English: Andrew R.T. Davies is right, Llywydd, that the post of the new permanent secretary was advertised on Monday of last week. I think I've said before that the adjective 'permanent' is a bit of a misnomer these days, because permanent secretaries are appointed on fixed five-year terms and the current permanent secretary's term of office will come to an end at the start of the next calendar year. I think I've come to a conclusion that one of the ways in which some Whitehall departments operate has something to offer us here, because in a number of Whitehall departments, alongside a permanent secretary, there is what's called a 'chief operating officer'. The chief operating officer's job is to deal with the mechanics of the way a department is operated: to deal with staffing matters, to deal with terms and conditions matters, to deal with who gets to park their cars where - all those sorts of things, which, at the moment, in the Welsh Government, all end up on the desk of the permanent secretary. Now, I want a permanent secretary whose time is available to help make the programme of the Government succeed and I think the new person would be helped, if, alongside them, they had a chief operating officer dealing more with the mechanics of Government. And I had an opportunity of a considerable conversation with Simon Case, the head of the Cabinet Office at Whitehall, and I thought learnt some useful things from what he said to me about how we might learn some of those lessons here. There will indeed be a legislative programme, Llywydd, and that will begin in this first year of the Senedd and I will make the usual legislative programme statement in the second half of this summer term. I'm grateful for what Andrew Davies said about the agriculture Bill. He will remember that in the previous Senedd we agreed, partly because of representations from opposition parties, that the powers we took through the UK agriculture Bill would be time-limited - that there would be a sunset clause. Now, I think that was the right thing to do, but it does put a pressure on all of us here to make sure that we are able to put a Wales-specific agriculture Bill on the statute book so that we can go on doing all the things that we need to do to assist farmers and others who rely on the rural economy. So, that is a Bill that we will bring forward and I hope we will be able to work in the co-operative spirit that the leader of the opposition mentioned in his introduction. As far as universal basic income is concerned, what the Government proposes is what we said in our manifesto and that is an experiment and a pilot. We don't have all the powers that would be necessary, let alone all of the funding that would be necessary to include a universal basic income for the whole of Wales, but we do have the ability, I believe, to design a smart experiment that will allow us to test the claims that are made for universal basic income. Now, I've been familiar with these claims for many years. My own doctoral thesis dealt with a group that advocated something called, 'social credit' in the inter-war period. Social credit is a form of universal basic income. They had a group here in Cardiff who were active in the promotion of the idea at the time. So, this is an idea with a very long history, but very little practical application to learn whether the things that are said for it are actually realised in the lives of people who receive it. And if we are able to begin with young people who come out of our care system, then I think there are strong arguments for doing that. They are a group of people who we know - we're able to identify them; we're able to provide, not simply an income for them, but the other assistance that they need to set their lives off on to successful futures. And I look forward, along with many Members in the Chamber who have an interest in UBI - I look forward to debating and discussing it with others who would like to see that experiment succeed as an experiment, where we will learn whether it works or, indeed, whether it doesn't deliver what's claimed for it. And as far as the future of the Senedd is concerned, then it is indeed, as the leader of the opposition said, primarily a matter for the Senedd, not for the Government. There will be significant support on this side of the Chamber, as Members will have heard last week in the speeches made by my colleagues David Rees and Hefin David, both of whom referred to the need to take forward the proposals in the Laura McAllister review, and that that would be part of what they would seek to do were they elected as our Deputy Presiding Officer. So, there will be significant support on these benches for that effort, but in the end it is, as the leader of the opposition said, a matter for the Senedd itself, the Parliament itself, rather than the Government to take the lead.
Welsh: Mae Andrew R.T. Davies yn llygad ei le, Lywydd, fod swydd yr ysgrifennydd parhaol newydd wedi'i hysbysebu ddydd Llun yr wythnos diwethaf. Credaf fy mod wedi dweud eisoes fod yr ansoddair 'parhaol' yn gamarweiniol bellach, gan fod ysgrifenyddion parhaol yn cael eu penodi am dymor sefydlog o bum mlynedd a bydd cyfnod yr ysgrifennydd parhaol presennol yn y swydd yn dod i ben ar ddechrau'r flwyddyn galendr nesaf. Credaf fy mod wedi dod i'r casgliad fod gan un o'r ffyrdd y mae rhai adrannau Whitehall yn gweithredu rywbeth i'w gynnig i ni yma, oherwydd mewn nifer o adrannau Whitehall, ochr yn ochr ag ysgrifennydd parhaol, mae ganddynt yr hyn a elwir yn 'brif swyddog gweithredu'. Swydd y prif swyddog gweithredu yw ymdrin â mecanwaith y ffordd y mae adran yn cael ei gweithredu: ymdrin â materion staffio, ymdrin â materion yn ymwneud â thelerau ac amodau, ymdrin â phwy sy'n cael parcio eu ceir ymhle - yr holl fathau hynny o bethau, sydd ar hyn o bryd, yn Llywodraeth Cymru, yn gyfrifoldebau i'r ysgrifennydd parhaol. Nawr, rwyf eisiau ysgrifennydd parhaol sydd ag amser ar gael i helpu i sicrhau bod y rhaglen lywodraethu'n llwyddo, a chredaf y byddai'n gymorth i'r unigolyn newydd pe bai ganddynt brif swyddog gweithredu ochr yn ochr â hwy i ymdrin mwy â mecanwaith Llywodraeth. A chefais gyfle i gael sgwrs hir gyda Simon Case, pennaeth Swyddfa'r Cabinet yn Whitehall, a chredaf fy mod wedi dysgu pethau defnyddiol o'r hyn a ddywedodd wrthyf ynglŷn â sut y gallem ddysgu rhai o'r gwersi hynny yma. Fe fydd yna raglen ddeddfwriaethol, Lywydd, a bydd honno'n cychwyn ym mlwyddyn gyntaf y Senedd hon a byddaf yn gwneud y datganiad arferol ar y rhaglen ddeddfwriaethol yn ail hanner tymor yr haf hwn. Rwy'n ddiolchgar am yr hyn a ddywedodd Andrew Davies am y Bil amaethyddiaeth. Fe fydd yn cofio inni gytuno, yn y Senedd flaenorol, yn rhannol oherwydd sylwadau gan y gwrthbleidiau, y byddai'r pwerau a fyddai'n dod i ni drwy Fil amaethyddiaeth y DU yn gyfyngedig o ran amser - y byddai cymal machlud ar waith. Nawr, credaf mai dyna'r peth iawn i'w wneud, ond mae'n rhoi pwysau ar bob un ohonom yma i sicrhau y gallwn roi Bil amaethyddiaeth sy'n benodol i Gymru ar y llyfrau statud fel y gallwn barhau i wneud yr holl bethau y mae angen i ni eu gwneud i gynorthwyo ffermwyr ac eraill sy'n dibynnu ar yr economi wledig. Felly, mae hwnnw'n Fil y byddwn yn ei gyflwyno a gobeithiaf y gallwn weithio yn yr ysbryd cydweithredol y soniodd arweinydd yr wrthblaid amdano yn ei gyflwyniad. O ran incwm sylfaenol cyffredinol, yr hyn y mae'r Llywodraeth yn ei gynnig yw'r hyn a ddywedasom yn ein maniffesto, sef arbrawf a chynllun peilot. Nid oes gennym yr holl bwerau a fyddai'n angenrheidiol, heb sôn am yr holl arian a fyddai'n angenrheidiol i gynnwys incwm sylfaenol cyffredinol i Gymru gyfan, ond credaf fod gennym y gallu i lunio arbrawf craff a fydd yn caniatáu inni brofi'r honiadau a wneir am incwm sylfaenol cyffredinol. Nawr, rwy'n gyfarwydd â'r honiadau hyn ers blynyddoedd lawer. Roedd fy nhraethawd doethuriaeth yn ymwneud â grŵp a oedd yn dadlau o blaid rhywbeth o'r enw 'credyd cymdeithasol' yn y cyfnod rhwng y ddau ryfel byd. Mae credyd cymdeithasol yn fath o incwm sylfaenol cyffredinol. Roedd ganddynt grŵp yma yng Nghaerdydd a fu'n weithgar iawn yn hyrwyddo'r syniad ar y pryd. Felly, mae hwn yn syniad ag iddo hanes hir iawn, ond ychydig iawn o gymhwysiad ymarferol i ddysgu a yw'r pethau sy'n cael eu dweud amdano yn cael eu gwireddu ym mywydau'r bobl sy'n ei dderbyn. Ac os gallwn ddechrau gyda phobl ifanc sy'n gadael ein system ofal, credaf fod dadleuon cryf dros wneud hynny. Maent yn grŵp o bobl y gwyddom amdanynt - gallwn nodi pwy ydynt; gallwn ddarparu, nid yn unig incwm ar eu cyfer, ond y cymorth arall sydd ei angen arnynt i sicrhau eu bod yn dechrau eu bywydau gan anelu at ddyfodol llwyddiannus. Ac edrychaf ymlaen, ynghyd â llawer o Aelodau yn y Siambr sydd â diddordeb mewn incwm sylfaenol cyffredinol - edrychaf ymlaen at ddadlau amdano a'i drafod ag eraill sy'n awyddus i weld yr arbrawf hwnnw'n llwyddo fel arbrawf, lle byddwn yn dysgu a yw'n gweithio, neu'n cyflawni'r hyn sy'n cael ei honni yn ei gylch. Ac o ran dyfodol y Senedd, fel y dywedodd arweinydd yr wrthblaid, mae'n sicr yn fater i'r Senedd yn bennaf, nid i'r Llywodraeth. Bydd cefnogaeth sylweddol ar yr ochr hon i'r Siambr, fel y bydd yr Aelodau wedi'i glywed yr wythnos diwethaf yn yr areithiau gan fy nghyd-Aelodau David Rees a Hefin David, wrth i'r ddau ohonynt gyfeirio at yr angen i fwrw ymlaen â'r cynigion yn adolygiad Laura McAllister, ac y byddai hynny'n rhan o'r hyn y byddent yn ceisio'i wneud pe byddent yn cael eu hethol yn Ddirprwy Lywydd. Felly, bydd cefnogaeth sylweddol ar y meinciau hyn i'r ymdrech honno, ond yn y pen draw, fel y dywedodd arweinydd yr wrthblaid, mater i'r Senedd ei hun, yn hytrach na'r Llywodraeth, yw arwain ar hyn.