English: Llywydd, I thank the Member for those remarks. He and I have agreed previously in the Chamber that paying for social care is one of those issues that successive Governments have failed to grapple with, and to produce a successful policy conclusion. Many of us here will remember our colleague Gwenda Thomas who produced a Green Paper on paying for social care nearly a decade ago here in this Assembly. I'm very grateful to the First Minister for agreeing that Huw Irranca-Davies will chair this inter-ministerial group to make sure that we draw all our arguments together, but it will also have an important interface with the UK Government, because one of the things that makes legislating on social care in Wales a challenge is that it inevitably has immediate interfaces with responsibilities at the Treasury, at the Department of Health and Social Care and in the Department for Work and Pensions. And successfully designing a Welsh tax in this area would have to be sure that it had seen to the successful resolution of those very important interfaces. I note what the Member said about his support for permissive powers for local authorities. He was quite right to highlight the fact that I went out of my way in my statement to make it clear that this is about drawing powers down to Wales, it is not a guarantee that if those powers arrived here and we did the detailed work and held the various consultations, that we'll come to a conclusion about what we would then do, faced with that much richer set of knowledge. A number of the questions that the Member raised would exactly be the sorts of things you would want to explore properly in that period to make sure that the law of unintended consequences had been purposefully addressed. In the Republic of Ireland, they believe that they have got practical answers to many of the points that were raised, but we would have to be confident that we had explored those issues in Welsh circumstances and got solutions of our own. Can I end by just picking up the point that Neil Hamilton made towards the end? The debate about a vacant land tax tends to focus on housing issues, but in the republic, they were very keen to say to me that they regard it as a tool for dealing with urban dereliction just as much as they think of it as a tool for promoting land for housing, and that where you have parts of our urban areas where houses are being bought up but nothing is being done with them, where you have that downward impact on a whole area that prevents its regeneration, they regard this as a tool - a powerful tool - that they have to try to intervene in those circumstances. So, I'm grateful for the opportunity to say again that housing is a very important policy target for a vacant land tax, but regeneration and tackling dereliction are equally important purposes.
Welsh: Llywydd, hoffwn ddiolch i'r Aelod am y sylwadau hynny. Mae ef a minnau wedi cytuno o'r blaen yn y Siambr fod talu am ofal cymdeithasol yn un o'r materion hynny y mae Llywodraethau olynol wedi methu mynd i'r afael â nhw, ac i lunio polisi llwyddiannus yn ganlyniad. Bydd llawer ohonom yn cofio ein cyd-Aelod, Gwenda Thomas, yn llunio papur gwyrdd ar dalu am ofal cymdeithasol bron ddegawd yn ôl yma yn y Cynulliad hwn. Rwy'n ddiolchgar iawn i'r Prif Weinidog am gytuno y bydd Huw Irranca-Davies yn cadeirio'r grŵp rhyng-weinidogol hwn i wneud yn siŵr ein bod yn cydlynu ein holl ddadleuon. Ond bydd gan y grŵp hefyd berthynas bwysig â Llywodraeth y DU, oherwydd un o'r pethau heriol ynglŷn â deddfu ynghylch gofal cymdeithasol yng Nghymru yw bod y cyfrifoldebau yn gorgyffwrdd yn uniongyrchol â rhai'r Trysorlys, rhai'r Adran Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol a rhai yn yr adran Gwaith a Phensiynau. Ac er mwyn dylunio treth lwyddiannus i Gymru yn y maes hwn byddai angen bod yn sicr y llwyddwyd i ddatrys yr agweddau pwysig iawn hynny sy'n gorgyffwrdd. Rwy'n cydnabod y sylw a wnaeth yr Aelod am ei gefnogaeth i roi pwerau caniataol i awdurdodau lleol. Roedd yn llygad ei le yn tynnu sylw at y ffaith imi wneud ymdrech arbennig yn fy natganiad i egluro bod a wnelo hyn â cheisio cael grymoedd i Gymru. Nid yw hyn yn warant, pe bai'r pwerau hynny yn dod yma a phetaem ni'n gwneud y gwaith manwl ac yn cynnal yr amrywiol ymgynghoriadau, y byddem yn dod i gasgliad ynghylch yr hyn a wnaem ni wedyn, yn wyneb yr wybodaeth helaethach honno. Roedd nifer o'r cwestiynau a holodd yr Aelod yn union y mathau o bethau y byddech yn dymuno eu harchwilio'n briodol yn y cyfnod hwnnw i wneud yn siŵr bod y canlyniadau anfwriadol wedi cael sylw pwrpasol. Yng Ngweriniaeth Iwerddon, maen nhw'n credu bod ganddyn nhw atebion ymarferol i lawer o'r pwyntiau a godwyd. Ond byddai'n rhaid inni fod yn ffyddiog ein bod wedi ystyried y materion hynny yng nghyd-destun Cymru ac wedi dod i'n casgliadau ein hunain. A gaf i gloi drwy gyfeirio at sylw a wnaeth Neil Hamilton tuag at y diwedd? Mae'r ddadl ynghylch treth ar dir gwag yn tueddu i ganolbwyntio ar faterion tai. Ond yn y Weriniaeth, roedden nhw'n awyddus iawn i ddweud wrthyf eu bod yn ei ystyried yn fodd i ymdrin â dadfeiliad trefol cymaint ag y maen nhw'n ei ystyried yn offeryn ar gyfer datblygu tir ar gyfer tai. Ac mewn rhannau o ardaloedd trefol lle prynir tai ond ni wneir dim â nhw, lle mae gennych chi effaith negyddol ar ardal gyfan sy'n llyffethair i'w hadfywio, maen nhw'n ystyried hyn yn offeryn - offeryn grymus - sydd ganddyn nhw er mwyn ceisio ymyrryd yn yr amgylchiadau hynny. Felly, rwy'n ddiolchgar am y cyfle i ddweud unwaith eto bod tai yn bolisi targed pwysig iawn ar gyfer treth ar dir gwag, ond mae adfywio a mynd i'r afael â dadfeiliad yn ddibenion yr un mor bwysig.