English: Thank you, Presiding Officer. We will hear much today, I suspect, about Rhodri as one of the 'gwerin' - one of us - and that is, was, indisputably true. But we must also recognise that he stood out and he stood taller than us as well - as a politician, as a leader, as a father figure and friend to those of us from the class of 1999 and in the communities across Wales. Now, many of the tributes have talked about his personality as being distinct from his skills as a politician. I think that they were very much one and the same. Robert Kennedy described politics as the most honourable profession. I know that Rhodri would have agreed - actually, second only perhaps to playing fly half for Wales - but to be a politician, committed to ideals and to values, and representing community and country is an honourable profession that one should not apologise for. There was great honour in the leadership that he brought to this place, and to the very notion of Welsh self-government. Those of us here back in those awkward few months and years of Welsh democracy, we will always remember and be thankful for the skill and the steadiness that he brought to this institution and to the role of First Minister. Those skills came from his very nature as a person. Everyone here will have a story or two, or three, or four, or five, about a Rhodri anecdote, but it will never be as many as the stories, facts and tales that Rhodri had about every village, town, rugby team, sporting occasion - he was always great company. He showed me great professional and personal kindness. As we've already heard, he was an intensely proud family man, but he was also interested in your family. He always had time to ask me about my girls, and just like Julia, my husband, Richard, is often a reluctant participant in some of the formal events in which I demand his presence. But Rhodri always had time for him, always wanting to know about the cattle and the lambing season. When my mother passed away, he wrote not only to me but he wrote to my late father. My father couldn't believe that the First Minister of Wales had taken the time to write to him about his loss. He was a decent, decent man. On behalf of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, me personally and my family, my greatest sympathy, Julie, to you and to yours.
Welsh: Diolch i chi, Llywydd. Byddwn yn clywed llawer heddiw, mi gredaf, am Rhodri fel un o'r 'werin' - un ohonom ni - ac mae hynny, roedd hynny, wir yn ddiamau. Ond mae'n rhaid i ni gydnabod hefyd ei fod yn sefyll allan ac yn sefyll yn dalach na ni hefyd - fel gwleidydd, fel arweinydd, fel tad a chyfaill i'r rhai ohonom o ddosbarth 1999 ac yn y cymunedau ledled Cymru. Nawr, mae llawer o'r teyrngedau wedi sôn am ei bersonoliaeth fel bod ar wahân i'w sgiliau fel gwleidydd. Yn fy marn i, cyfanrwydd oedd hynny i raddau helaeth iawn. Disgrifiodd Robert Kennedy wleidyddiaeth fel y proffesiwn mwyaf anrhydeddus. Gwn y byddai Rhodri wedi cytuno - mewn gwirionedd, yn ail, yn unig efallai i chwarae fel maswr dros Gymru - ond mae bod yn wleidydd, gan fod wedi ymrwymo i ddelfrydau a gwerthoedd, a chynrychioli cymuned a gwlad yn broffesiwn anrhydeddus na ddylai neb ymddiheuro amdano. Roedd anrhydedd mawr yn yr arweinyddiaeth a gyflwynodd i'r lle hwn, ac i holl ystyr hunan-lywodraeth Cymru. Bydd y rhai ohonom a oedd yma yn ôl yn yr ychydig fisoedd a blynyddoedd lletchwith hynny yn nemocratiaeth Cymru, bob amser yn cofio ac yn ddiolchgar am y medrusrwydd a'r cadernid a gyflwynodd Rhodri i'r sefydliad hwn ac i swydd y Prif Weinidog. Daeth y sgiliau hynny o'i natur fel dyn. Bydd gan bawb ei stori neu ddwy, neu dair, neu bedair neu bump, am Rhodri mewn rhyw gyswllt, ond ni fydd cymaint o'r rheiny â'r straeon, y ffeithiau a'r chwedlau a oedd gan Rhodri ei hun am bob pentref, tref, tîm rygbi, digwyddiad chwaraeon - roedd bob amser yn gwmni gwych. Dangosodd garedigrwydd proffesiynol a phersonol mawr iawn tuag ataf i. Fel yr ydym wedi ei glywed yn barod, roedd yn ddyn hynod falch o'i deulu, ond yr oedd ganddo ddiddordeb hefyd yn eich teulu chi. Roedd ganddo bob tro yr amser i ofyn i mi am fy merched, ac yn union fel Julia, mae fy ngŵr innau, Richard, yn aml yn cymryd rhan anfoddog yn rhai o'r digwyddiadau ffurfiol yr wyf yn mynnu ei fod yn bresenol ynddynt. Ond roedd Rhodri bob amser yn barod i sgwrsio ag yntau hefyd, yn awyddus i wybod am y gwartheg a'r tymor wyna. Pan fu farw fy mam, ysgrifennodd nid yn unig ataf i, ond ysgrifennodd at fy niweddar dad hefyd. Ni allai fy nhad gredu bod Prif Weinidog Cymru wedi rhoi o'i amser i ysgrifennu ato ef am ei golled. Yr oedd yn ddyn graslon, graslon iawn. Ar ran Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru, fy hunan yn bersonol a'm teulu, rwy'n estyn fy nghydymdeimlad dwysaf, Julie, i chi a'ch teulu.