English: I thank Carolyn Thomas for those questions, Llywydd. In relation to public service funding, there are two different issues, aren't there? There is the issue of energy costs, and the announcement on 8 September did suggest that there would be help for public services with energy costs, as well as help to businesses, but we will not know any more than that until we see the mini budget, or whatever it is to be called, on Friday of this week. But, beyond the energy costs, there is the general impact of inflation, which erodes the purchasing power of the budgets of all public services. I said earlier: the Welsh Government's own budget will buy £600 million and more less value than it would have in November last year. In November last year, the UK Government, in their comprehensive spending review, decided how much money the Welsh Government needed to discharge its responsibilities. In effect, we now have hundreds of millions of pounds less than they said we needed then. So, I think it's a completely legitimate expectation that the UK Government will want to put public services back in the position that they themselves had decided was necessary less than a year ago. As to the discretionary assistance fund, it is under enormous pressure. The claims on it go up every month from people who have nowhere else to go. Fortunately, in relation to the specific point that Carolyn Thomas made about people who are off-gas and therefore have to buy heating oil, the fuel bank scheme that will become operational this month will offer help for people in those circumstances. People on pre-payment meters - nothing at all in the Government's announcement to help them, the poorest people who buy the most expensive energy, and nothing to help people who are off-grid either. Our fuel bank scheme will do both.
Welsh: Rwy'n diolch i Carolyn Thomas am y cwestiynau hynny, Llywydd. O ran cyllid i wasanaethau cyhoeddus, mae dau fater ar wahân, onid oes? Fe geir mater o ran costau ynni, ac roedd y cyhoeddiad ar 8 Medi yn awgrymu y byddai cymorth ar gael i wasanaethau cyhoeddus gyda chostau ynni, yn ogystal â chymorth i fusnesau, ond ni fyddwn ni'n gwybod mwy na hynny tan y byddwn ni'n gweld y gyllideb fach, neu beth bynnag y bydd hi'n cael ei galw, ddydd Gwener yr wythnos hon. Ond, y tu hwnt i'r costau ynni, fe geir effaith gyffredinol chwyddiant, sy'n erydu pŵer prynu cyllidebau'r gwasanaethau cyhoeddus i gyd. Fe ddywedais i'n gynharach: fe fydd cyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru ei hun yn prynu dros £600 miliwn yn llai o werth nag y byddai hi ym mis Tachwedd y llynedd. Ym mis Tachwedd y llynedd, fe benderfynodd Llywodraeth y DU, yn ei hadolygiad cynhwysfawr o wariant, faint o arian oedd ei angen ar Lywodraeth Cymru i gyflawni ei chyfrifoldebau. I bob pwrpas, mae gennym ni gannoedd o filiynau o bunnoedd yn llai erbyn hyn na'r hyn a ddywedon nhw y byddai ei angen arnom ni bryd hynny. Felly, rwy'n credu mai disgwyliad cwbl ddilys yw i Lywodraeth y DU roi gwasanaethau cyhoeddus yn ôl yn yr un sefyllfa â'r hyn y penderfynwyd ganddyn nhw eu hunain oedd ei angen lai na blwyddyn yn ôl. O ran y gronfa cymorth dewisol, mae honno dan bwysau aruthrol. Mae'r galwadau arni hi'n codi bob mis oddi wrth bobl sydd heb unrhyw le arall i droi. Yn ffodus, o ran pwynt penodol a wnaeth Carolyn Thomas am bobl sydd heb brif gyflenwad nwy ac felly'n gorfod prynu olew i wresogi, fe fydd y cynllun banc tanwydd a fydd yn dod yn weithredol y mis hwn yn cynnig cymorth i bobl yn yr amgylchiadau hynny. Pobl ar fesuryddion talu ymlaen llaw - dim byd o gwbl yng nghyhoeddiad y Llywodraeth i'w helpu nhw, y bobl fwyaf anghenus sy'n prynu egni yn y ffordd fwyaf costus, a dim oll i helpu pobl sydd oddi ar y grid chwaith. Fe fydd ein cynllun banc tanwydd ni'n gwneud y ddau beth hynny.