English: Thank you very much, and I also am grateful to Hefin for bringing forward this debate today. There's been a great amount of media attention recently and some really serious concerns raised by AMs about the various issues affecting people who own their homes on a leasehold basis. I was pleased to announce a package of measures to begin to address those concerns just over a week ago. However, Hefin's debate today really does shine a light on the issues affecting people who own their homes on a freehold basis, and specifically where they're on estates and subject to management fees where they, unlike leaseholders, have no means of challenging those charges. I only have four minutes to respond to this debate, so I won't rehearse again the concerns that Members have been raising so clearly, but I do hear them and I do recognise them. It is clear to me that many of the concerns that we have heard do stem from the same place as the leasehold concerns that we heard in the individual Member's debate led by Mick Antoniw, and that really is about the pressing need to professionalise and raise standards of behaviour in the property and estate management sector. And I say 'professionalise and raise standards of behaviour' because, actually, some of the most professional companies are the ones displaying some of the poorest behaviour. Members will have heard me say, in response to Mick Antoniw's debate, that I won't shy away from legislation and they will also have heard me say that we are currently engaging with the Law Commission's review of residential, leasehold and commonhold law. That review has three key strands: it includes leaseholding franchisement; commonhold as an alternative to leasehold; and very importantly in the context of today's debate, the regulation of management agents. I have to say that I think that that may very much be the space that we need to be in when the review reports before too long. I'm really pleased that the UK Government is also engaging with the Law Commission and looking at these issues, because some of them do fall into the area of consumer law and of the law of property, where we will need to see action from the UK Government as well. However, we don't need to wait to start to address this issue. Our success in securing the agreement of the major house builders to no longer sell new-build houses as leasehold, unless absolutely necessary, is very much down to the constructive relationship that we've built with them through our house builder engagement programme. So, I give Members my commitment today to open up discussions with the sector on the issues that we've heard in this debate today using that forum.
Welsh: Diolch yn fawr iawn, ac rwyf fi hefyd yn ddiolchgar i Hefin am gyflwyno'r ddadl hon heddiw. Mae llawer iawn o sylw wedi bod yn y cyfryngau yn ddiweddar ac mae Aelodau'r Cynulliad wedi codi rhai pryderon difrifol iawn ynglŷn â'r materion amrywiol sy'n effeithio ar bobl sy'n berchen ar eu cartrefi ar sail lesddaliadol. Roeddwn yn falch o gyhoeddi pecyn o fesurau i ddechrau ymdrin â'r pryderon hynny ychydig dros wythnos yn ôl. Fodd bynnag, mae dadl Hefin heddiw yn taflu goleuni ar y materion sy'n effeithio ar bobl sy'n berchen ar eu cartrefi ar sail rydd-ddaliadol, ac yn benodol lle maent yn byw ar ystadau ac yn ddarostyngedig i ffioedd rheoli lle nad oes ganddynt, yn wahanol i lesddeiliaid, unrhyw ffordd o herio'r taliadau hynny. Pedair munud yn unig sydd gennyf i ymateb i'r ddadl hon, felly ni wnaf ailadrodd y pryderon y mae'r Aelodau wedi eu mynegi mor glir, ond rwy'n eu clywed ac rwy'n eu cydnabod. Mae'n amlwg i mi fod llawer o'r pryderon rydym wedi'u clywed yn deillio o'r un lle â'r pryderon ynghylch lesddaliadau a glywsom yn y ddadl gan Aelod unigol dan arweiniad Mick Antoniw, yn ymwneud â'r angen dybryd i broffesiynoli a chodi safonau ymddygiad yn y sector rheoli eiddo ac ystadau. Ac rwy'n dweud 'proffesiynoli a chodi safonau ymddygiad' oherwydd, mewn gwirionedd, rhai o'r cwmnïau mwyaf proffesiynol yw'r rhai sy'n arddangos yr ymddygiad gwaethaf. Bydd Aelodau wedi fy nghlywed yn dweud, mewn ymateb i ddadl Mick Antoniw, na fyddaf yn cilio rhag deddfwriaeth a byddant hefyd wedi fy nghlywed yn dweud ein bod yn ymwneud ar hyn o bryd ag adolygiad Comisiwn y Gyfraith o gyfraith breswyl, lesddaliadol a chyfunddaliadol. Mae gan yr adolygiad hwnnw dair elfen allweddol: mae'n cynnwys rhyddfreintiau lesddaliadol; cyfunddeiliadaeth fel dewis amgen yn lle lesddeiliadaeth; ac yn bwysig iawn yng nghyd-destun y ddadl heddiw, rheoleiddio asiantau rheoli. Mae'n rhaid i mi ddweud fy mod yn credu mai dyna'n wir lle y dylem fod pan gyflwynir adroddiad yr adolygiad cyn bo hir. Rwy'n falch iawn fod Llywodraeth y DU yn ymgysylltu â Chomisiwn y Gyfraith hefyd ac yn edrych ar y materion hyn, oherwydd mae rhai ohonynt yn perthyn i faes cyfraith defnyddwyr a chyfraith eiddo, lle bydd angen inni weld camau gweithredu gan Lywodraeth y DU yn ogystal. Fodd bynnag, nid oes angen i ni aros cyn dechrau mynd i'r afael â hyn. Mae ein llwyddiant i sicrhau cytundeb y prif adeiladwyr tai i beidio â gwerthu tai a adeiladir o'r newydd fel lesddaliadau mwyach, oni bai bod hynny'n gwbl angenrheidiol, yn deillio i raddau helaeth o'r berthynas adeiladol rydym wedi'i meithrin â hwy drwy ein rhaglen ymgysylltu adeiladwyr tai. Felly, rwy'n rhoi fy ymrwymiad i'r Aelodau heddiw y byddaf yn dechrau trafodaethau gyda'r sector ar y materion a glywsom yn y ddadl hon heddiw gan ddefnyddio'r fforwm hwnnw.