English: We have to face facts here today. It was all very well and good saying that we are going to take the politics out of this, but we can't take the politics out of a political decision that has been made, and that is to serve a whole system that sees people in poverty, in abject poverty, those people who can't see their way through tomorrow, the next day or the day after - people who turn up in our surgeries or people who write to us saying that they really don't know how they're going to go on. And we can't pretend that that wasn't a political choice. It is a political choice. Austerity is a political choice. It was a choice in two parts, really. The first part was to deprive any money to the public sector, and it is the public sector that was providing the help to those people who found themselves subject to these drastic welfare reforms. So not only did the welfare reforms cut the money that was going into families week in, week out, but the cuts then also into local government, the political decision to remove the funds, which were running at 65 per cent of GDP when you took over and now are 45 per cent of GDP - that was a political choice. So, there is less money all round. It's an absolute failure. It's an absolute disgrace, and I'm pleased that Leanne Wood did highlight the things that she did - the way that people are treated when they can't get to meetings, the sanctions that have been put on them. Who could really think that it is a fair system to put sanctions on people where they have to turn up to beg for their money, and if they can't turn up to beg for their money, then they're not going to get any money? You cannot excuse that as a non-political decision, because it is a political decision. I do want to raise the issue of Age Cymru, the welfare reforms that are yet to come, and I thought I'd focus on that because clearly other people haven't been able to do so. We're talking here about mixed-age couples and their pension credit and housing benefit criteria, which will be changing on 15 May this year, and will be making those households in future as much as £7,000 a year poorer. And these are families that are already poor in their own right. So, what are these changes? Well, at the moment, the oldest person can claim, and does claim, the pension credit allowance, regardless of the age of the younger person in that household. What will happen on 15 May is that both people will have to reach that pensionable age, and let's be clear here: we are talking mostly about women, who will be younger than their men - it's not exclusive; we know that - and we also know that they've increased the retirement age in any case for those women. We also know, and there are examples that have been given here today, that some of those women might have been out of the job market for some time for various reasons. And there is another statistic that is well-known, and that is the PRIME Cymru stat that anybody over the age of 65-plus looking for work is more likely to die before they are going to find that work. And that stat is really, really well known. It's substantiated, it's known, and yet here we have a Government saying to older people, 'You will go out and you will find work, because, if you don't, what you're going to find is that you are going to have to survive on £143 a week, because we've removed your entitlement.' Unless, of course, you happen to split up. If you happen to split up, the older partner will actually get a top-up, and he will have, if it's a he, £163 a week. Now, come on, let's get in the real world here. This is absolutely outrageous. Whilst the Tories recognised and paid some lip service to not affecting older people because they might vote for them, they've even removed those thoughts now. So, we're going to put people, from the cradle to the grave now, it seems, in poverty. It isn't from-the-cradle-to-the-grave social assistance.
Welsh: Mae'n rhaid inni wynebu'r ffeithiau yma heddiw. Un peth oedd dweud y byddem ni'n hepgor y wleidyddiaeth yn hyn, ond peth arall yw hepgor y wleidyddiaeth o benderfyniad gwleidyddol sydd wedi cael ei wneud, sef gwasanaethu system gyfan sy'n gweld pobl mewn tlodi, mewn tlodi mawr, y bobl hynny na all weld eu ffordd trwy yfory, drennydd a thradwy - pobl sy'n troi i fyny yn ein cymorthfeydd neu bobl sy'n ysgrifennu atom i ddweud nad ydyn nhw'n gwybod sut y maen nhw'n mynd i ddal ati. Ac ni allwn honni nad dewis gwleidyddol mo hwnnw. Dewis gwleidyddol yw hwn. Dewis gwleidyddol yw cyni. Yn wir, dewis mewn dwy ran oedd hwn. Y rhan gyntaf oedd amddifadu'r sector cyhoeddus o unrhyw arian, a'r sector cyhoeddus oedd yn darparu'r cymorth i'r bobl hynny sy'n eu cael eu hunain dan ormes y diwygiadau lles llym hyn. Felly nid yn unig y gwelwyd y diwygiadau lles yn torri'r cyllid a oedd yn mynd i deuluoedd wythnos ar ôl wythnos, ond roedd y toriadau wedyn ar Lywodraeth Leol, y penderfyniad gwleidyddol i gael gwared ar y cronfeydd a oedd ar waith yn 65 y cant o Gynnyrch Mewnwladol Crynswth pan wnaethoch chi gymryd yr awenau a bellach ar 45 y cant o Gynnyrch Mewnwladol Crynswth - dewis gwleidyddol oedd hwnnw. Felly, ceir llai o arian i fynd o gwmpas ym mhobman. Mae'n fethiant llwyr. Mae'n warth llwyr, ac rwy'n falch bod Leanne Wood wedi tynnu sylw at yr hyn a wnaeth hi - y ffordd y mae pobl yn cael eu trin pan na allan nhw gyrraedd cyfarfodydd, y cosbedigaethau sydd arnyn nhw. Pwy allai gredu mewn difrif ei bod yn system deg a honno'n cosbi pobl lle mae'n rhaid iddyn nhw fynd i gardota am eu harian, ac os na allan nhw fynd i gardota am eu harian, yna nid oes unrhyw arian iddyn nhw? Ni ellir esgusodi hynny fel penderfyniad anwleidyddol, oherwydd penderfyniad gwleidyddol yw peth fel hyn. Hoffwn i godi mater Age Cymru, a'r diwygiadau lles sydd eto i ddod. Meddyliais y byddwn i'n canolbwyntio ar hwnnw oherwydd mae'n amlwg nad yw pobl eraill wedi gallu gwneud hynny. Rydym ni'n sôn yma am gyplau o oedran cymysg a'r meini prawf credyd pensiwn a budd-dal tai sy'n newid ar 15 Mai eleni, a fydd yn gwneud yr aelwydydd hynny yn y dyfodol cymaint â £7,000 y flwyddyn yn dlotach. A theuluoedd yw'r rhain sydd eisoes yn dlawd eu hunain. Felly, beth yw'r newidiadau hyn? Wel, ar hyn o bryd, gall yr unigolyn hynaf hawlio lwfans credyd pensiwn, ac fe wna hynny waeth beth fo oedran yr unigolyn iau ar yr aelwyd honno. Yr hyn a fydd yn digwydd ar 15 Mai yw y bydd pobl yn gorfod cyrraedd yr oedran pensiwn hwnnw, a gadewch i ni fod yn glir yma: rydym yn sôn am fenywod yn bennaf, a fydd yn iau na'u dynion - nid yw'n hynny'n ddieithriad; gwyddom hynny - a gwyddom hefyd eu bod nhw wedi codi oedran ymddeol y menywod hynny beth bynnag. Gwyddom hefyd, a rhoddwyd enghreifftiau o hynny yma heddiw, y gallai rhai o'r menywod hynny fod allan o waith ers cryn amser am amryw o resymau. Ac mae 'na ystadegyn arall hysbys, a hwnnw yw ystadegyn PRIME Cymru, sef bod rhywun dros 65 oed sy'n chwilio am waith yn fwy tebygol o farw cyn iddyn nhw ddod o hyd i'r gwaith hwnnw. Ac mae'r ystadegyn hwnnw'n hysbys iawn, iawn. Caiff ei gadarnhau, mae'n hysbys, ac eto i gyd mae gennym ni Lywodraeth yma sy'n dweud wrth bobl hŷn, 'Rhaid i chi fynd allan a chwilio am waith, oherwydd, os na wnewch chi hynny, fe welwch y bydd raid ichi fyw ar £143 yr wythnos, oherwydd rydym wedi dileu eich hawliau.' Oni bai, wrth gwrs, eich bod yn digwydd gwahanu. Pe byddech yn digwydd gwahanu, caiff y partner hŷn gynnydd, a bydd yn cael £163 yr wythnos, os yw'n ddyn. Nawr, dewch ymlaen, gadewch inni fyw yn y byd go iawn yma. Mae hyn yn gwbl warthus. Er bod y Torïaid wedi cydnabod ac wedi esgus cefnogi'r syniad o beidio ag effeithio ar bobl hŷn oherwydd eu bod eisiau eu pleidleisiau, maent bellach wedi diarddel y syniadau hynny, hyd yn oed. Felly, rydym yn mynd i roi pobl, o'r crud i'r bedd nawr, mae'n debyg, mewn tlodi. Nid cymorth cymdeithasol o'r crud i'r bedd mo hyn.