English: Can I also pay tribute to the work that you've done long before I came here to this Senedd? You'll be missed very much indeed, and your presence and your legacy is very, very strong indeed, so thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'm delighted to speak in this debate, the last substantive debate before we close this session, and in doing so, it's worth looking back, because for some people, it's a glass half empty; for some people, there's no glass to hold anything at all. So, I think it's worth looking at some track record issues here, and the track record of Labour in Government here over the last five years in the face of coming off a decade and more of austerity, and it can't be dismissed, because Wales was consistently undersold by the UK Government over that decade and left with a begging bowl out. In the face as well of the European transition, where so much effort, so much resource was put into that, rather than focusing on the future of Wales, and also facing up to those ever-present challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, and also, of course, the unprecedented challenge for any Government whatsoever of the tragedy of COVID - 19. But even despite that, during this period, we've delivered on all - all - of our Welsh Government, Welsh Labour pledges. We delivered that unprecedented ambitious pledge on the childcare offer for free early education and childcare, and speech and language therapy and so on for children aged three and four, to all families, working families, for 48 weeks of the year, and we delivered it to 14,500 children and their families in January 2020. We delivered the tax cuts for all small businesses in Wales, with the small business rates relief scheme in April, 2018; over half of all businesses in Wales now pay no rates at all, and many of them I speak to in my own constituency. We delivered those 100,000 quality apprenticeships for all ages, and within those apprenticeships - we met the target, by the way, in 2020 - nearly 60 per cent of those apprenticeships were undertaken by people aged 25 and over as well, giving them a second chance there in their careers and in their jobs and in life, and we delivered the new treatment fund for life-threatening illnesses. Before the new treatment fund, it used to take 90 days to get newly approved medicines and treatments available on the NHS. It now takes just 13 days - 13 days. And of course, we doubled the capital limit on those going into residential care: we doubled it, in fact, two years earlier than planned. It's the most generous scheme in the UK, so people can now keep, when they go into residential care, up to £50,000 of their hard-earned earnings, and I know that matters greatly to those people who live in my constituency. And of course, it's not just the bricks and mortar that we've invested in in school standards, we delivered on our pledge to put £100 million into improving school standards, not just bricks and mortar, but reducing infant class sizes, and putting in place the National Academy for Educational Leadership, which some of my former headteachers here locally are actually now at the head of, and improving Welsh language teaching and learning. But it's not just that, Deputy Presiding Officer. Despite the challenges of coming in after austerity, despite the challenges of Brexit, despite all those other challenges we've had, we've supported more than 36,000 children in disadvantaged areas every year through our Flying Start programme. Yes, that's the Flying Start programme that they cut and hacked at within England. We kept it going and we've kept investment going. We've provided childcare for -
Welsh: A gaf fi hefyd dalu teyrnged i'r gwaith rydych wedi'i wneud ymhell cyn imi ddod yma i'r Senedd hon? Fe welir eich colli'n fawr iawn, ac mae eich presenoldeb a'ch gwaddol yn gadarn iawn wir, felly diolch yn fawr iawn, Ddirprwy Lywydd. Rwy'n falch iawn o siarad yn y ddadl hon, y ddadl lawn olaf cyn inni gau'r sesiwn hon, ac wrth wneud hynny, mae'n werth edrych yn ôl, oherwydd i rai pobl, mae'n wydr hanner gwag; i rai pobl, nid oes gwydr i ddal unrhyw beth o gwbl. Felly, rwy'n credu ei bod yn werth edrych ar rai pethau yma o ran cyflawniad, a chyflawniad Llafur mewn Llywodraeth yma dros y pum mlynedd diwethaf yn dilyn degawd a mwy o gyni, ac ni ellir ei ddiystyru, oherwydd cafodd Cymru ei gwerthu am lai na'i gwerth yn gyson gan Lywodraeth y DU dros y degawd hwnnw a'i throi allan i gardota. Yn wyneb y cyfnod pontio Ewropeaidd, rhoddwyd cymaint o ymdrech, cymaint o adnoddau tuag at hynny, yn hytrach na chanolbwyntio ar ddyfodol Cymru, a wynebu'r heriau sydd bob amser yn bresennol, sef newid hinsawdd a cholli bioamrywiaeth, a hefyd, wrth gwrs, yr her na welodd unrhyw Lywodraeth o gwbl mo'i thebyg sef trychineb COVID - 19. Ond er gwaethaf hynny hyd yn oed, yn ystod y cyfnod hwn, rydym wedi cyflawni pob un - pob un - o'n haddewidion fel Llywodraeth Cymru, Llafur Cymru. Gwnaethom gyflawni'r addewid uchelgeisiol digynsail ar y cynnig gofal plant ar gyfer addysg gynnar a gofal plant am ddim, a therapi lleferydd ac iaith ac yn y blaen i blant tair a phedair oed, i bob teulu, teuluoedd sy'n gweithio, am 48 wythnos o'r flwyddyn, ac fe'i cyflwynwyd i 14,500 o blant a'u teuluoedd ym mis Ionawr 2020. Gwnaethom gyflawni'r toriadau treth i bob busnes bach yng Nghymru, gyda'r cynllun rhyddhad ardrethi i fusnesau bach ym mis Ebrill 2018; nid yw dros hanner yr holl fusnesau yng Nghymru bellach yn talu unrhyw ardrethi o gwbl, ac rwy'n siarad â llawer ohonynt yn fy etholaeth. Gwnaethom ddarparu 100,000 o brentisiaethau o safon ar gyfer pob oedran, ac o fewn y prentisiaethau hynny - cyraeddasom y targed yn 2020, gyda llaw - roedd bron i 60 y cant o'r prentisiaethau'n cael eu cyflawni gan bobl 25 oed a throsodd, gan roi ail gyfle iddynt yn eu gyrfaoedd ac yn eu swyddi ac mewn bywyd, a gwnaethom gyflwyno'r gronfa triniaethau newydd ar gyfer afiechydon sy'n bygwth bywyd. Cyn y gronfa triniaethau newydd, arferai gymryd 90 diwrnod i sicrhau bod meddyginiaethau a thriniaethau newydd eu cymeradwyo ar gael gan y GIG. Dim ond 13 diwrnod y mae'n ei gymryd bellach - 13 diwrnod. Ac wrth gwrs, gwnaethom ddyblu'r terfyn cyfalaf i'r rhai sy'n mynd i ofal preswyl: fe'i dyblwyd, mewn gwirionedd, ddwy flynedd yn gynharach na'r disgwyl. Dyma'r cynllun mwyaf hael yn y DU, felly pan fyddant yn mynd i ofal preswyl, bellach gall pobl gadw hyd at £50,000 o'u henillion haeddiannol, a gwn fod hynny'n bwysig iawn i'r bobl sy'n byw yn fy etholaeth. Ac wrth gwrs, o ran safonau ysgolion rydym wedi buddsoddi mewn mwy na brics a'r morter yn unig, gwnaethom gyflawni ein haddewid i roi £100 miliwn tuag at wella safonau ysgolion, nid brics a morter yn unig, ond lleihau maint dosbarthiadau babanod, a sefydlu'r Academi Genedlaethol ar gyfer Arweinyddiaeth Addysgol, a arweinir erbyn hyn gan rai o fy nghyn-benaethiaid yma'n lleol, a gwella addysgu a dysgu Cymraeg. Ond nid hynny'n unig, Ddirprwy Lywydd. Er gwaethaf yr heriau o ddod i mewn ar ôl cyni, er gwaethaf heriau Brexit, er gwaethaf yr holl heriau eraill a gawsom, rydym wedi cefnogi mwy na 36,000 o blant mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig bob blwyddyn drwy ein rhaglen Dechrau'n Deg. Ie, dyna'r rhaglen Dechrau'n Deg y maent wedi ei thorri a'i darnio yn Lloegr. Fe wnaethom ni ei chynnal ac rydym wedi dal ati i fuddsoddi ynddi. Rydym wedi darparu gofal plant ar gyfer -