English: Thank you to the Minister for the statement. According to the Welsh Government guidance on the fund, the main purpose of the housing-with-care fund is to increase the stock of housing to meet the needs of people with care and support needs, to support independent living in the community for people with care and support needs, and to provide intermediate care settings in the community, so that people who need care, support and rehabilitation can return to living independently or maintain their existing independence. This is to be welcomed as it plays an important part in ensuring that the people of Wales have a right to housing, and housing appropriate and suitable to their needs. This is a crucial principle, as we move forward, to answer the housing crisis. As your guidance notes, we are facing a number of growing challenges with regard to healthcare, social care and housing in Wales. We have an ageing population. The 2018-based population projections estimate that the total population age 65 and over will increase by over a quarter over the next 20 years, with the number of those age 75 and over rising by almost 50 per cent to a little under 0.5 million people by 2041. Alongside age-related poor health and disability, other growing challenges include greater numbers of people with existing conditions living longer into older age, with cumulative health impacts, such as people with a learning disability or dementia. For these populations to live independently with dignity and care, the housing-with-care fund must be effective in responding to the challenges ahead. We also need to ensure that the accommodation and care needs of particularly vulnerable groups, who are not able to live fully independently, are met as close to home as possible. As it stands, many children and young people are placed each year in out-of-county or out-of country placements, as you mentioned yourself, Minister, which is costly, reduces local control over the person's health and care management, impacts on family contact and relationships and the well-being and outcomes of the individual. So, as a more overarching question, I'd like to ask the Minister what lessons she has learned from the previous integrated care fund with regard to how it helped respond to the aforementioned challenges and what bearing these lessons have had on the new fund. Can the Minister also explain how much input health providers, social care providers and occupational therapy are having in developing housing plans, from spatial plans, such as our LDPs, to individual sites, to ensure that people's needs are answered? Another stated key driver of this fund is the need for intermediate health and care services in the community and adequate facilities to provide step-up or step-down reablement and rehabilitation at a local level through the provision of appropriate bedded facilities, as well as community facilities that reflect home environments, supported by appropriate care and rehabilitation services. With regard to the need for these facilities, how successful was the last fund in terms of delivering these requirements? And with regard to this four-year capital programme, with a confirmed £181.5 million over the first three years, what targets do you have for the delivery and the construction of facilities by 2025-26? In terms of projects funded by the ICF, an evaluation found that key barriers to funded projects included the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of annual funding arrangements and the implications that this has had upon staff recruitment and retention. On the point regarding staff recruitment and retention, I'm keen to hear from the Minister how the new fund will respond to this challenge. Diolch.
Welsh: Diolch i'r Gweinidog am y datganiad. Yn ôl canllawiau Llywodraeth Cymru ar y gronfa, prif ddiben y gronfa tai â gofal yw cynyddu'r stoc o dai ar gyfer diwallu anghenion pobl sydd ag anghenion o ran gofal a chymorth, i gefnogi bywyd annibynnol yn y gymuned i bobl sydd ag anghenion gofal a chymorth, a darparu lleoliadau gofal canolraddol yn y gymuned, er mwyn i bobl sydd angen gofal, cymorth ac adsefydlu ddychwelyd i fywyd annibynnol neu gynnal eu hannibyniaeth bresennol nhw. Mae hyn i'w groesawu gan fod rhan bwysig iddo wrth sicrhau bod gan bobl Cymru hawl i dai, a thai sy'n glyd a chynnes ac yn addas i'w hanghenion. Mae hon yn egwyddor hollbwysig, wrth inni symud ymlaen, i ymateb i'r argyfwng tai. Fel y mae eich canllawiau yn e nodi, rydym ni'n wynebu nifer o heriau cynyddol yng Nghymru o ran gofal iechyd, gofal cymdeithasol a thai. Mae gennym ni boblogaeth sy'n heneiddio. Mae amcanestyniadau poblogaeth sydd ar sail 2018 yn amcangyfrif y bydd cyfanswm y boblogaeth 65 oed neu hŷn yn cynyddu gan fwy na'r chwarter dros yr 20 mlynedd nesaf, a nifer y bobl 75 oed neu hŷn yn codi bron 50 y cant i ychydig o dan 0.5 miliwn o unigolion erbyn 2041. Ynghyd â gwaeledd ac anabledd sy'n gysylltiedig ag oedran, mae heriau cynyddol eraill yn cynnwys mwy o bobl â chyflyrau presennol sy'n byw yn hŷn, gydag effeithiau iechyd cronnol, fel pobl ag anabledd dysgu neu ddementia. Er mwyn i'r poblogaethau hyn fod â bywydau annibynnol gydag urddas a gofal, mae'n rhaid i'r gronfa tai â gofal fod yn effeithiol wrth ymateb i'r heriau sydd o'n blaenau. Mae angen i ni sicrhau hefyd bod anghenion llety a gofal grwpiau sy'n arbennig o agored i niwed, nad ydyn nhw'n gallu byw yn gwbl annibynnol, yn cael eu diwallu mor agos i'w cartrefi â phosibl. Fel mae hi ar hyn o bryd, bob blwyddyn, mae llawer o blant a phobl ifanc yn cael eu lleoli mewn lleoliadau sydd y tu allan i'r sir neu y tu allan i'r wlad, fel roeddech chi'n sôn eich hunan, Gweinidog, sy'n rhywbeth costus, yn lleihau rheolaeth leol o ran rheoli iechyd a gofal unigolyn, yn effeithio ar gyswllt teuluol a pherthnasoedd a lles a'r canlyniadau i unigolion. Felly, fel cwestiwn mwy cyffredinol, fe hoffwn i ofyn i'r Gweinidog pa wersi a ddysgwyd ganddi hi yn sgil y gronfa gofal integredig flaenorol o ran sut y bu honno o gymorth wrth ymateb i'r heriau a nodwyd uchod a sut mae'r gwersi hynny wedi effeithio ar ddatblygiad y gronfa newydd. A wnaiff y Gweinidog egluro hefyd faint o fewnbwn y caiff darparwyr iechyd, darparwyr gofal cymdeithasol a therapi galwedigaethol ei roi wrth ddatblygu cynlluniau tai, o gynlluniau gofodol, fel ein cynlluniau datblygu lleol, i safleoedd unigol, ar gyfer sicrhau bod anghenion pobl yn cael eu hateb? Un o'r ffactorau allweddol arall a nodwyd ar gyfer y gronfa hon yw'r angen am wasanaethau iechyd a gofal canolraddol yn y gymuned a chyfleusterau digonol i ddarparu gwasanaethau ailalluogi ac adsefydlu cam-i-fyny, cam-i-lawr ar lefel leol drwy ddarparu cyfleusterau gwely priodol, yn ogystal â chyfleusterau cymunedol sy'n adlewyrchu amgylcheddau'r aelwydydd, gyda chymorth gwasanaethau gofal ac adsefydlu priodol. O ran yr angen am y cyfleusterau hyn, pa mor llwyddiannus oedd y gronfa ddiwethaf o ran cyflawni'r gofynion hyn? Ac o ran y rhaglen gyfalaf bedair blynedd hon, gyda chadarnhad o £181.5 miliwn dros y tair blynedd gyntaf, pa nodau sydd gennych chi ar gyfer darparu ac adeiladu cyfleusterau erbyn 2025-26? O ran prosiectau a ariannwyd gan yr ICF, roedd gwerthusiad yn canfod bod rhwystrau allweddol i brosiectau a ariannwyd yn cynnwys pandemig COVID-19, effaith trefniadau ariannu blynyddol a goblygiadau'r rhain o ran recriwtio a chadw staff. Ynglŷn â'r pwynt ynghylch recriwtio a chadw staff, rwy'n awyddus i glywed gan y Gweinidog sut y bydd y gronfa newydd yn ymateb i'r her honno. Diolch.