English: Just to raise to Assembly Members' understanding, we have a couple of pieces of consultation currently live in the field of adoption legislation, and they're to do with actually speeding up the process. There's the first, which covers the new regulations required, which flow on from the risk regulations. And the second covers the proposed introduction of the two-stage system for assessing and approving adopters, which covers some of the points that you were raising there, but it's also focusing on reducing the timescale within which children and approved prospective adopters have their details added to the register for Wales to a maximum of one month, which would be a huge leap forward. Many of the points that you raised in terms of the criteria for adoptive families I haven't actually had raised with me as major issues. It's been more to do with actually matching up the right family with the right child or young person; it hasn't been to do with mortgages, and so on. But I'll go away and look at that, and I'll write to the Member on it. She asked what confidence we have in driving this forward. We do have that confidence - one, because of the performance improvement that we can see already, but also because we have the national framework in place, because we have now a strategic national outlook with the national service, and because we have assessment going on of what we are doing as well. But I'll happily write to you on the issue that you raised to do with security of tenure. I would come back to the point that I said to Dai as well: everything we do within this sphere is always with the best interests of the child paramount, first and foremost, as well as matching with adoptive families. But I'll write to you on that issue, because it hasn't been raised with me before, and it hasn't come up as a problem, so I'll go away and find out if it is. If you have any particular examples of where that's been a problem, I'd be happy if you shared them with me too.
Welsh: Dim ond i roi gwybod i Aelodau'r Cynulliad, mae gennym ni ychydig o ddarnau ymgynghori sy'n fyw ar hyn o bryd ym maes deddfwriaeth fabwysiadu, ac maen nhw'n ymwneud â chyflymu'r broses mewn gwirionedd. Dyna'r cyntaf, sy'n cwmpasu rheoliadau newydd sy'n ofynnol, sy'n deilio o'r rheoliadau risg. Ac mae'r ail yn cynnwys cynnig i gyflwyno system dau gam ar gyfer asesu a chymeradwyo pobl sydd eisiau mabwysiadu, sy'n ymdrin â rhai o'r pwyntiau y gwnaethoch chi eu crybwyll, ond mae hefyd yn canolbwyntio ar leihau'r amserlen pan gaiff manylion plant a darpar fabwysiadwyr cymeradwy eu hychwanegu at gofrestr Cymru i uchafswm o un mis, a fyddai'n gam mawr ymlaen. Nid yw llawer o'r pwyntiau a godwyd gennych chi o ran y meini prawf ar gyfer teuluoedd sy'n mabwysiadu mewn gwirionedd wedi eu dwyn i fy sylw fel materion o bwys. Mae hi wedi bod yn fwy ynglŷn â pharu mewn gwirionedd y teulu iawn gyda'r plentyn neu'r person ifanc iawn yn fwy nag unrhyw beth arall; nid yw wedi bod yn fater yn ymwneud â morgeisi, ac ati. Ond byddaf yn edrych ar hynny, a byddaf yn ysgrifennu at yr Aelod ar y mater. Gofynnodd hi pa hyder sydd gennym ni i fwrw ymlaen â hyn. Mae gennym ni'r hyder hwnnw - un, oherwydd y gwelliant mewn perfformiad y gallwn ni ei weld eisoes, ond hefyd oherwydd bod gennym ni'r Fframwaith Cenedlaethol ar waith, gan fod gennym ni bellach ragolygon cenedlaethol strategol gyda'r gwasanaeth cenedlaethol, ac am fod gennym ni asesiad ar y gweill o beth yr ydym ni yn ei wneud hefyd. Ond byddaf yn hapus i ysgrifennu atoch ar y mater a godwyd gennych chi yn ymwneud â diogelwch deiliadaeth. Dof yn ôl at y pwynt a ddywedais wrth Dai hefyd: mae popeth a wnawn ni yn y maes hwn bob amser gyda'r pwys mwyaf ar les y plentyn, yn gyntaf ac yn bennaf, yn ogystal â pharu gyda theuluoedd sy'n mabwysiadu. Ond byddaf yn ysgrifennu atoch chi ynglŷn â'r mater hwnnw, oherwydd ni ddygwyd ef i fy sylw o'r blaen, ac nid yw wedi codi fel problem, felly byddaf yn ceisio darganfod ai dyna yw'r achos. Os oes gennych chi unrhyw enghreifftiau penodol ble bu hynny yn broblem, byddwn yn hapus pe byddech chi yn eu rhannu â mi hefyd.