English: Thank you, Chair. I move amendment 10. Each and every one of us is very much aware of the exceptionally difficult settlement that local authorities are likely to get next year. You need only look at the news streams today to see the warnings about the implications for jobs, for school funding, and so on, for local authorities. Even a Minister of this Government is lobbying her own Government now, urging more money for local authorities and warning about the outcomes of this. This pressure on local authority resources is a consistent theme that we as a committee have grappled with in the course of our work since I've been a member over the past two and a half years. At the moment, we are in the middle of inquiry looking at school funding. We have consistently raised concerns about the impact of bringing a number of financial sources together, reducing the overall pot. Inevitably, that is going to have an impact on outcomes. When we scrutinised the Bill - as it was, now and Act - on additional learning needs, it was emphasised at that point that there was concern that many additional requirements and duties were being placed on local authorities and that it was important that resources should follow. I'm very pleased, therefore, that this committee did agree to recommendation 20 in the report on this Bill - that we believe that there should be assurances of funding for any additional duties and responsibilities placed on local authorities. We are placing these additional responsibilities and expectations upon them at a time when they are cutting services and receiving less funding. It's a simple amendment in that sense, in my view at least, because without that assurance that any additional requirements will be funded, then what expectation can there be that they can deliver the offer with the confidence required and to deliver this childcare offer without looking to make cuts elsewhere?
Welsh: Diolch yn fawr, Cadeirydd. Rwy'n cynnig gwelliant 10. Mae pob un ohonom ni, rwy'n siŵr, yn ingol ymwybodol o'r setliad hynod anodd mae awdurdodau lleol, mae'n debyg, yn mynd i gael y flwyddyn nesaf. Nid oes dim ond angen edrych ar y ffrydiau newyddion heddiw i weld y rhybuddion ynglŷn â goblygiadau i swyddi, i gyllido ysgolion, ac yn y blaen, o safbwynt awdurdodau lleol. Mae hyd yn oed Gweinidog o'r Llywodraeth yma yn lobïo ei Llywodraeth ei hunan nawr i erfyn am ragor o bres i awdurdodau lleol ac yn rhybuddio am y canlyniadau. Mae'r pwysau yma ar adnoddau awdurdodau lleol yn thema gyson rydym ni fel pwyllgor wedi ymrafael â hi yng nghwrs ein gwaith ni ers i mi fod yn aelod dros y ddwy flynedd a hanner diwethaf. Rydym ni ar hyn o bryd ynghanol ymchwiliad yn edrych ar ariannu ysgolion. Rydym ni'n gyson wedi codi gofidiau ynglŷn ag effaith dod â nifer o ffynonellau ariannu at ei gilydd, lleihau y pot cyfan. Yn anochel, mae hynny'n mynd i gael effaith ar ganlyniadau. Pan fuom ni'n craffu ar y Bil - fel yr oedd e; Deddf erbyn hyn - anghenion dysgu ychwanegol, fe bwysleisiwyd bryd hynny gonsýrn bod yna nifer o ofynion a dyletswyddau ychwanegol yn cael eu rhoi ar awdurdodau lleol a'i bod hi'n bwysig bod yna adnoddau y tu ôl i hynny. Rwy'n hynod o falch felly fod y pwyllgor yma wedi cytuno ar argymhelliad 20 yn yr adroddiad ar y Bil yma - ein bod ni'n credu y dylai fod yna sicrwydd o ariannu i unrhyw ddyletswyddau a disgwyliadau ychwanegol sydd yn cael eu rhoi ar awdurdodau lleol. Rydym ni'n rhoi y dyletswyddau a'r disgwyliadau ychwanegol yna arnyn nhw ar yr adeg lle, wrth gwrs, maen nhw'n torri gwasanaethau ac yn derbyn llai o arian ar yr un pryd. Mae'n welliant syml yn yr ystyr hynny, yn fy marn i, oherwydd heb y sicrwydd yma y bydd unrhyw ofyniadau ychwanegol yn cael eu hariannu, yna pa ddisgwyl sydd yna y medran nhw ddelifro'r cynnig gyda'r hyder sydd ei angen, ac i ddelifro'r cynnig gofal plant yma heb o bosibl edrych i dorri yn rhywle arall?