English: The right-to-buy policy has been extremely successful across the UK, and especially in Wales, because it responded to the aspirations of those on lower incomes to purchase their own homes. As I have consistently argued, the problems with the housing market have arisen due to a lack of housing supply, and especially in Wales - not because of the 300 or 400 homes that are now annually sold under the right-to-buy schemes. Some 139,000 council and housing association homes in Wales have been sold since the right to buy was introduced in 1980 under Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Government - 139,000 homes in Wales; a remarkably successful policy. How could you have a better test of a policy's relevance and success? The Welsh Conservatives, Deputy Llywydd, have tried to offer sensible ideas of reform for this popular policy so that abolition could be avoided. The Welsh Government has not been prepared to listen, and we regret this. We then attempted to make this right to buy abolition Bill fairer. We tried to provide a fairer outcome for those tenants in the currently suspended areas so that they, too, could get one last chance to purchase their property - denied to them. We also offered an amendment with the intention of limiting the Act's operation to 10 years, following which the Welsh Ministers may lay regulations proposing that the abolition is made permanent. We did this because the Welsh Government made it clear in committee that it was not against the right to buy in principle. So, I tested this point - but alas, again, denied. No response. Another amendment that would've ensured that the abolition of the right to buy and associated rights may not have come into effect until at least two years after the Bill receives Royal Assent was also denied, despite the fact that this was what happened in Scotland to allow a calm period of transition. These amendments were laid in response to the views of tenants throughout Wales who want more house building and would prefer alternative solutions to permanent abolition. Instead, this Bill intends to take their aspiration of home ownership away from them forever. Deputy Presiding Officer, should we get the opportunity, the Welsh Conservatives will aim to reintroduce the right-to-buy policy with a reformed structure for the modern housing climate. These reforms would include ring-fencing the right-to-buy receipts so that they are reinvested into new social housing stock and removing the right to buy's applicability to new housing stock until it has been rented to a social tenant for a certain number of years. In conclusion, this Bill does not serve the people of Wales well. It serves rather a narrow, left-wing ideology, oblivious to all the evidence and decades of success in its application as a policy. We will go on reflecting the aspirations of many tenants. Even at this stage, I urge Members to reject this Bill.
Welsh: Bu'r polisi hawl i brynu yn hynod lwyddiannus ledled y DU, ac yn enwedig yng Nghymru, oherwydd ei fod yn ymateb i ddyheadau pobl ar incwm is i brynu eu cartrefi eu hunain. Fel yr wyf wedi dadlau yn gyson, mae problemau gyda'r farchnad dai wedi codi oherwydd diffyg cyflenwad tai, ac yn arbennig yng Nghymru - nid oherwydd y 300 neu 400 o gartrefi sydd ar hyn o bryd yn cael eu gwerthu bob blwyddyn o dan y cynlluniau hawl i brynu. Gwerthwyd rhyw 139,000 o gartrefi cyngor a chartrefi chymdeithasau tai yng Nghymru ers cyflwyno'r hawl i brynu yn 1980 o dan Lywodraeth Geidwadol Margaret Thatcher - 139,000 o gartrefi yng Nghymru; polisi hynod o lwyddiannus. Sut y gellid cael gwell prawf o berthnasedd a llwyddiant polisi? Ceisiodd y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig, Dirprwy Lywydd, gynnig syniadau synhwyrol i ddiwygio'r polisi poblogaidd hwn fel y gellid osgoi diddymu. Nid yw Llywodraeth Cymru wedi bod yn fodlon gwrando, er mawr ofid inni. Gwnaethom wedyn geisio gwneud diddymu'r Bil hawl i brynu hwn yn decach. Gwnaethom geisio darparu canlyniad tecach ar gyfer y tenantiaid hynny yn yr ardaloedd sydd wedi eu hatal ar hyn o bryd, er mwyn iddyn nhw, hefyd, gael cyfle olaf i brynu eu heiddo - a wrthodwyd iddynt. Fe wnaethom hefyd gynnig gwelliant gyda'r bwriad o gyfyngu gweithrediad y Ddeddf i 10 mlynedd, ac ar ôl hynny caiff Gweinidogion Cymru osod rheoliadau yn cynnig bod y bwriad i diddymu'n cael ei wneud yn barhaol. Gwnaethom hyn oherwydd i Lywodraeth Cymru ei gwneud yn glir yn y Pwyllgor nad oedd yn erbyn yr hawl i brynu mewn egwyddor. Felly, profais y pwynt hwn - ond yn anffodus, unwaith eto, gwrthodwyd. Ni chafwyd ymateb. Gwrthodwyd gwelliant arall a fyddai wedi sicrhau na fyddai diddymu'r hawl i brynu a'r hawliau cysylltiedig wedi dod i rym tan o leiaf ddwy flynedd yn dilyn Cydsyniad Brenhinol i'r Bil er gwaethaf y ffaith mai dyna a ddigwyddodd yn yr Alban i ganiatáu cyfnod pontio didrafferth. Gosodwyd y gwelliannau hyn mewn ymateb i farn tenantiaid ledled Cymru sydd eisiau i ragor o dai gael eu hadeiladu a byddai'n well iddyn nhw weld atebion amgen i ddiddymu parhaol. Yn hytrach, mae'r Bil hwn yn bwriadu cymryd eu dyhead i fod yn berchen ar dŷ oddi arnynt am byth. Dirprwy Lywydd, pe byddem ni'n cael y cyfle, nod y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig fydd ailgyflwyno'r polisi hawl i brynu gyda strwythur diwygiedig ar gyfer y sefyllfa tai cyfoes. Byddai'r diwygiadau hyn yn cynnwys clustnodi derbyniadau hawl i brynu er mwyn eu hailfuddsoddi mewn stoc tai cymdeithasol newydd a chael gwared ar berthnasedd hawl i brynu i stoc tai newydd hyd nes y bydd wedi ei rhentu gan denant cymdeithasol am nifer penodol o flynyddoedd. I gloi, nid yw'r Bil hwn yn gwasanaethu pobl Cymru'n dda. Mae'n gwasanaethu yn hytrach ideoleg adain chwith gul, sy'n anwybyddu'r holl dystiolaeth a degawdau o lwyddiant wrth weithredu'r polisi. Byddwn ni'n parhau i adlewyrchu dyheadau llawer o denantiaid. Hyd yn oed ar y cam hwn, rwy'n annog yr Aelodau i wrthod y Bil hwn.