English: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I think I will start by saying we all owe a debt of gratitude to firefighters who enter buildings when the rest of us are leaving. A huge amount of work has been done on fire prevention, and credit has been paid to you and the sprinkler system, but the huge amount that's done by the fire service in going out and putting smoke alarms in houses have obviously saved many hundreds of lives. I was hoping this statement would have involved the reconfiguration of fire and rescue services. I have long been of the view that a mid and west Wales fire and rescue service makes little operational sense. A major fire in Welshpool, for example, will want tenders from Wrexham; it won't want them from Swansea or Neath Port Talbot. On governance, there is a substantial democratic deficit. This is not unique to the fire and rescue service; it covers all joint working. That's why people have some concerns over joint working. How will changing the current membership of fire and rescue authorities ensure that members are accountable to their electorate? Why not have a report from the fire and rescue to a scrutiny committee at each council, or, better still, have an annual report from the chief fire officer and the fire authority to a council meeting? How will appointing non-council members and reducing the number of councillors involved improve accountability? On funding, can the Cabinet Secretary name another council service that would not like to change the fire and rescue authorities' ability to levy on the councils concerned? I think that both education and social services would leap at the chance to have this opportunity. So, we do need a better method of funding fire services because they are funded entirely differently. And it didn't matter when we had a growing amount of money in the public services; it does matter now. And I think that the Cabinet Secretary is right - we should not be afraid of change, but what we should always do is make sure change is for the better, not for the worse.
Welsh: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Rwy'n credu y gwnaf i ddechrau drwy ddweud bod ar bob un ohonom ni ddyled o ddiolchgarwch i ddiffoddwyr tân sy'n mynd i adeiladau pan fo'r gweddill ohonom ni'n gadael. Mae llawer iawn o waith wedi'i wneud ar atal tannau, ac rydych chi a'r system chwistrellu wedi eu canmol, ond mae'r gwaith enfawr a wneir gan y gwasanaeth tân o ran mynd allan a rhoi larymau mwg mewn tai yn amlwg wedi arbed cannoedd o fywydau. Roeddwn yn gobeithio y byddai'r datganiad hwn wedi cynnwys ad-drefnu gwasanaethau tân ac achub. Rwyf wedi bod o'r farn ers tro byd nad yw gwasanaeth tân ac achub ar gyfer y canolbarth a'r gorllewin yn gwneud fawr o synnwyr gweithredol. Er enghraifft, pe byddai tân mawr yn y Trallwng, byddai angen diffoddwyr o Wrecsam; nid o Abertawe neu Gastell-nedd Port Talbot. O ran llywodraethu, mae diffyg democrataidd sylweddol. Nid yw hyn yn unigryw i'r gwasanaeth tân ac achub; mae'n berthnasol i bob math o gydweithio. Dyna pam mae rhai pryderon gan bobl dros weithio ar y cyd. Sut fydd newid aelodaeth bresennol awdurdodau tân ac achub yn sicrhau bod aelodau yn atebol i'w hetholwyr? Pam ddim cael adroddiad oddi wrth yr awdurdod tân ac achub i bwyllgor craffu ym mhob cyngor, neu, gwell fyth, cael adroddiad blynyddol gan y prif swyddog tân a'r awdurdod tân i gyfarfod cyngor? Sut fydd penodi aelodau nad ydyn nhw'n gynghorwyr a lleihau nifer y cynghorwyr yn gwella atebolrwydd? O ran cyllid, a all Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet enwi gwasanaeth cyngor arall na hoffai newid gallu yr awdurdodau tân ac achub i godi ardoll ar y cynghorau dan sylw? Rwy'n credu y byddai addysg a'r gwasanaethau cymdeithasol yn eiddgar iawn i gael cyfle o'r fath. Felly, mae angen dull gwell arnom ni o ariannu gwasanaethau tân oherwydd maen nhw yn cael eu hariannu mewn ffordd gwbl wahanol. Ac nid oedd ots pan oedd gennym ni swm cynyddol o arian yn y gwasanaethau cyhoeddus; mae yn bwysig bellach. Ac rwy'n credu bod Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet yn gywir - ni ddylem ni fod ag ofn newid, ond beth y dylem ni ei wneud bob amser yw gwneud yn siŵr bod y newid er gwell, nid er gwaeth.