English: I want to start again by reiterating that this report is certainly not a whitewash or a cover-up. If the report, on the basis of the evidence available, had come to a different conclusion, then, again, I would have been in a position where, of course, I would have been duty bound to accept that. There is precious little point in having an exhaustive independent investigation process, taking nearly three years, if the first response of a Government Minister is to say, 'I don't like the conclusion. Get me a different one.' This was deliberately undertaken as an independent exercise away from the health board with people who are not practitioners in Wales but with real independent expertise and integrity to get at the truth to allow us to understand what happened, but also to help set a path for the necessary improvement. The Ockenden report, the second report, is about the governance structure of the health board, and, as I said in my statement, I expect that to be provided within the coming weeks. It will be published, it will be made available through the board, and, indeed, the response to it. That may require me to look again at the special measures improvement framework. As I've indicated in my oral statement, I will be happy to do so to make sure that all the required measures are in place and I will then transparently report back on progress made. It's an important part of the special measures framework that the health board didn't go into special measures at the convenance of a politician; there was independent and objective advice that it was the right thing to do. And in all of the progress - or lack or it - that has been made under special measures, again we have had independent assurance, both from the Wales Audit Office, from Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, and, indeed, the chief executive of NHS Wales. So, this is no one person providing advice, no one politician making decisions to benefit themselves individually. Frankly, it would have been to my own selfish interests to have seen them taken out of special measures and this report provide an entirely different conclusion. These are independent, objective and robust conclusions that have been reached both in the report, but also in the continued requirement to keep the health board in special measures, and that will continue to be the case as we report on progress or otherwise. I've indicated I'll report back on the wider improvement work that the rest of the NHS family is undertaking as a result of this report and we will have more to say on the safeguarding work to be undertaken both in north Wales and what that may mean for the rest of the country, too, involving health, local government and others working together.
Welsh: Rwyf eisiau dechrau eto drwy ailadrodd nad yw'r adroddiad hwn yn sicr yn ymgais i wyngalchu neu gelu'r gwir. Pe bai'r adroddiad, ar sail y dystiolaeth oedd ar gael, wedi dod i gasgliad gwahanol, yna, unwaith eto, byddwn wedi bod mewn sefyllfa lle, wrth gwrs, y byddai'n ddyletswydd arnaf i dderbyn hynny. Nid oes unrhyw ddiben o gwbl cael proses ymchwiliad annibynnol gyflawn, a barodd bron i dair blynedd, os mai ymateb cyntaf Gweinidog Llywodraeth yw dweud, 'Nid wyf yn hoffi'r casgliad. Rhowch un arall imi.' Roedd hwn yn fwriadol yn ymarfer annibynnol heb unrhyw gyswllt â'r Bwrdd Iechyd, yn cynnwys pobl nad ydynt yn ymarferwyr yng Nghymru ond sydd ag arbenigedd gwirioneddol annibynnol a didwylledd i ganfod y gwir, i'n galluogi ni i ddeall beth ddigwyddodd, ond hefyd i helpu i osod llwybr ar gyfer y gwelliant angenrheidiol. Mae adroddiad Ockenden, yr ail adroddiad, yn ymwneud â strwythur llywodraethu y Bwrdd Iechyd, ac, fel y dywedais yn fy natganiad, rwy'n disgwyl hwnnw o fewn yr wythnosau nesaf. Bydd yn cael ei gyhoeddi, bydd ar gael drwy'r Bwrdd, ac, yn wir, yr ymateb iddo. Efallai y bydd hynny'n golygu y bydd angen imi edrych eto ar y fframwaith gwella mesurau arbennig. Fel y dywedais yn fy natganiad llafar, rwy'n hapus i wneud hynny er mwyn gwneud yn siŵr bod yr holl fesurau gofynnol ar waith a byddaf wedyn adrodd yn ôl ar y cynnydd a wnaed, a hynny mewn modd cwbl tryloyw. Mae'n rhan bwysig o'r fframwaith mesurau arbennig hynny nad oedd y Bwrdd Iechyd yn mynd i fesurau arbennig yn ôl mympwy gwleidydd; cafwyd cyngor annibynnol a gwrthrychol yn nodi mai dyna oedd y peth cywir i'w wneud. Ac ym mhob agwedd ar y cynnydd - neu ddiffyg hynny - a wnaed o dan fesurau arbennig, unwaith eto rydym ni wedi cael sicrwydd annibynnol, gan Swyddfa Archwilio Cymru, gan Arolygiaeth Gofal Iechyd Cymru, ac, yn wir, Prif Weithredwr GIG Cymru. Felly, nid unigolyn yn rhoi cyngor mo hwn, nid dim ond un gwleidydd yn gwneud penderfyniadau er mantais unigol iddo'i hun. A dweud y gwir, byddai wedi bod er fy mudd hunanol fy hun i'w gweld nhw'n dod allan o fesurau arbennig ac i weld yr adroddiad hwn yn dod i gasgliad hollol wahanol. Mae'r c asgliadau y daethpwyd iddyn nhw yn rhai annibynnol, gwrthrychol a chadarn, ac maent wedi'u nodi yn yr adroddiad ac yn yn y gofyniad parhaus i gadw'r Bwrdd Iechyd mewn mesurau arbennig, a dyna fydd y sefyllfa o hyd wrth inni adrodd ar gynnydd neu fel arall. Rwyf wedi dweud y byddaf yn adrodd yn ôl ar y gwaith gwella ehangach y mae gweddill teulu'r GIG yn ei wneud o ganlyniad i'r adroddiad hwn, a bydd gennym ni fwy i'w ddweud ynglŷn â'r gwaith diogelu sy'n cael ei wneud yn y gogledd a beth y gallai hynny ei olygu i weddill y wlad, hefyd, sy'n cynnwys iechyd, llywodraeth leol ac eraill yn gweithio gyda'i gilydd.