English: Cabinet Secretary, I'm completely delighted by your statement, and also welcome very much the statement by David Melding, a forward-thinking Conservative, if that's not too much of an oxymoron. I just want to delve a little bit into history as to why we are where we are today, because it was Gordon Brown in 2006, when he was the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who announced a UK-wide zero-carbon homes policy, and Britain was the first country to make such a commitment. It was going to make it impossible for any new homes that were built from 2016 to not be ones that were also generating as much energy on site as they would use in heating, hot water, lighting and ventilation. So, it was a fantastic, forward-thinking policy with a green pack that set out the regulatory framework to help to achieve the zero-carbon emissions that we needed to deliver in housing by 2016 and non-domestic buildings by 2019. So, it was tragic that George Osborne axed both these programmes back in July 2015 in a footnote, in the infamous productivity plan attached to his summer budget statement. The head of the UK Green Building Council at the time announced it was the death knell for zero-carbon homes policy. So, I really congratulate the Cabinet Secretary for reinvigorating that policy, because that is absolutely what we need to be doing. We have a huge housing crisis, as the Cabinet Secretary has already said, and we have to bear in mind that 80 per cent of the houses that people will be living in in 2050 have already been built. So, we don't need to be building any more inadequate homes that we're going to have to retrofit. We need to put a stop to that and build the sort of homes that the Cabinet Secretary has outlined. So, I really welcome the idea of working with timber growers, and I hope the Cabinet Secretary is aware of the work of Woodknowledge Wales, where growers, constructors and architects are working together to produce these innovative homes that people are already living in, and we know they work. On the recycled containers, I haven't yet visited one, and I look forward to doing so, but I absolutely agree that living in a recycled container is an awful lot better than sleeping on the street, or sofa surfing on people's sofas. This will give people privacy and dignity and enable them to rebuild their lives and move on to larger housing to suit their circumstances. But you rightly point out that the yuppies in London are already living in these homes, because they can't afford even a garden shed with ridiculous London prices. I want to challenge us to address the stranglehold that the big five house builders have on house building in the private sector, because it has already been shown that modular housing can be built within the envelope of what social housing budgets are likely to be - £110,000 for a three-bedroomed home. So, if they can do it, why is it that the big five are continuing to insist that they must have 25 per cent return on their profit before they'll even get out of bed in the morning? I think that that needs to change, and we need to change that conversation, and this enables us to demonstrate to them yet again that there are perfectly excellent solutions out there already to allow us to tackle the housing problem in a way that will deliver for people really warm, affordable homes that they'll be proud to live in.
Welsh: Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet, rwyf wedi fy llwyr gyfareddu gan eich datganiad, ac yn croesawu'n fawr y datganiad gan David Melding, Geidwadwr blaengar, os nad yw hynny'n ormod o wrtheiriad. Hoffwn ymhel ychydig â'r hanes, o ran pam yr ydym ni yn y sefyllfa yr ydym ynddi heddiw. Gordon Brown, pan oedd yn Ganghellor y Trysorlys, yn 2006 wnaeth gyhoeddi polisi cartrefi di-garbon ledled y DU, a Phrydain oedd y wlad gyntaf i wneud ymrwymiad o'r fath. Byddai'n ei gwneud hi'n amhosib i unrhyw gartrefi newydd a adeiladwyd ers 2016 i beidio â bod yn rhai a oedd hefyd yn cynhyrchu cymaint o ynni ar y safle ag y bydden nhw'n ei ddefnyddio wrth wresogi, twymo dŵr poeth, goleuo ac awyru. Felly, roedd hwn yn bolisi ardderchog a blaengar, gyda phecyn gwyrdd a oedd yn nodi'r fframwaith rheoleiddiol i helpu i gyflawni'r allyriadau di-garbon y bu'n rhaid inni eu darparu mewn tai erbyn 2016 ac adeiladau annomestig erbyn 2019. Felly, peth trist iawn oedd bod George Osborne wedi diddymu'r ddwy raglen hyn yn ôl ym mis Gorffennaf 2015 mewn troednodyn, yn y cynllun cynhyrchiant cywilyddus a oedd ynghlwm wrth ei ddatganiad cyllideb yn yr haf. Cyhoeddodd pennaeth Green Building Council y DU ar y pryd mai dyma hoelen yn arch y polisi cartrefi di-garbon. Felly, rwy'n llongyfarch Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet am adfywio'r polisi hwnnw, oherwydd dyna'r union beth y mae angen inni fod yn ei wneud. Mae gennym ni argyfwng tai enfawr, fel y dywedodd Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet eisoes, a rhaid inni gofio bod 80 y cant o'r tai y bydd pobl yn byw ynddyn nhw yn 2050 eisoes wedi'u hadeiladu. Felly, nid oes angen inni fod yn adeiladu unrhyw gartrefi annigonol y bydd yn rhaid inni eu hôl-addasu. Mae angen inni roi stop ar hynny ac adeiladu'r math o gartrefi a amlinellwyd gan Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet. Felly, rwy'n croesawu'r syniad o weithio gyda thyfwyr coed, a gobeithio bod Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet yn ymwybodol o waith Wood Knowledge Wales, lle mae tyfwyr, adeiladwyr a phenseiri yn cydweithio i gynhyrchu'r cartrefi arloesol hyn y mae pobl eisoes yn byw ynddyn nhw, ac y gwyddom eu bod yn llwyddiannus. Ar y cynwysyddion wedi'u hailgylchu, nid wyf i wedi ymweld ag un hyd yn hyn, ac rwy'n edrych ymlaen at wneud hynny. Ond rwy'n cytuno'n llwyr bod byw mewn cynhwysydd wedi'i ailgylchu'n llawer gwell na chysgu ar y stryd, neu syrffio ar soffa rhywun arall. Bydd hyn yn rhoi preifatrwydd ac urddas i bobl a'u galluogi i ailadeiladu eu bywydau a symud ymlaen i dai mwy o faint sy'n addas i'w hamgylchiadau. Ond rydych yn gywir i nodi bod yr iypis yn Llundain eisoes yn byw yn y cartrefi hyn, gan na allan nhw fforddio hyd yn oed sied mewn gardd gyda'r prisiau hurt yn Llundain. Rwy'n awyddus i'n herio ni i fynd i'r afael â'r gafael haearnaidd sydd gan y pum adeiladwr mawr o ran adeiladu tai yn y sector preifat. Dangoswyd eisoes y gellir adeiladu tai modiwlaidd o fewn terfynau tebygol cyllidebau tai cymdeithasol - £110,000 ar gyfer cartref tair ystafell wely. Felly, os gallan nhw wneud hynny, pam mae'r pump mawr yn parhau i fynnu bod yn rhaid iddyn nhw weld 25 y cant yn ôl ar eu helw cyn eu bod yn codi o'r gwely yn y bore hyd yn oed? Credaf fod angen i hynny newid, ac mae angen inni newid y sgwrs honno. Bydd hyn yn ein galluogi ni i ddangos iddyn nhw unwaith eto fod yna atebion cwbl gampus eisoes ar gael i ganiatáu i ni fynd i'r afael â'r broblem tai mewn ffordd a fydd yn darparu cartrefi cynnes a fforddiadwy i bobl, y byddan nhw'n falch o gael byw ynddyn nhw.