cryf iawn. Un, mae angen cymorth tymor byr i gael y sector drwy'r pandemig. Yn ail, mae angen cymorth pontio i sicrhau ein bod yn diogelu'r diwydiant yn y dyfodol, i'w wneud yn gystadleuol, er mwyn sicrhau y gall bontio a chystadlu ag elfennau sy'n amharu ar y diwydiant. Ac yna, yn drydydd, mae Alun yn gwneud y pwynt pwerus hwn, fod yn rhaid inni gydnabod bod tacsis a gwasanaethau cerbydau hurio preifat yn rhan annatod o'r rhwydwaith trafnidiaeth gyhoeddus yma yng Nghymru, a byddwn yn cytuno'n llwyr fod angen dangos hynny, a chaiff ei ddangos drwy'r ddeddfwriaeth y byddwn yn ei chyflwyno yn ail flwyddyn tymor nesaf y Senedd. Ac o ran y gefnogaeth uniongyrchol i'r diwydiant, wel, hyd yma, rydym wedi sicrhau mwy na 100,000 o swyddi drwy'r gronfa cadernid economaidd, ac mae hynny'n ychwanegol at gefnogaeth Llywodraeth y DU i'r cynllun cymorth hunangyflogaeth a'r cynllun cadw swyddi, y gwn y bu o gymorth i'r sector, ond mae'n ymddangos, mewn llawer o achosion, yn enwedig yma yng Nghymru, mewn gwirionedd, nad yw gyrwyr unigol yn elwa ar hynny am ryw reswm neu'i gilydd. Yn seiliedig ar y trafodaethau yr ydym ni wedi'u cael gyda'r TUC a chydag undebau, credwn y gallai methu cael gafael ar wybodaeth fod yn ffactor allweddol o ran gyrrwyr ddim yn elwa ar gymorth priodol. Ac felly, fel y dywedais mewn ymateb i Helen Mary Jones, rydym yn gweithio gyda'r undebau i sicrhau y gellir dosbarthu a lledaenu gwybodaeth briodol ar draws y diwydiant, a bod yr undebau'n gweithio gydag awdurdodau lleol, ac wrth gwrs gyda Llywodraeth Cymru, i rannu gwybodaeth briodol. Oherwydd, fel y dywedais, fe wnaethom ni sefydlu'r trydydd cam hwnnw o'r Fframwaith, yn enwedig yr elfen gronfa grant dewisol o £25 miliwn, i gefnogi unig fasnachwyr megis gyrwyr tacsis, er mwyn goroesi'r cyfnod atal byr diweddar. Mae gyrwyr tacsis wedi gallu cael cymorth gan y cynllun grant dewisol hwnnw hyd yn oed os ydyn nhw wedi defnyddio'r cynllun cymhorthdal incwm hunangyflogaeth. Felly, mae'r arian wedi bod ar gael, mae'n ymddangos nad yw unigolion o fewn y sector wedi manteisio arno ar raddfa ddigonol, a dyna pam yr wyf wedi gofyn am atebion ynghylch pam mae hynny'n wir. Ac yna, yn y tymor hwy, credaf fod Alun Davies yn gwneud pwynt eithriadol o bwysig sef ein bod yn wynebu nifer o ffactorau tarfu: y newid i gerbydau trydan; y newid tuag at gerbydau cwbl annibynnol o bosibl; gwahanol fodelau o drafnidiaeth gyhoeddus - felly, defnyddio ceir a rennir ac ubereiddio trafnidiaeth gyhoeddus; yr angen i ddatgarboneiddio; a gwahanol ffyrdd o weithio yn ogystal â mewn amgylchedd ôl-COVID, gyda chanolfannau gweithio o bell. Fe wnaethom ni sefydlu, drwy'r cynllun gweithredu economaidd, y galwadau i weithredu. Felly, rhaid i fusnesau sy'n ceisio cyllid o gronfa dyfodol yr economi wneud hynny ar sail un o'r pum pwynt yn y galwadau i weithredu, ac mae dau o'r rheini'n ymwneud â datgarboneiddio ac ymateb i her tarfu technolegol. Mae'n ffordd berffaith i'r sector allu cael gafael ar gyllid er mwyn goresgyn a herio'r technolegau aflonyddgar hynny a'r newid i economi sero-net. Unwaith eto, byddwn yn annog y sector i edrych ar y gronfa benodol honno fel cyfrwng priodol ar gyfer defnyddio cymorth ariannol er mwyn cael y cerbydau y bydd eu hangen arnyn nhw ar gyfer y dyfodol.