English: I'm more than happy to stand here and support this Bill today, and I'd like to thank my colleague Sam Rowlands for bringing it to the floor. I was delighted to hear the positivity coming from across the Chamber from Plaid Cymru as well. I was delighted when I saw that this Bill was drawn, as I know, just like myself, that the Member for North Wales is passionate about ensuring that every child and young person has this opportunity - I certainly did, when I was younger - to participate in a week-long residential outdoor education visit at some point during their school journey, ensuring that they too can learn new skills and maybe an appreciation for the outdoors, as well as benefiting from it in terms of physical exercise. It is essential that this Welsh Government and governments that follow give the sort of ring-fenced money to deliver this aim, so it ensures that our local authorities and schools are able to deliver these exciting experiences for our youngsters, even when we face tough economic times. The benefits of residential outdoor education visits for young people are clear for all to see. As well as the obvious enjoyment on the faces of our young people, they are a way to bond with their peers, to share experiences with friends, to promote healthier lifestyles, to improve mental health and, often, to improve educational outcomes. It isn't right that young people from less affluent areas miss out on these opportunities, like in many parts of my south-east Wales region, and it shouldn't depend on where you live or what school you go to. Many of us, like myself, often take for granted the opportunities and experiences that we had growing up, when many children and young people across Wales haven't had these same experiences. This Bill goes a long way to levelling that playing field across Wales, ensuring equality of opportunity, ensuring we don't have a postcode lottery, council by council, to have experiences like this. As Sam Rowlands said, if every child were to be fully funded to partake in these activities, initial estimates put the cost between £10 million to £15 million, less than 0.06 per cent of the Welsh Government's budget, although you predict it to be more, Minister. It certainly seems to me that it would be a relatively small price to pay for the education and well-being outcomes for our children that would result from it. Obviously this money needs to come from the centre, and not be put on our local authorities. But we have seen, particularly post pandemic, the investment in outdoor facilities and outdoor spaces, and the increase in outdoor learning, and schools using those learning environments far more now, and the benefits that they have had across Wales. As shadow education Minister, I am pleased to see ideas like this coming to the Senedd, which enhance what is already there, and I'd like to thank Sam Rowlands for presenting this Bill today. I put my support fully behind it. I now hope that the Chamber can work constructively on the Bill to ensure that young people don't miss out. I just want to make one final point, actually. I just wanted to make sure that it's made clear that this is an out-of-school opportunity that Sam is proposing, not in-school, as you outlined, Minister. Both are important, and, as Huw quite rightly said, it's a deeper long-lasting experience that is being proposed here. I urge you all today to support this motion and the Bill that Sam has brought forward. Thank you.
Welsh: Rwy'n fwy na pharod i sefyll yma a chefnogi'r Bil hwn heddiw, a hoffwn ddiolch i fy nghyd-Aelod Sam Rowlands am ei gyflwyno. Roeddwn wrth fy modd yn clywed agwedd gadarnhaol Plaid Cymru ar draws y Siambr hefyd. Roeddwn wrth fy modd pan welais fod y Bil hwn wedi'i lunio, oherwydd gwn fod yr Aelod dros Ogledd Cymru yn angerddol, fel finnau, ynglŷn â sicrhau bod pob plentyn a pherson ifanc yn cael y cyfle hwn - yn sicr fe gefais i'r cyfle pan oeddwn i'n iau - i gymryd rhan mewn ymweliad preswyl addysg awyr agored wythnos o hyd ar ryw adeg yn ystod eu cyfnod yn yr ysgol, gan sicrhau eu bod hwythau hefyd yn gallu dysgu sgiliau newydd a gwerthfawrogiad o'r awyr agored efallai, yn ogystal â chael budd ohono o ran ymarfer corff. Mae'n hanfodol fod Llywodraeth Cymru a llywodraethau i ddilyn yn neilltuo arian i gyflawni'r nod hwn, fel y gellir sicrhau bod ein hawdurdodau lleol a'n hysgolion yn gallu cyflwyno'r profiadau cyffrous hyn i'n pobl ifanc, hyd yn oed pan ydym yn wynebu amseroedd economaidd anodd. Mae manteision ymweliadau preswyl addysg awyr agored i bobl ifanc yn glir i bawb eu gweld. Yn ogystal â'r mwynhad amlwg ar wynebau ein pobl ifanc, maent yn ffordd o greu perthynas agosach â'u cyfoedion, rhannu profiadau gyda ffrindiau, hyrwyddo ffyrdd iachach o fyw, gwella iechyd meddwl, a gwella canlyniadau addysgol yn aml. Nid yw'n iawn fod pobl ifanc o ardaloedd llai cefnog yn cael eu hamddifadu o'r cyfleoedd hyn, fel sy'n digwydd mewn sawl rhan o fy rhanbarth yn ne-ddwyrain Cymru, ac ni ddylai ddibynnu ar ble' rydych yn byw na pha ysgol rydych yn ei mynychu. Mae llawer ohonom, fel fi, yn aml yn cymryd y cyfleoedd a'r profiadau a gawsom wrth dyfu i fyny yn ganiataol, pan fo llawer o blant a phobl ifanc ledled Cymru heb gael yr un profiadau. Mae'r Bil yn gwneud llawer i sicrhau tegwch ledled Cymru, gan sicrhau cyfle cyfartal, a gwneud yn siŵr nad oes gennym loteri cod post rhwng un cyngor a'r llall i gael profiadau fel hyn. Fel y dywedodd Sam Rowlands, pe bai pob plentyn yn cael ei ariannu'n llawn i gymryd rhan yn y gweithgareddau hyn, roedd yr amcangyfrifon cychwynnol o'r gost rhwng £10 miliwn a £15 miliwn, llai na 0.06 y cant o gyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru, er eich bod yn rhagweld y bydd yn fwy, Weinidog. Yn sicr, mae'n ymddangos i mi mai pris cymharol fach fyddai hynny i'w dalu am y canlyniadau addysg a llesiant i'n plant a fyddai'n deillio ohono. Yn amlwg, mae angen i'r arian ddod o'r canol, ac ni ddylai fod yn gyfrifoldeb i'n hawdurdodau lleol. Ond yn enwedig ar ôl y pandemig, gwelsom y buddsoddiad mewn cyfleusterau awyr agored a mannau awyr agored, a'r cynnydd mewn dysgu awyr agored, a'r ffaith bod ysgolion yn defnyddio'r amgylcheddau dysgu hynny i raddau llawer mwy erbyn hyn, a'r manteision y maent wedi'u creu ledled Cymru. Fel Gweinidog addysg yr wrthblaid, rwy'n falch o weld syniadau fel hyn yn dod i'r Senedd, gan wella'r hyn sydd yno eisoes, a hoffwn ddiolch i Sam Rowlands am gyflwyno'r Bil hwn heddiw. Rwy'n ei gefnogi'n llawn. Rwy'n gobeithio y gall y Siambr weithio'n adeiladol ar y Bil i sicrhau nad yw pobl ifanc yn cael eu hamddifadu. Rwyf eisiau gwneud un pwynt terfynol. Roeddwn eisiau gwneud yn siŵr ei bod yn glir i bawb mai cyfle y tu allan i'r ysgol y mae Sam yn ei gynnig, nid cyfle yn yr ysgol, fel y gwnaethoch chi ei amlinellu, Weinidog. Mae'r ddau'n bwysig, ac fel y dywedodd Huw yn gwbl briodol, profiad hirhoedlog dyfnach sy'n cael ei gynnig yma. Rwy'n eich annog chi i gyd heddiw i gefnogi'r cynnig hwn a'r Bil y mae Sam wedi'i gyflwyno. Diolch.