English: I'm pleased to participate in this debate. I'm fortunate to have been selected for a short debate next week. I had considered doing that short debate on second homes, but I'm pleased to have an opportunity to discuss my ideas a week earlier. This issue has been of great importance to many of us in the Senedd for many years. I remember a Cymdeithas yr Iaith poster, ' Nid yw Cymru ar werth ' on the wall of my bedroom in the 1980s. But the lockdown and the fact that people have got to know their communities better, they've noticed people moving back and forth to second homes, trying to register with GP surgeries and so on, has given a new impetus to this, has raised the level of concerns and has increased the desire among the public to see us do something to resolve this problem. Parts of Wales - many parts of Wales - still feel that they are for sale to the highest bidder and, too often, our young people and people on low salaries in our communities simply can't compete. It's difficult to know where to start with the examples that I see on Anglesey. Some four of every 10 homes are holiday homes in places like Rhosneigr. You see ideal family homes going for absurd prices, way beyond the reach of the local community, and the result is that those homes are withdrawn from the housing market forever: a small cottage that's doubled in value in a few years; the house on an estate in Llangaffo rented out for £1,800 a month on a website in London; old terrace houses and council houses becoming holiday homes. For some, they are homes to be used occasionally. I see no fault on people who want to do that; Anglesey is a wonderful place to spend a weekend. But there are implications to this: it pushes prices up and it changes the nature of communities, and we know how lifeless many communities with a high number of holiday homes are throughout the year. Many people do buy second homes as holiday lets, and many of these are local people. But the implications are the same. Websites such as Airbnb have made this even more attractive and easier. But it's no coincidence that so many areas and cities across the world have prohibited or placed strict restrictions on Airbnb lets now. A constituent recently got in touch to complain that one house on their estate had parties every evening, as people came in for short holidays. That's not the kind of community that people expect to live in on these estates in our villages. As others have suggested, there are ways of introducing rules and regulations to stop this. Make it a requirement to have planing consent to turn a permanent home into a home that is let for brief periods. It's not rejecting all holiday lets. Self-catering can be an important part of our tourism offer but, at the moment, it's out of control. We need to be able to decide how many to allow within any community and how many holiday homes too. And that means placing a cap and allowing no more than that cap in some communities. I'll turn to the loophole that Mike Hedges mentioned - the taxation loophole that we've been asking the Welsh Government to close for years now, but with no joy. A loophole where people register a holiday home as a holiday let, and therefore do not pay council tax, which has a premium, of course, as a second home in certain counties, and then are given full business rate relief. The threshold for change of use is far too low and it costs as much as £1 million per annum for a council such as Anglesey, and it has to stop. It's as simple as that. It's a disgrace that the Labour Government has refused to acknowledge the problem. The problem became even more apparent at the beginning of this pandemic when £10,000 in support was available for small businesses. It's wonderful that real businesses do receive that support, but it's disgraceful to see people trying to take advantage of that. With the clock against against me, let me just say this, in conclusion: there is nothing unique to Wales, as we've heard already, in what we're discussing. Concerns about the impact of the ownership of second homes and holiday homes has led to legislative changes and robust steps across the world. So, let's do what others have realised has to be done. It's not an attack on tourism, by the way, but tourism without control is something that happens to a community, it's very different to tourism which is controlled, where there is real ownership and which is sustainable within our communities. I'll leave it there. We know that Plaid Cymru want to see action. We're urging this Government to start to take action now, because we are in a crisis.
Welsh: Dwi'n falch o allu cymryd rhan yn y ddadl yma. Dwi'n ffodus i fod wedi cael fy newis ar gyfer dadl fer wythnos nesaf. Roeddwn i wedi meddwl gwneud honno am ail gartrefi, ond dwi'n falch o gael rhannu fy sylwadau i wythnos yn gynharach hyd yn oed. Mae'r mater yma yn un sydd wedi bod o bwys mawr i nifer ohonom ni yn y Senedd yma ers blynyddoedd lawer. Dwi'n cofio poster Cymdeithas yr Iaith 'Nid yw Cymru ar werth' ar wal fy llofft yn yr 1980au. Ond mae'r cyfnod clo, y ffaith bod pobl wedi dod i adnabod eu cymunedau'n well, yn sylwi ar bobl yn symud yn ôl ac ymlaen i ail gartrefi, ceisio cofrestru efo meddygfeydd ac ati, wedi rhoi impetus o'r newydd i hyn, wedi codi lefel y pryderon ac wedi cynyddu'r awydd ymysg y cyhoedd i'n gweld ni'n gwneud rhywbeth i ddatrys y broblem. Mae rhannau o Gymru - llawer o rannau - yn dal i deimlo eu bod nhw ar werth to the highest bidder. Ac, yn rhy aml, dydy ein pobl ifanc ni, pobl ar gyflogau isel yn ein cymunedau ni, ddim yn gallu cystadlu. Mae'n anodd gwybod ble i ddechrau efo'r enghreifftiau dwi'n eu gweld yn Ynys Môn. Mae cymaint â phedwar allan o bob 10 tŷ yn dai gwyliau mewn lle fe Rhosneigr. Rydych chi'n gweld tai cyffredin, tai teulu delfrydol yn mynd am brisiau hurt, ymhell iawn o afael y gymuned. Y canlyniad ydy bod tai yn diflannu oddi ar y farchnad leol am byth: y bwthyn bach yn ein hymyl ni sydd wedi mwy na dyblu yn ei werth mewn ychydig flynyddoedd; y tŷ ar stâd yn Llangaffo ar rent am bron i £1,800 y mis ar wefan o Lundain, yn y dyddiau diwethaf; tai teras a hen dai cyngor yn troi yn dai haf. I rai, maen nhw'n dai i'w defnyddio yn achlysurol. Dwi'n gweld dim bai ar bobl am fod eisiau gwneud hynny; mae Ynys Môn yn lle perffaith i dreulio penwythnos. Ond mae yna oblygiadau i hyn: mae'n gwthio prisiau i fyny, mae'n newid natur cymunedau, ac rydyn ni'n gwybod mor ddifywyd ydy cymunedau llawn tai haf drwy lawer o'r flwyddyn. Mae eraill yn prynu tai haf i'w defnyddio nhw fel holiday let. Yn aml iawn, pobl leol ydy'r rhain, ond yr un ydy'r goblygiadau. Mae gwefannau fel Airbnb, wedyn, wedi gwneud hyn yn fwy deniadol fyth, yn haws. Ond nid cyd-ddigwyddiad ydy bod cymaint o ardaloedd a dinasoedd ledled y byd wedi gwahardd neu osod cyfyngiadau llym ar osod Airbnb erbyn hyn. Mi wnaeth etholwr, yn ddiweddar, gysylltu i gwyno bod un tŷ ar eu stâd deuluol nhw yn Ynys Môn yn bartis nosweithiol, wrth i bobl aros yno am wyliau byr. Nid dyna sut gymdogaeth mae pobl yn disgwyl byw ynddi hi ar stadau bach yn ein pentrefi ni. Fel mae eraill wedi egluro, mae yna ffyrdd o gyflwyno rheolau i stopio hyn. Gwnewch hi'n angenrheidiol i gael caniatâd cynllunio i droi tŷ parhaol yn dŷ sy'n cael ei osod am gyfnodau byr. Nid gwrthod pob holiday let ydy hynny. Mae tai gwyliau hunanarlwyo yn gallu bod yn rhan bwysig iawn o'n harlwy twristiaeth ni, ond, ar hyn o bryd, mae allan o reolaeth. Rydyn ni angen gallu penderfynu faint i'w caniatáu o fewn unrhyw gymuned, a faint o dai haf. Ac ydy, mae hynny yn cynnwys rhoi cap a chaniatáu dim mwy mewn rhai cymunedau. Mi wnaf innau droi at y loophole y clywsom ni Mike Hedges yn sôn amdano fo - y loophole trethiannol rydyn ni wedi bod yn gofyn i Lywodraeth Cymru ei gau ers blynyddoedd, erbyn hyn, ond heb lwc. Loophole ble mae pobl yn cofrestru tŷ haf fel holiday let, a thrwy hynny yn cael peidio â thalu treth gyngor, sydd â phremiwm arno fo, wrth gwrs, fel ail gartref mewn rhai siroedd, ac wedyn yn cael rhyddhad llawn ar dreth busnes. Mae'r trothwy ar gyfer newid defnydd yn llawer rhy isel, ac mae'n costio'n ddrud, gymaint â £1 miliwn y flwyddyn i gyngor fel Ynys Môn, ac mae'n rhaid iddo fo stopio. Mae mor syml â hynny. Mae'n gywilydd o beth bod y Llywodraeth Lafur wedi gwrthod cydnabod y broblem. Mi ddaeth y broblem yn amlycach fyth ar ddechrau'r pandemig yma pan roedd £10,000 o gefnogaeth ar gael i fusnesau bach. Gwych o beth fod busnesau go iawn yn cael cefnogaeth, ond gwarthus gweld pobl yn trio manteisio arno fo. Efo'r cloc yn fy erbyn i, gadewch i mi ddweud hyn i gloi: does yna ddim byd yn unigryw i Gymru, fel rydyn ni wedi clywed yn barod, yn beth rydyn ni yn ei drafod. Mae pryderon am effaith perchnogaeth ail gartrefi a thai gwyliau wedi arwain at ddeddfwriaeth a chamau pendant iawn ar hyd a lled y byd. Gadewch i ni wneud beth mae eraill wedi sylweddoli mae'n rhaid gwneud. Nid ymosodiad ar dwristiaeth ydy hyn, gyda llaw, ond mae twristiaeth heb ei reoli, sydd yn rhywbeth sy'n digwydd i gymuned, yn wahanol iawn i dwristiaeth sy'n cael ei reoli a lle mae yna berchnogaeth go iawn arno fo ac sy'n gynaliadwy o fewn ein cymunedau ni. Mi adawaf hi yn fanna. Rydyn ni'n gwybod bod Plaid Cymru eisiau gweithredu. Rydyn ni'n gofyn ar y Llywodraeth yma i ddechrau gweithredu rwan, achos rydyn ni mewn argyfwng.