English: Firstly, I would like to thank Mark Isherwood for bringing forward a legislative proposal that would help us to create a better Wales. It is a sad fact, however, that the BSL community continues to face such challenges, even after the petition submitted by Deffo!, which then called on the Welsh Government to improve access to education and services in BSL to improve the quality of life for D/deaf people of all ages. Our nation has simply not delivered and I wholeheartedly agree with introducing the requirement that public bodies co-produce and publish their own BSL plan to develop awareness, training and improved access to front-line services. As Members of the Senedd, we truly represent residents who use BSL, so I thought it essential that my own office team and I strove to learn. This should be the case across front-line, public-facing bodies in Wales, so that services are at least trying to be accessible to the around 7,500 people who not only use BSL, but rely on it in Wales. We need to empower this community. Now that requires us to have a Welsh Government that acts on the Children's Commissioner for Wales's findings that there is a blatant lack of support available to ensure that family members can use BSL. With a lack of communication skills, this, therefore, places an unnecessary and unfair barrier between BSL users and their families. Now, a Government that addresses the terrible fact that only half of all adult BSL courses were fully funded by the Welsh Government, that has to change; a commitment to tackling the finding by the National Deaf Children's Society that not all online learning resources are accessible, despite schools being required to make provisions available under the Equality Act 2010; and legislation that helps to address the unacceptable fact that levels of support provided by local authorities vary, I can see no better way of achieving this than through this proposed Bill and the establishment of a BSL national advisory group. In fact, we could go so far as backing Professor Graham Turner's suggestion of a signing Parliament, to boost engagement in securing positive changes across Wales. We need to see progress, so I do hope that the Bill would also explicitly require the publication of BSL performance reviews. I endorse all the comments made by the speakers previous to me today. I am pleased to be voting in favour of progress and this particular proposal, and I would ask all my Senedd colleagues to do the same. Thank you. Diolch.
Welsh: Yn gyntaf, hoffwn ddiolch i Mark Isherwood am gyflwyno cynnig deddfwriaethol a fyddai'n ein helpu i greu Cymru well. Mae'n ffaith drist, fodd bynnag, fod y gymuned BSL yn parhau i wynebu heriau o'r fath, hyd yn oed ar ôl y ddeiseb a gyflwynwyd gan Deffo!, a oedd yn galw ar y pryd ar Lywodraeth Cymru i wella mynediad at addysg a gwasanaethau mewn BSL i wella ansawdd bywyd pobl F/fyddar o bob oed. Nid yw ein gwlad wedi cyflawni ac rwy'n cytuno'n llwyr â chyflwyno'r gofyniad i gyrff cyhoeddus gydgynhyrchu a chyhoeddi eu cynllun BSL eu hunain i ddatblygu ymwybyddiaeth, hyfforddiant a gwell mynediad at wasanaethau rheng flaen. Fel Aelodau o'r Senedd, rydym yn cynrychioli trigolion sy'n defnyddio BSL, felly roeddwn yn meddwl ei bod yn hanfodol fod tîm fy swyddfa a minnau'n ymdrechu i ddysgu. Dylai hyn fod yn wir ar draws cyrff rheng flaen sy'n ymwneud â'r cyhoedd yng Nghymru, fel bod gwasanaethau o leiaf yn ceisio bod yn hygyrch i'r oddeutu 7,500 o bobl sydd nid yn unig yn defnyddio BSL, ond sy'n dibynnu arni yng Nghymru. Rhaid inni rymuso'r gymuned hon. Nawr mae hynny'n ei gwneud yn ofynnol inni gael Llywodraeth Cymru sy'n gweithredu ar ganfyddiadau Comisiynydd Plant Cymru fod diffyg cefnogaeth amlwg i sicrhau y gall aelodau o'r teulu ddefnyddio BSL. Gyda diffyg sgiliau cyfathrebu, mae hyn, felly, yn gosod rhwystr diangen ac annheg rhwng defnyddwyr BSL a'u teuluoedd. Nawr, rhaid i Lywodraeth sy'n mynd i'r afael â'r ffaith ofnadwy mai dim ond hanner yr holl gyrsiau BSL i oedolion a gafodd eu hariannu'n llawn gan Lywodraeth Cymru, rhaid i hynny newid; ymrwymiad i fynd i'r afael â'r canfyddiad gan y Gymdeithas Genedlaethol i Blant Byddar nad yw'r holl adnoddau dysgu ar-lein yn hygyrch, er ei bod yn ofynnol i ysgolion sicrhau bod darpariaethau ar gael o dan Ddeddf Cydraddoldeb 2010; a deddfwriaeth sy'n helpu i fynd i'r afael â'r ffaith annerbyniol bod lefelau'r cymorth a ddarperir gan awdurdodau lleol yn amrywio, ni allaf weld unrhyw ffordd well o gyflawni hyn na thrwy'r Bil arfaethedig hwn a sefydlu grŵp cynghori cenedlaethol BSL. Yn wir, gallem fynd mor bell â chefnogi awgrym yr Athro Graham Turner o Senedd sy'n arwyddo, i hybu ymgysylltiad a sicrhau newidiadau cadarnhaol ledled Cymru. Mae angen inni weld cynnydd, felly rwy'n gobeithio y byddai'r Bil hefyd yn galw'n benodol am gyhoeddi adolygiadau perfformiad BSL. Rwy'n ategu'r holl sylwadau a wnaed gan siaradwyr blaenorol heddiw. Rwy'n falch o bleidleisio o blaid cynnydd a'r cynnig penodol hwn, ac rwy'n gofyn i fy holl gyd-Aelodau yn y Senedd wneud yr un peth. Diolch.