English: I remember in March 2020 sitting in the leader's office at Flintshire County Council, working out how we could send everyone to work from home and keep front-line services running. We were stunned and it was frightening for our workforce. Initially, I spent time collecting PPE of any type from playgroups, schools, businesses and volunteers who had been printing 3D face masks. Flintshire care homes and domiciliary care staff were desperate for any form of PPE. Orders they'd placed for PPE were being unfulfilled, and I was told that Public Health England were diverting all PPE to their collection points and that they would then be distributed to Wales. I contacted Airbus, because I knew a flight of PPE was coming in, and I was then told it was all going to UK Government to then be distributed and we had to wait. Track and trace in Wales was done through local government, who were the experts, and used to tackling outbreaks of viruses and diseases. It was delivered at a fraction of the cost of England's, which was done through private companies, costing billions, with very poor success levels. I think there was a 90 per cent success rate in Wales through local authorities, whereas in England, it was 65 per cent on average. There was excellent partnership working between the Welsh Government and local authority leaders and chief executives, with weekly engagement. The UK Treasury wasted £8.7 billion of public money on PPE it couldn't use; almost as much as the entire annual spend of NHS Wales. A further £4.3 billion of money was fraudulently stolen from COVID-19 support schemes and was casually written off. Much of the unsuitable and unusable PPE was supplied by companies that were fast-tracked by Tory MPs and Ministers to obtain contracts for which they were unsuited to deliver, and some of these companies saw profits grow by billions. I'm saying this because this money could have now been used to pay for nurses' wages, for the recruitment of social care workers, to fill the black hole caused by rising energy and inflation costs. [ Interruption.] It does matter, because it matters now to what we're able to provide for people that are sick now. By having a UK-wide inquiry, it will be more rounded. The UK Government will have the powers and resources to be able to mobilise all the necessary information - [ Interruption.] I only have three minutes - and powers needed to interrogate it. The Welsh Government is disclosing hundreds of thousands of documents to the inquiry and I want to know why certain cohorts were more impacted: BAME communities, people who lived in deprived areas. My daughter caught COVID when she was 12 weeks pregnant and then developed a heart condition that made her collapse. I wanted to know whether that's because she was pregnant or because of COVID; we still don't know. However, once the UK inquiry report is published, the Senedd should then be able to analyse it and further consideration should be given to setting up a Senedd committee to conduct its own inquiry in those areas that need further scrutiny. Diolch.
Welsh: Rwy'n cofio eistedd yn swyddfa'r arweinydd yng Nghyngor Sir y Fflint ym mis Mawrth 2020 yn ystyried sut y gallem anfon pawb i weithio gartref a chadw gwasanaethau rheng flaen i redeg. Roeddem wedi ein syfrdanu ac roedd yn frawychus i'n gweithlu. Ar y dechrau, treuliais amser yn casglu cyfarpar diogelwch personol o unrhyw fath gan grwpiau chwarae, ysgolion, busnesau a gwirfoddolwyr a oedd wedi bod yn argraffu masgiau wyneb 3D. Roedd cartrefi gofal sir y Fflint a staff gofal cartref yn daer am gael unrhyw fath o gyfarpar diogelwch personol. Nid oedd cyfarpar diogelwch personol a archebwyd ganddynt yn cael ei gyflenwi, a chefais wybod bod Iechyd Cyhoeddus Lloegr yn dargyfeirio'r holl gyfarpar diogelwch personol i'w mannau casglu hwy ac y byddent yn cael eu dosbarthu i Gymru wedyn. Fe gysylltais ag Airbus, oherwydd fe wyddwn fod awyren yn llawn o gyfarpar diogelwch personol yn dod i mewn, a chefais wybod wedyn fod y cyfan yn mynd i Lywodraeth y DU i gael ei ddosbarthu wedyn a bu'n rhaid inni aros. Cafodd monitro ac olrhain yng Nghymru ei wneud drwy lywodraeth leol, sef yr arbenigwyr a oedd wedi arfer mynd i'r afael ag achosion o feirysau a chlefydau. Fe'i darparwyd ar ran fach iawn o gost y gwasanaeth yn Lloegr, a wnaed drwy gwmnïau preifat gan gostio biliynau, gyda lefelau llwyddiant gwael iawn. Rwy'n credu bod cyfradd llwyddiant Cymru yn 90 y cant drwy'r awdurdodau lleol, ond yn Lloegr, roedd yn 65 y cant ar gyfartaledd. Roedd yna waith partneriaeth gwych rhwng Llywodraeth Cymru ac arweinwyr awdurdodau lleol a phrif weithredwyr, gydag ymgysylltu wythnosol. Gwastraffodd Trysorlys y DU £8.7 biliwn o arian cyhoeddus ar gyfarpar diogelwch personol na allai ei ddefnyddio; bron cymaint â holl wariant blynyddol GIG Cymru. Cafodd £4.3 biliwn arall o arian ei ddwyn drwy dwyll o gynlluniau cymorth COVID-19 a chafodd ei ddiystyru'n ddidaro. Cafodd llawer o'r cyfarpar diogelwch personol anaddas na ellid ei ddefnyddio ei gyflenwi gan gwmnïau a gafodd eu gosod ar lwybr cyflym gan ASau a Gweinidogion Torïaidd i gael contractau nad oeddent yn addas i'w cyflenwi, a gwelodd rhai o'r cwmnïau hyn eu helw'n tyfu fesul biliynau o bunnoedd. Rwy'n dweud hyn oherwydd gallai'r arian hwn fod wedi cael ei ddefnyddio bellach i dalu am gyflogau nyrsys, ar gyfer recriwtio gweithwyr gofal cymdeithasol, i lenwi'r twll du a achoswyd gan gostau ynni a chwyddiant cynyddol. [ Torri ar draws.] Mae'n bwysig, oherwydd mae'n bwysig nawr i'r hyn y gallwn ei ddarparu i bobl sy'n sâl nawr. Drwy gael ymchwiliad ledled y DU, fe fydd yn fwy cyflawn. Bydd gan Lywodraeth y DU bwerau ac adnoddau i allu cynnull yr holl wybodaeth angenrheidiol - [ Torri ar draws.] Dim ond tri munud sydd gennyf - a'r pwerau sydd eu hangen i'w harchwilio. Mae Llywodraeth Cymru'n datgelu cannoedd o filoedd o ddogfennau i'r ymchwiliad ac rwyf am wybod pam yr effeithiwyd yn waeth ar rai carfanau: cymunedau BAME, pobl a oedd yn byw mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig. Fe wnaeth fy merch ddal COVID pan oedd hi 12 wythnos yn feichiog a datblygu cyflwr ar ei chalon wedyn a wnaeth iddi lewygu. Roeddwn eisiau gwybod a oedd hynny oherwydd ei bod yn feichiog neu oherwydd COVID; nid ydym yn gwybod o hyd. Ond wedi i adroddiad ymchwiliad y DU gael ei gyhoeddi, dylai'r Senedd allu ei ddadansoddi a dylid rhoi ystyriaeth bellach i sefydlu pwyllgor Senedd i gynnal ei ymchwiliad ei hun yn y meysydd sy'n galw am graffu pellach. Diolch.