English: Can I thank the Member for what is an incredibly important question? For many people, bus services, and transport as a whole, is the number one challenge that they face in accessing services, in accessing leisure opportunities and, most significantly of all in many areas, in accessing work. And I've said in this Chamber before that there are some parts of Wales where as many as 20 per cent of people cannot afford or secure a means of getting to their job interviews, never mind getting to work. They are essentially locked out of the workplace. And, therefore, the radical reforms that we are proposing to local bus services are absolutely vital. We've published the White Paper. I know that there has been an excellent response to the consultation, which ended on 27 March. And I would agree entirely with the Member that the focus cannot solely be on urban areas where the mass of population lives, and must equally be on solutions for more rural areas. And I'm pleased that we recently announced four pilot schemes, including one in west Wales, to examine the potential for the deployment of demand-responsive transport - as some have put it, the 'uberisation' of bus services, albeit with an injection of soul. And I think what's going to be important in those pilots is that we're going to be able to test a new means of meeting passenger demand, but a means that is as affordable, potentially even less expensive to the taxpayer in terms of subsidies than conventional forms of bus services and scheduled bus services. Now, whilst this pilot in the west of Wales and the other three pilots are taking place, we are, of course, operating a series of TrawsCymru services, and I was pleased that, just yesterday, we commenced a new TrawsCymru route in west Wales, linking Fishguard with St David's, Haverfordwest, on the T11 route. But I'm keen to make sure that, through reforms, through better using the public subsidy, we see more bus services respond to passenger demands across all communities - urban and rural.
Welsh: A gaf fi ddiolch i'r Aelod am gwestiwn hynod o bwysig? I lawer o bobl, gwasanaethau bysiau, a thrafnidiaeth yn gyffredinol, yw'r her fwyaf y maent yn ei hwynebu o ran cael mynediad at wasanaethau, at gyfleoedd hamdden, ac yn bwysicaf oll mewn sawl ardal, at waith. Ac rwyf wedi dweud yn y Siambr hon o'r blaen fod rhai rhannau o Gymru lle na all cymaint ag 20 y cant o bobl fforddio neu sicrhau ffordd o fynd i'w cyfweliadau am swyddi, heb sôn am fynd i'r gwaith. Maent wedi eu cloi allan o'r gweithle i bob pwrpas. Ac felly, mae'r diwygiadau radical rydym yn eu hargymell i wasanaethau bysiau lleol yn gwbl hanfodol. Rydym wedi cyhoeddi'r Papur Gwyn. Gwn y cafwyd ymateb ardderchog i'r ymgynghoriad a ddaeth i ben ar 27 Mawrth. A buaswn yn cytuno'n llwyr â'r Aelod na ellir canolbwyntio'n unig ar ardaloedd trefol lle mae'r rhan fwyaf o'r boblogaeth yn byw, ac y dylid canolbwyntio lawn cymaint ar atebion ar gyfer ardaloedd mwy gwledig. Ac rwy'n falch ein bod wedi cyhoeddi pedwar cynllun peilot yn ddiweddar, gan gynnwys un yng ngorllewin Cymru, i archwilio'r potensial ar gyfer defnyddio trafnidiaeth seiliedig ar alw - fel y mae rhai wedi'i ddweud, 'ubereiddio' gwasanaethau bysiau, ond gyda chwistrelliad o enaid. A chredaf mai'r hyn a fydd yn bwysig yn y cynlluniau peilot hyn yw y bydd modd inni brofi ffordd newydd o ateb galw teithwyr, ond ffordd sydd yr un mor fforddiadwy, ac o bosibl, hyd yn oed yn llai costus i'r trethdalwr o ran cymorthdaliadau na ffurfiau confensiynol ar wasanaethau bysiau a gwasanaethau bysiau rheolaidd. Nawr, wrth i'r cynllun peilot hwn yng ngorllewin Cymru a'r tri chynllun peilot arall fynd rhagddynt, rydym yn gweithredu cyfres o wasanaethau TrawsCymru, ac rwy'n falch o ddweud ein bod wedi dechrau darparu llwybr TrawsCymru newydd ddoe yng ngorllewin Cymru, i gysylltu Abergwaun â Thyddewi, Hwlffordd, ar lwybr T11. Ond rwy'n awyddus i sicrhau, drwy ddiwygiadau, drwy ddefnyddio'r cymhorthdal cyhoeddus yn well, ein bod yn gweld mwy o wasanaethau bysiau yn ymateb i ofynion teithwyr ym mhob cymuned - rhai trefol a rhai gwledig.