English: I do thank Vikki Howells for that, and absolutely want to congratulate Rhigos Primary School and the team of people who have achieved that very significant award. I'm afraid, Llywydd, I have been around long enough vividly to remember a visit to a school in Rhondda Cynon Taf, the local authority represented here, with others, by Vikki Howells. It was a visit carried out by the then First Minister, Rhodri Morgan, and he met a formidable headteacher, who said to him that if there was one thing that she would like to see the Welsh Government do, it would be to take action to prevent children in her school turning up every morning too hungry to learn. That was a very sobering moment, Llywydd. From that one visit, the whole programme that we've had now right across Wales for, as Vikki Howells said, almost the whole of devolution to provide a free breakfast in primary schools, that's where that idea came from. And it does, as Vikki Howells has said, make sure that children who come to the classroom in Wales are ready to learn and not constantly preoccupied by the fact that they haven't eaten since they were last in school. That will be enhanced even further by our programme of free dinners, free school meals - universal free school meals - a commitment embedded in our co-operation agreement with Plaid Cymru, and where a major step forward was taken yesterday with the announcement of the move forward in September of this year. I am hugely encouraged by the fact that so many schools and so many local authorities in Wales are able to join the roll-out of universal free school meals so early in the programme, and others with very active plans to extend that offer, not just to reception-age pupils, but to year 1 and year 2 students as well. It's an idea that's been widely welcomed, for all the reasons that Vikki Howells said, and we're off to a very good start with our programme here in Wales.
Welsh: Diolch i Vikki Howells am hynna, ac rwyf eisiau llongyfarch Ysgol Gynradd Rhigos a'r tîm o bobl sydd wedi ennill y wobr sylweddol iawn honno. Mae arnaf ofn, Llywydd, fy mod wedi bod o gwmpas yn ddigon hir i gofio ymweliad ag ysgol yn Rhondda Cynon Taf, yr awdurdod lleol a gynrychiolir yma, gydag eraill, gan Vikki Howells. Roedd yn ymweliad a gynhaliwyd gan y Prif Weinidog ar y pryd, Rhodri Morgan, a chyfarfu â phennaeth aruthrol, a ddywedodd wrtho, pe bai yna un peth yr hoffai weld Llywodraeth Cymru yn ei wneud, cymryd camau i atal plant yn ei hysgol rhag troi i fyny bob bore yn rhy lwglyd i ddysgu byddai hynny. Roedd honno'n foment sobreiddiol iawn, Llywydd. O'r un ymweliad hwnnw, mae'r rhaglen gyfan yr ydym wedi'i chael yn awr ledled Cymru ar gyfer datganoli, fel y dywedodd Vikki Howells, dros gyfnod cyfan datganoli bron i ddarparu brecwast am ddim mewn ysgolion cynradd, dyna o le y daeth y syniad hwnnw. Ac fel y dywedodd Vikki Howells, mae'n gwneud yn siŵr bod plant sy'n dod i'r ystafell ddosbarth yng Nghymru yn barod i ddysgu ac nad ydyn nhw'n ymgolli'n gyson yn y ffaith nad ydyn nhw wedi bwyta ers iddyn nhw fod yn yr ysgol y tro diwethaf. Caiff hynny ei wella ymhellach fyth gan ein rhaglen o giniawau am ddim, prydau ysgol am ddim - prydau ysgol am ddim i bawb - ymrwymiad sydd wedi'i wreiddio yn ein cytundeb cydweithredu â Phlaid Cymru, a phryd y cymerwyd cam mawr ymlaen ddoe gyda'r cyhoeddiad am y symudiad ymlaen ym mis Medi eleni. Caf fy nghalonogi yn fawr gan y ffaith bod cynifer o ysgolion a chymaint o awdurdodau lleol yng Nghymru yn gallu ymuno â chyflwyno prydau ysgol am ddim i bawb mor gynnar yn y rhaglen, ac eraill sydd â chynlluniau gweithgar iawn i ymestyn y cynnig hwnnw, nid yn unig i ddisgyblion oedran derbyn, ond i fyfyrwyr blwyddyn 1 a blwyddyn 2 hefyd. Mae'n syniad sydd wedi cael croeso eang, am yr holl resymau a ddywedodd Vikki Howells, ac rydym yn dechrau'n dda iawn gyda'n rhaglen yma yng Nghymru.