English: Before the pandemic, mental health services were struggling with a backlog of inquiries. Wales had the third highest rate out of English and Welsh regions for female suicide and the fourth highest rate for male suicide. And this is the problem, Minister; we have a health service in Wales that was already underfunded and struggling before COVID hit. During this Welsh Parliament term, five of the seven health boards have been under some kind of Government intervention, and Betsi, despite your recent announcement, is still struggling to show signs of real, long-term, sustainable improvement. And there were other areas over the past five years where you've promised much but failed to deliver, such as a mother and baby unit for south Wales and a gender identity clinic for Wales. So, we're calling on your Government to urgently publish a recovery plan for the Welsh NHS. It must include three key commitments: clear the backlog in treatment and ensure that no-one has to wait more than one year for treatment, going forward; recruit at least 1,200 doctors and 2,000 nurses to reduce waiting times; and transform mental health by treating it with the same urgency as physical health. I am not convinced you can deliver this. The Welsh health service now needs new leadership, and I'm delighted with the plans that my party, the Welsh Conservatives, have to take things forward. A Welsh Conservative Government would have a COVID-19 management plan, which would appoint a dedicated COVID-19 recovery Minister in the Welsh Government to oversee all areas of coronavirus recovery, including the vaccine roll-out. We would support people experiencing the long-term effects of COVID-19 by establishing clinics dedicated to treating long COVID. We would urgently establish routes to support for people suffering with mental health problems from the pandemic, especially NHS staff and care workers, because they've been providing palliative care, and those who suffered bereavement who were not able to say goodbye to loved ones. We will address the chronic deterioration in waiting times over the last 12 months and begin to ease the recruitment crisis in the Welsh health service with our 'recruit, retain, retrain' policy. For too long, mental health services have also been the poor relation, and it is time that mental well-being was given the same prominence as physical health. Minister, we want to build back better, we want to provide the Welsh NHS with the support that it needs and we don't want more of the same. I look forward to hearing the contributions to this debate today. I would urge Members of this Senedd to back this motion. Thank you.
Welsh: Cyn y pandemig, roedd gwasanaethau iechyd meddwl yn cael trafferth gydag ôl-groniad o ymholiadau. Cymru oedd â'r drydedd gyfradd uchaf yn rhanbarthau Cymru a Lloegr o hunanladdiad ymhlith menywod a'r bedwaredd gyfradd uchaf o hunanladdiad ymhlith dynion. A dyma'r broblem, Weinidog; mae gennym wasanaeth iechyd yng Nghymru a oedd eisoes yn cael ei danariannu ac yn ei chael hi'n anodd cyn i COVID daro. Yn ystod tymor y Senedd hon yng Nghymru, mae pump o'r saith bwrdd iechyd wedi bod o dan ryw fath o ymyrraeth gan y Llywodraeth, ac mae Betsi Cadwaladr, er gwaethaf eich cyhoeddiad diweddar, yn dal i'w chael yn anodd dangos arwyddion o welliant hirdymor real a chynaliadwy. Ac roedd yna feysydd eraill dros y pum mlynedd diwethaf lle rydych wedi addo llawer ond wedi methu cyflawni, fel uned mamau a babanod ar gyfer de Cymru a chlinig hunaniaeth rhywedd i Gymru. Felly, rydym yn galw ar eich Llywodraeth i gyhoeddi cynllun adfer ar gyfer GIG Cymru ar frys. Rhaid iddo gynnwys tri ymrwymiad allweddol: clirio'r ôl-groniad o driniaethau a sicrhau nad oes rhaid i neb aros mwy na blwyddyn am driniaeth yn y dyfodol; recriwtio o leiaf 1,200 o feddygon a 2,000 o nyrsys i leihau amseroedd aros; a thrawsnewid iechyd meddwl drwy ei drin â'r un brys ag iechyd corfforol. Nid wyf wedi fy argyhoeddi y gallwch gyflawni hyn. Mae angen arweinyddiaeth newydd ar wasanaeth iechyd Cymru erbyn hyn, ac rwyf wrth fy modd gyda'r cynlluniau sydd gan fy mhlaid i, y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig, i symud pethau yn eu blaen. Byddai gan Lywodraeth Geidwadol yng Nghymru gynllun rheoli COVID-19, a fyddai'n penodi Gweinidog adfer COVID-19 penodol yn Llywodraeth Cymru i oruchwylio pob maes adfer wedi'r coronafeirws, gan gynnwys cyflwyno'r brechlyn. Byddem yn cefnogi pobl sy'n profi effeithiau hirdymor COVID-19 drwy sefydlu clinigau penodol ar gyfer trin COVID hir. Byddem yn sefydlu llwybrau cymorth ar frys i bobl sy'n dioddef problemau iechyd meddwl yn sgil y pandemig, yn enwedig staff y GIG a gweithwyr gofal, am eu bod wedi bod yn darparu gofal lliniarol, a'r rhai a ddioddefodd brofedigaeth na allodd ffarwelio ag anwyliaid. Byddwn yn mynd i'r afael â'r dirywiad cronig mewn amseroedd aros dros y 12 mis diwethaf ac yn dechrau lleddfu'r argyfwng recriwtio yng ngwasanaeth iechyd Cymru gyda'n polisi 'recriwtio, cadw, ailhyfforddi'. Ers gormod o amser, mae gwasanaethau iechyd meddwl wedi cael eu gadael ar ôl, ac mae'n bryd rhoi'r un amlygrwydd i lesiant meddyliol ag a roddir i iechyd corfforol. Weinidog, rydym am adeiladu'n ôl yn well, rydym am roi'r cymorth sydd ei angen arno i GIG Cymru ac nid ydym eisiau mwy o'r un peth. Edrychaf ymlaen at glywed y cyfraniadau i'r ddadl hon heddiw. Hoffwn annog yr Aelodau o'r Senedd i gefnogi'r cynnig. Diolch.