English: Thank you, Presiding Officer. I'd like to thank Plaid Cymru for putting the motion before us this afternoon to debate. I speak to the amendment in Darren Millar's name, amendment 3, which highlights the additional resources that are being made available to the Welsh Government via its part in the union. Five billion pounds of resource so far, I might add, is a significant financial contribution to the effort to get on top of COVID and support the economy across the length and breadth of Wales, and I would suggest that being part of that union has enabled us to build this balance sheet that has looked at the pandemic and made the Welsh public realise the strength of the union balance sheet when it's called on to support all parts of the union in the face of this pandemic that is still unfolding before us. I'd also identify with the comments from the opening speaker that called for additional resources for the Cwm Taf health board area, which our amendment speaks to. As a regional Member for South Wales Central, every Thursday morning I attend a briefing, via the Zoom session, over what is unfolding in the Cwm Taf health board area, which, for those who are uninitiated, covers from Merthyr right the way through the RCT area and stretches down to Bridgend county borough now. I have to say, when you hear the grim statistics of, sadly, the hospital-acquired infections and the deaths within hospitals - and it is worth repeating them within this forum: the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend sadly, tragically, has lost 57 individuals, the Royal Glamorgan has lost 61, and Prince Charles in Merthyr, 34. That, just on the health front, shows the impact that COVID has had within the hospital setting, leave alone what is going on in the community setting, where nearly 9,000 people have been infected with COVID in the Cwm Taf health board area. It is right to say, irrespective of what people might think of the tiered system that was adopted in England, there were additional resources attached to that tiered system that focused on the specific restrictions that were placed in those areas, unlike here in Wales, where counties were put under restriction with no additional financial support to soften the blows, economically, that were being inflicted on them with those restrictions. And I do think that the Welsh Government, with £1.6 billion sitting in its budget unspent from the £5 billion consequential, does need to look at the higher incidence of infections in communities that already have high levels of poverty and real challenges within those communities, and seek to address that by using some of that £1.6 billion to help the economic revival and the post-COVID build back that our amendment speaks to. Because I do believe that the fire power is there, and the Welsh Government does need to respond, especially when you look at the numbers, as I've read out, with the tragic death count in hospitals in that particular area, but also the infection rate in the Cwm Taf health board area, which speaks for itself. It's going to be a long haul, but we can start to rebuild, and we can, without a shadow of a doubt - I'm not trying to grab a soundbite - rebuild far better than maybe when we went into this crisis, with the right imagination and the right political will here. I also think it's really important that, with the self-isolation payments that have been talked of coming from the Welsh Government, they are concurrent with other areas of the United Kingdom and backdated to 28 September, rather than, as the Government have indicated here, they'll only be paid to 22 October. I heard what the First Minister said yesterday in First Minister's questions, when he talked about that it's important that the systems reflect measures put in place to protect against fraud, and we all subscribe to that; we want the best value for the public pound. But it is vital that, when these measures are in place, that £500 is available from when those measures were brought into place. And if other parts of the United Kingdom are able to develop the systems - confidently develop those systems - that can deliver that support back to the end of September, rather than the end of October, I think that we should be calling on the Welsh Government to do that, and that is what our motion identifies with - our amendment, sorry, to the motion identifies with - today. It also, in the amendment, touches on the hospital waiting times. And the figures are out tomorrow, I believe, that will give us a real reflection of how those waiting times are looking in Wales. But we do know, from freedom of information requests from the BBC and studies done by Macmillan cancer charity, for example, that, when it comes to waiting times, general waiting times, there are approximately 49,000 people on a waiting list here in Wales, and, when it comes to cancer, Macmillan identified potentially up to 2,000 premature deaths because people haven't been able to get those cancer appointments and those cancer treatments that are so critical to either putting the cancer into remission, or making sure that valuable time is bought for that cancer patient. And this is a vital area that we need to be developing in conjunction with the royal colleges, and developing the COVID-free concept within our hospitals and hospital settings, so that we can strike the balance between the health service not just being a COVID health service, but a health service that does what it is designed to do, which is to meet the general health requirements of the population at large. And so I do hope that the amendment will gain support here this evening in the Senedd, because I do think it adds to the motion that is before us for debate and I'd urge the Senedd to support the amendment when it's put to the vote.
Welsh: Diolch, Lywydd. Hoffwn ddiolch i Blaid Cymru am roi'r cynnig ger ein bron y prynhawn yma i'w drafod. Siaradaf am y gwelliant yn enw Darren Millar, gwelliant 3, sy'n tynnu sylw at yr adnoddau ychwanegol sy'n cael eu darparu i Lywodraeth Cymru drwy ei rhan yn yr undeb. Gallwn ychwanegu fod £5 biliwn o adnoddau hyd yma yn gyfraniad ariannol sylweddol i'r ymdrech i drechu COVID a chefnogi'r economi ar hyd a lled Cymru, a byddwn yn awgrymu bod bod yn rhan o'r undeb hwnnw wedi ein galluogi i adeiladu'r fantolen hon sydd wedi edrych ar y pandemig ac wedi gwneud i'r cyhoedd yng Nghymru sylweddoli pa mor gryf yw mantolen yr undeb pan elwir arni i gefnogi pob rhan o'r undeb yn wyneb y pandemig sy'n dal i ddatblygu o flaen ein llygaid. Byddwn hefyd yn uniaethu â sylwadau'r siaradwr agoriadol a oedd yn galw am adnoddau ychwanegol ar gyfer ardal bwrdd iechyd Cwm Taf, fel sydd yn ein gwelliant. Fel Aelod rhanbarthol dros Ganol De Cymru, bob bore dydd Iau byddaf yn mynychu sesiwn friffio, drwy sesiwn Zoom, ynglŷn â'r hyn sy'n datblygu yn ardal bwrdd iechyd Cwm Taf, sydd, i'r rhai nad ydynt yn gwybod, yn ymestyn o Ferthyr Tudful drwy ardal Rhondda Cynon Taf ac i lawr i fwrdeistref sirol Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr yn awr. Rhaid i mi ddweud, pan glywch ystadegau difrifol, yn anffodus, yr heintiau a ddaliwyd mewn ysbytai a'r marwolaethau mewn ysbytai - ac mae'n werth eu hailadrodd yn y fforwm hwn: mae Ysbyty Tywysoges Cymru ym Mhen-y-bont ar Ogwr, yn anffodus, wedi colli 57 o bobl, mae Ysbyty Brenhinol Morgannwg wedi colli 61, ac Ysbyty'r Tywysog Siarl ym Merthyr Tudful wedi colli 34. Mae hynny, ar yr ochr iechyd yn unig, yn dangos yr effaith y mae COVID wedi'i chael mewn ysbytai, heb sôn yr hyn sy'n digwydd yn y gymuned, lle mae bron i 9,000 o bobl wedi'u heintio â COVID yn ardal bwrdd iechyd Cwm Taf. Beth bynnag fyddai barn pobl am y system haenog a fabwysiadwyd yn Lloegr, mae'n iawn dweud bod adnoddau ychwanegol ynghlwm wrth y system haenog honno a ganolbwyntiai ar y cyfyngiadau penodol a roddwyd ar waith yn yr ardaloedd hynny, yn wahanol i'r fan hon yng Nghymru, lle cafodd siroedd eu rhoi dan gyfyngiadau heb unrhyw gymorth ariannol ychwanegol i leddfu'r ergydion, yn economaidd, a ddeilliai o'r cyfyngiadau hynny. A chredaf fod angen i Lywodraeth Cymru, gyda £1.6 biliwn yn ei chyllideb heb ei wario o'r swm canlyniadol o £5 biliwn, edrych ar y nifer uwch o achosion mewn cymunedau sydd eisoes â lefelau uchel o dlodi a heriau gwirioneddol yn y cymunedau hynny, a cheisio mynd i'r afael â hynny drwy ddefnyddio rhywfaint o'r £1.6 biliwn hwnnw i helpu'r adfywiad economaidd a'r adeiladu nôl ar ôl COVID y mae ein gwelliant yn siarad amdano. Oherwydd rwy'n credu bod y pŵer yno, ac mae angen i Lywodraeth Cymru ymateb, yn enwedig pan edrychwch ar y niferoedd, fel rwyf wedi'u darllen, gyda'r nifer drasig o farwolaethau mewn ysbytai yn yr ardal benodol honno, ond hefyd y gyfradd heintio yn ardal bwrdd iechyd Cwm Taf, sy'n siarad drosti'i hun. Mae'n mynd i fod yn daith hir, ond gallwn ddechrau ailadeiladu, a gallwn, heb unrhyw amheuaeth - nid wyf yn ceisio bachu'r ymadrodd - ailadeiladu'n llawer gwell na phan aethom i mewn i'r argyfwng hwn o bosibl, gyda'r dychymyg cywir a'r ewyllys wleidyddol gywir yma. Credaf hefyd, gyda'r taliadau hunanynysu y soniwyd eu bod yn dod gan Lywodraeth Cymru, ei bod yn bwysig eu bod yn cyd-fynd ag ardaloedd eraill o'r Deyrnas Unedig ac wedi'u hôl-ddyddio i 28 Medi, yn hytrach na dim ond 22 Hydref, fel y mae'r Llywodraeth wedi nodi yma. Clywais yr hyn a ddywedodd y Prif Weinidog ddoe yn y cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog, pan soniodd pam ei bod yn bwysig i'r systemau adlewyrchu mesurau a roddwyd ar waith i ddiogelu rhag twyll, ac rydym i gyd yn cytuno â hynny; rydym am gael y gwerth gorau am y bunt gyhoeddus. Ond mae'n hanfodol, pan fydd y mesurau hyn ar waith, fod £500 ar gael o'r adeg y daethpwyd â'r mesurau hynny i rym. Ac os gall rhannau eraill o'r Deyrnas Unedig ddatblygu'r systemau - datblygu'r systemau hynny'n hyderus - a all ddarparu'r gefnogaeth honno'n ôl tan ddiwedd mis Medi, yn hytrach na diwedd mis Hydref, credaf y dylem fod yn galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru i wneud hynny, a dyna mae ein cynnig yn galw amdano - ein gwelliant i'r cynnig, mae'n ddrwg gennyf - heddiw. Mae'r gwelliant hefyd yn cyffwrdd ag amseroedd aros ysbytai. Ac mae'r ffigurau'n cael eu cyhoeddi yfory, rwy'n credu, a fydd yn rhoi darlun go iawn inni o sut olwg sydd ar yr amseroedd aros hynny yng Nghymru. Ond rydym yn gwybod, o geisiadau rhyddid gwybodaeth gan y BBC ac astudiaethau a wnaed gan elusen canser Macmillan, er enghraifft, o ran amseroedd aros, amseroedd aros cyffredinol, fod tua 49,000 o bobl ar restr aros yma yng Nghymru, ac mewn perthynas â chanser, nododd Macmillan y perygl o hyd at 2,000 o farwolaethau cynamserol am nad yw pobl wedi gallu cael yr apwyntiadau canser a'r triniaethau canser sydd mor hanfodol naill ai i sicrhau gwellhad o ganser neu sicrhau bod amser gwerthfawr yn cael ei brynu ar gyfer y claf canser hwnnw. Ac mae hwn yn faes hanfodol y mae angen inni fod yn ei ddatblygu ar y cyd â'r colegau brenhinol, a datblygu'r cysyniad o fannau rhydd o COVID yn ein hysbytai a'n lleoliadau ysbyty, fel y gallwn daro'r cydbwysedd rhwng y gwasanaeth iechyd fel gwasanaeth iechyd COVID, ond fel gwasanaeth iechyd sy'n gwneud yr hyn y mae wedi'i gynllunio i'w wneud, sef diwallu anghenion iechyd cyffredinol y boblogaeth. Ac felly rwy'n gobeithio y bydd y gwelliant yn cael cefnogaeth yma heno yn y Senedd, oherwydd rwy'n credu ei fod yn ychwanegu at y cynnig sydd ger ein bron i'w drafod a hoffwn annog y Senedd i gefnogi'r gwelliant pan gynhelir y bleidlais.