English: I welcome the Minister's statement. I am pleased that this Government has committed to continue to invest in affordable housing, providing £2 billion of funding in this term of office, and its commitment to build more and to build better. You've probably heard me - I think everybody else heard me - talking about the importance of building more council houses, and, yes, I agree with what the Minister just said: we want to build quality. Some of us have read about, though we're probably too young to remember, Parker Morris, but that was council houses being built to a quality that people could get. I've also visited a development where the houses built for the registered social landlord were larger and to a higher quality than those being sold into the private sector. There is nothing wrong with that happening. I think that we ought to say, 'The public sector is a poorer quality should not be the mantra. The public sector should be at least as good, but preferably better.' I am, however, sceptical but convincible about modern methods of construction as a way of quickly increasing affordable housing supply. As the Minister is aware, the new methods of construction in the 1960s did not turn out well: steel houses in Swansea; high alumina cement in Olchfa school; Ronan Point; non-traditional houses in Swansea being demolished in Blaen-y-Maes and Clase and replaced by traditionally built houses by a registered social landlord; and also the tenements, which were more common in Scotland, but we had a few in Wales, and we had one in Swansea. You won't find that anymore either, because that's been knocked down. An awful lot of these very modern, innovative developments of the 1960s are no more. So, why is the Minister convinced that there will be no problems with this generation of non-traditional housing build? Because traditional housing build has got one great advantage: they stay up for a very long time.
Welsh: Rwy'n croesawu datganiad y Gweinidog. Rwy'n falch bod y Llywodraeth hon wedi ymrwymo i barhau i fuddsoddi mewn tai fforddiadwy, gan ddarparu £2 biliwn o gyllid yn y tymor Seneddol hwn, a'i hymrwymiad i adeiladu mwy ac adeiladu'n well. Mae'n debyg eich bod chi wedi fy nghlywed i - rwy'n credu bod pawb arall wedi fy nghlywed i - yn sôn am bwysigrwydd adeiladu mwy o dai cyngor, ac ydw, rwy'n cytuno â'r hyn y mae'r Gweinidog newydd ei ddweud: rydym ni'n dymuno gweld adeiladau o ansawdd. Er ei bod hi'n debygol ein bod ni'n rhy ifanc i gofio, ond mae rhai ohonom wedi darllen am Parker Morris, ond tai cyngor oedd y rheini a oedd yn cael eu hadeiladu i safon y gallai pobl ei gael. Rwyf wedi ymweld hefyd â datblygiad lle'r oedd y tai a adeiladwyd ar gyfer y landlord cymdeithasol cofrestredig yn fwy o faint ac o ansawdd uwch na'r rhai a werthwyd i'r sector preifat. Nid oes dim o'i le ar hynny. Rwy'n credu y dylem ddweud, 'Nid y mantra yw y dylai'r sector cyhoeddus fod o ansawdd is. Fe ddylai'r sector cyhoeddus fod cystal o leiaf, ond yn well os oes modd.' Serch hynny, mae gennyf fy amheuon ond gellir fy argyhoeddi bod dulliau adeiladu modern yn ffordd o gynyddu'r cyflenwad o dai fforddiadwy yn gyflym. Fel y gŵyr y Gweinidog, ni wnaeth y dulliau adeiladu newydd yn y 1960au droi allan yn dda: tai dur yn Abertawe; sment â chyfradd uchel o alwmina yn Ysgol Olchfa; Ronan Point; tai anhraddodiadol yn Abertawe yn cael eu dymchwel ym Mlaen-y-Maes a'r Clâs a'u disodli gan dai a adeiladwyd yn draddodiadol gan landlord cymdeithasol cofrestredig; a'r tenement hefyd, a oedd yn fwy cyffredin yn yr Alban, ond roedd gennym ni ychydig ohonyn nhw yng Nghymru, ac roedd un yn Abertawe. Ni welwch hwnnw erbyn hyn ychwaith, gan iddo gael ei ddymchwel. Mae llawer iawn o'r datblygiadau arloesol, modern iawn hyn yn y 1960au wedi diflannu. Felly, pam mae'r Gweinidog wedi ei darbwyllo na fydd problemau'n codi gyda'r genhedlaeth hon o dai a gaiff eu hadeiladu mewn ffordd anhraddodiadol? Oherwydd mae gan dai traddodiadol un fantais fawr: maen nhw'n sefyll am amser maith iawn.