English: Thank you, Chair, and I move our amendment. First of all, could I just apologise to Plaid for having to resort to a 'delete all' amendment? I don't like doing it, but it was impossible to disentangle the parts of the motion with which we had some agreement from those with which we did not. What we tried to preserve is in point 4 (b) of our amendment. I think there is something to be said for an entitlement to free school lunches for those children whose circumstances fall outside the current criteria because of particular crises. If you are a woman fleeing with her children from domestic violence, or if you are a parent whose own poor mental health has demonstrably prevented you engaging with a process to evict you or to claim your benefits, or if there is a delay even in receiving benefits - and I'm sure there'll be other examples - then maybe you really shouldn't also have to worry about relying on someone's discretion in order for your child to be able to eat, and if that food is procured locally and healthily, then so much the better. We've also in our amendment sort of recognised that some families who might not have struggled in normal circumstances to pay for their children's food have found it more difficult recently, and whilst not explicit - perhaps I should have included it, actually - there's our support for the Welsh Government's extension of free school lunch provision during holiday periods while we're in the throes of this pandemic, helping to meet the needs of children newly eligible for free school lunches as well as those already entitled. I think that's been very valuable while we're all experiencing this turmoil. But that should not slip quietly into perpetuity, and this is where we do start to part company on the proposal for universal provision of free school meals. I heard the exchange between the First Minister and Adam Price yesterday, and I heard the report given by the Child Poverty Action Group in last week's launch of the Wales civil society report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child - thank you, Helen Mary - and we would agree that children feel well and learn better if their nutrition is well cared for. And this is the primary reason for supporting measures that ensure that children from poorer families can receive free school meals - lunch and breakfast - but if you are in work, earning even a modest income, its main purpose is to help you take responsibility for looking after yourself and your family. Where exactly to draw the line between paying or not paying for your children's school meals should always be open to review, I think. But to park the responsibility permanently with the state is a removal of a core and very visceral impulse and drive at the heart of being a parent. There should be no stigma at all in needing a free school meal for your child, but if you can pay for it, you really should, and the reason we can't support an otherwise acceptable Welsh Government amendment is the continuing commitment to the provision of universal free breakfasts. There are families where children are not entitled to free school lunches who either feed their children at home before they leave or who can pay for breakfast when their child is dropped off before school starts. Let them contribute to the cost of that if they need to do so. The 2020 census shows that 61,389 pupils and students received a free school breakfast, yet just 12,564 of them - that's about a fifth - of those were eligible for free school lunches. It's essentially the same arguments as against free prescriptions, and it's an opportunity to draw Members' attention to the perennial unhappy fact that we are still not creating the environment in Wales that fosters growth in better paid, more sustainable jobs that offer financial security to people, especially women, despite childcare funding. The pandemic has highlighted quite how fragile our improved employment figures were, with a steeper growth in employment in these last three months than anywhere else in the UK. As the Trussell Trust themselves say, it takes more than food to end hunger. So, all of us are uneasy and worried that child poverty is proving so intractable, but Governments needs to work together on raising educational, economic and social prosperity, not act increasingly in loco parentis. Just finally, I think it might be a surprise maybe to some Members that sixth formers can be entitled to free school meals when their peer group in further education is not, and I'm sure it's to do with funding structures, but the original motion was about entitlement replacing discretion, and it's hard to see why, then, if we cannot find equity of entitlement for 16 to 18-year-olds. As Welsh Conservatives, we see the merit in extending the entitlement to educational training until a student's eighteenth year if they're not in work - itself a step towards addressing poverty - and it follows that parity of support should underpin that. Thank you.
Welsh: Diolch, Gadeirydd, ac rwy'n cynnig ein gwelliant. Yn gyntaf oll, a gaf fi ymddiheuro i Blaid Cymru am orfod cynnwys gwelliant 'dileu popeth'? Nid wyf yn hoffi gwneud hynny, ond roedd hi'n amhosibl datglymu'r rhannau o'r cynnig roeddem yn cytuno i ryw raddau â hwy a'r rhai nad oeddem yn cytuno â hwy. Mae'r hyn y ceisiasom ei gadw ym mhwynt 4 (b) ein gwelliant. Credaf fod rhywbeth i'w ddweud am hawl i gael cinio ysgol am ddim i'r plant y mae eu hamgylchiadau y tu allan i'r meini prawf presennol oherwydd argyfyngau penodol. Os ydych yn fenyw sy'n dianc gyda'i phlant rhag trais domestig, neu os ydych yn rhiant y mae eich iechyd meddwl gwael eich hun wedi eich atal yn amlwg rhag cymryd rhan mewn proses i'ch troi allan neu i hawlio eich budd-daliadau, neu os oes oedi hyd yn oed o ran cael budd-daliadau - ac rwy'n siŵr y bydd enghreifftiau eraill - efallai na ddylech orfod poeni hefyd am ddibynnu ar ddisgresiwn rhywun er mwyn i'ch plentyn allu bwyta, ac os caiff y bwyd hwnnw ei gaffael yn lleol ac yn iach, gorau oll. Rydym hefyd wedi cydnabod yn ein gwelliant fod rhai teuluoedd na fyddent efallai wedi cael trafferth mewn amgylchiadau arferol i dalu am fwyd eu plant wedi ei chael yn anos yn ddiweddar, ac er nad yw wedi'i nodi - efallai y dylwn fod wedi'i gynnwys, mewn gwirionedd - rydym yn cefnogi ymestyn darpariaeth cinio ysgol am ddim gan Lywodraeth Cymru yn ystod cyfnodau gwyliau tra byddwn ynghanol y pandemig, gan helpu i ddiwallu anghenion plant sydd newydd ddod yn gymwys i gael ciniawau ysgol am ddim yn ogystal â'r rhai sydd eisoes â hawl. Rwy'n credu bod hynny wedi bod yn werthfawr iawn tra'n bod ni i gyd yn wynebu'r cythrwfl hwn. Ond ni ddylai hynny lithro'n dawel i barhau am byth, a dyma lle rydym yn dechrau dilyn llwybr gwahanol i'r cynnig i ddarparu prydau ysgol am ddim i bawb. Clywais y drafodaeth rhwng y Prif Weinidog ac Adam Price ddoe, a chlywais yr adroddiad a roddwyd gan y Grŵp Gweithredu ar Dlodi Plant yn lansiad adroddiad cymdeithas sifil Cymru yr wythnos diwethaf i Bwyllgor y Cenhedloedd Unedig ar Hawliau'r Plentyn - diolch, Helen Mary - a byddem yn cytuno bod plant yn teimlo'n dda ac yn dysgu'n well os gofalir yn dda am eu maeth. A dyma'r prif reswm dros gefnogi mesurau sy'n sicrhau y gall plant o deuluoedd tlotach gael prydau ysgol am ddim - cinio a brecwast - ond os ydych yn gweithio, ac yn ennill incwm cymedrol hyd yn oed, ei brif bwrpas yw eich helpu i gymryd cyfrifoldeb dros ofalu amdanoch chi eich hun a'ch teulu. Dylai lle'n union i dynnu'r linell rhwng talu neu beidio â thalu am brydau ysgol eich plant fod yn agored i'w adolygu bob amser yn fy marn i. Ond mae rhoi'r cyfrifoldeb yn barhaol ar ysgwyddau'r wladwriaeth yn cael gwared ar reddf greiddiol a dwfn iawn ac yn mynd i wraidd bod yn rhiant. Ni ddylai fod unrhyw stigma o gwbl ynghlwm wrth fod angen pryd ysgol am ddim i'ch plentyn, ond os gallwch dalu amdano, fe ddylech wneud hynny, a'r rheswm na allwn gefnogi gwelliant sy'n dderbyniol fel arall gan Lywodraeth Cymru yw'r ymrwymiad parhaus i ddarparu brecwastau am ddim i bawb. Ceir teuluoedd lle nad oes gan blant hawl i gael cinio ysgol am ddim sydd naill ai'n bwydo eu plant gartref cyn iddynt adael neu sy'n gallu talu am frecwast pan fydd eu plentyn yn cael ei ollwng cyn i'r ysgol ddechrau. Gadewch iddynt gyfrannu at gost hynny os oes angen. Mae cyfrifiad 2020 yn dangos bod 61,389 o ddisgyblion a myfyrwyr wedi cael brecwast am ddim yn yr ysgol, ac eto dim ond 12,564 ohonynt - hynny yw tua un rhan o bump - o'r rheini oedd yn gymwys i gael ciniawau ysgol am ddim. Yr un yw'r dadleuon yn y bôn â'r rhai yn erbyn presgripsiynau am ddim, ac mae'n gyfle i dynnu sylw'r Aelodau at y ffaith drist barhaus ein bod yn dal i fethu creu'r amgylchedd yng Nghymru sy'n meithrin twf mewn swyddi mwy cynaliadwy sy'n talu'n well ac sy'n cynnig sicrwydd ariannol i bobl, yn enwedig menywod, er gwaethaf cyllid gofal plant. Mae'r pandemig wedi amlygu pa mor fregus oedd ein ffigurau cyflogaeth gwell, gyda thwf mwy serth mewn cyflogaeth yn y tri mis diwethaf nag yn unrhyw ran arall o'r DU. Fel y dywed Ymddiriedolaeth Trussell eu hunain, mae'n cymryd mwy na bwyd i roi diwedd ar newyn. Felly, mae pob un ohonom yn anesmwyth ac yn poeni bod tlodi plant mor ystyfnig, ond mae angen i Lywodraethau gydweithio i gynyddu ffyniant addysgol, economaidd a chymdeithasol, nid gweithredu fwyfwy in loco parentis. Yn olaf, rwy'n credu y gallai fod yn syndod efallai i rai Aelodau y gall disgyblion chweched dosbarth fod â hawl i gael prydau ysgol am ddim pan nad oes hawl o'r fath gan eu grŵp cyfoedion mewn addysg bellach, ac rwy'n siŵr ei fod yn ymwneud â strwythurau ariannu, ond roedd y cynnig gwreiddiol yn ymwneud â hawl yn disodli disgresiwn, ac mae'n anodd gweld pam, felly, os na allwn ddod o hyd i hawl gyfartal i bobl ifanc 16 i 18 oed. Fel Ceidwadwyr Cymreig, gwelwn rinwedd ymestyn yr hawl i hyfforddiant addysgol tan y bydd myfyriwr yn 18 oed os nad ydynt mewn gwaith - sydd ei hun yn gam tuag at fynd i'r afael â thlodi - ac mae'n dilyn y dylai hynny fod yn seiliedig ar gymorth cyfartal. Diolch.