English: Turning to what Neil Hamilton said, I thank him too for what he said about the fiscal framework and those aspects of the draft budget, the free school meals and the treatment of the mega grant that he welcomed as well. I didn't agree with him, of course, on what he said on the £15 million in relation to waste capital. I think that will be money very well spent. We know that if we are able to invest in some new, state-of-the-art equipment local authorities will be able to recycle things that, today, they can't. Today, they go to landfill. With the new equipment in place, those local authorities will be able to do more in this field. That was the persuasive case that my colleague, Lesley Griffiths, put to me during the budget preparation period, and I've been very glad to be able to recognise the strength of the case that she made. Mr Hamilton quoted a figure from the period when Gordon Brown was Chancellor, and pointed out that, when Gordon Brown was Chancellor, he was reducing the deficit year after year, and then pointed to the fact that it had ballooned out of control under the current Conservative performance, but he then tried to say that this was the result of a socialist experiment; I did lose my ability to follow his argument there. But where he gets it wrong is the point that Mike Hedges made: for Neil Hamilton, all expenditure is essentially wasteful, whereas, if you believe in the socialist way of doing things, expenditure is an investment. It creates the conditions in which the economy can expand, and, when the economy expands, so there is a greater flow of revenues in from that expanded economy, and that's the way in which you are able to create a benign cycle rather than the cut-your-way-to-success that we've been offered since 2010 and which has so transparently failed to deliver. Jane Hutt made a very important reference to the IPPR report and what it tells us about how fair taxation can improve economic performance across the UK economy. I'm very grateful to her for what she said about Nye Bevan. Bevan said that the language of priorities is the religion of socialism, and, in this budget, you see our effort to align the expenditure that we have with the priorities that matter to us most here in Wales. I'm grateful to Jane for drawing attention to the £35 million we are able to replace in the social housing grant. It's one of the things I'm most pleased about in the budget, that we will be able to sustain the investment we make as a Government in that most important thing of providing decent housing for families across Wales who today find themselves living in circumstances that none of us would be prepared to regard as satisfactory in our own lives. There is financial transaction capital reflected in the budget, but there will be more, I hope, at the final budget stage. I'm working closely with my colleague, the water-throwing Ken Skates - sorry, I'm sure he was trying not to draw attention to that - [ Laughter. ] - to bring forward a series of financial transaction capital ideas that his department is particularly developing in an innovative way. We are having to use our own budget for the EU transition fund, but we have been able to put £140 million of financial transaction capital into the Welsh investment bank, which is being used particularly to support businesses through the EU exit. On negotiations on powers for air passenger duty, I'm afraid I've only got bad news to report to colleagues. It is very good that the Welsh Affairs Select Committee has announced its inquiry into this, because it will allow us to make our case yet again as to why Wales should not be uniquely disadvantaged in not being allowed to have air passenger duty devolved to us, but I have a letter from the Secretary of State for Wales addressed to the First Minister only a few days ago, and, once again, the Secretary of State for Wales tells us that he cannot support this idea because he's more worried about England and about the impact of it there - by the way, an impact that independent reports that we have supplied to him tell him does not exist. But he is more worried about his responsibilities to Bristol than he is about his responsibilities to Wales, and that is very deeply disappointing.
Welsh: Gan droi at yr hyn a ddywedodd Neil Hamilton, diolch iddo hefyd am yr hyn a ddywedodd am y fframwaith cyllidol ac am yr agweddau hynny ar y gyllideb ddrafft, y prydau ysgol am ddim a sut yr ymdriniwyd â'r grant sylweddol y mae ef hefyd yn ei groesawu. Doeddwn i ddim yn cytuno ag ef, wrth gwrs, ar yr hyn a ddywedodd am y £15 miliwn ynglŷn â chyfalaf gwastraff. Rwy'n credu y bydd hynny'n arian a gaiff ei wario'n ddoeth iawn. Rydym yn gwybod pe byddem yn gallu buddsoddi mewn offer modern newydd, yno byddai'r awdurdodau lleol yn gallu ailgylchu pethau na allan nhw eu hailgylchu heddiw. Heddiw, maen nhw'n mynd i safleoedd tirlenwi. Gyda'r offer newydd ar waith, bydd yr awdurdodau lleol hynny yn gallu gwneud mwy yn y maes hwn. Dyna oedd yr achos argyhoeddiadol a gyflwynodd fy nghyd-Aelod, Lesley Griffiths, i mi yn ystod y cyfnod paratoi cyllideb, ac rwyf wedi bod yn falch iawn o allu cydnabod cryfder y ddadl a wnaeth hi. Roedd Mr Hamilton yn dyfynnu ffigur o gyfnod pan oedd Gordon Brown yn Ganghellor, a thynnodd sylw at y ffaith, pan oedd Gordon Brown yn Ganghellor, ei fod yn lleihau'r diffyg o flwyddyn i flwyddyn, ac wedyn tynnodd sylw at y ffaith ei fod wedi chwyddo allan o reolaeth o dan berfformiad presennol y Ceidwadwyr, ond ceisiodd wedyn ddweud bod hyn o ganlyniad i arbrawf sosialaidd; fe gollais fy ngallu i ddilyn ei ddadl bryd hynny. Ond yr hyn y mae'n anghywir yn ei gylch yw'r sylw a wnaeth Mike Hedges: i Neil Hamilton, mae pob gwariant yn wastraffus yn y bôn, ond, os ydych yn credu mewn ffordd sosialaidd o wneud pethau, mae gwariant yn fuddsoddiad. Mae'n creu'r amodau y gall yr economi ehangu ynddyn nhw, a phan fydd yr economi yn ehangu, bydd felly mwy o refeniw yn llifo o'r economi ehangach honno, a dyna'r ffordd y byddwch yn gallu creu cylch cadarnhaol yn hytrach na chwtogi-eich-ffordd-i-lwyddiant sydd wedi bod yn cael ei gynnig inni ers 2010 ac sydd wedi methu i gyflawni fel sydd i'w weld yn glir. Gwnaeth Jane Hutt gyfeiriad pwysig iawn at adroddiad y Sefydliad Ymchwil Polisi Cyhoeddus a'r hyn y mae'n ei ddweud wrthym ni am sut y gall trethu teg wella perfformiad economaidd ym mhob rhan o economi'r DU. Rwy'n ddiolchgar iawn iddi am yr hyn a ddywedodd am Nye Bevan. Dywedodd Bevan mai iaith blaenoriaethau yw crefydd sosialaeth, ac, yn y gyllideb hon, fe welwch chi ein hymdrech i alinio'r gwariant sydd gennym ni â'r blaenoriaethau pwysicaf i ni yma yng Nghymru. Rwy'n ddiolchgar i Jane am dynnu sylw at y £35 miliwn y gallwn ni ei rhoi yn ôl yn y grant tai cymdeithasol. Dyma un o'r pethau rwy'n fwyaf balch ohono yn y gyllideb, y byddwn ni'n gallu cynnal y buddsoddiad a wnawn ni fel Llywodraeth yn y peth pwysicaf hwnnw o ddarparu tai safonol i deuluoedd ledled Cymru sy'n canfod eu hunain yn byw mewn amgylchiadau na fyddai unrhyw un ohonom ni yn barod i'w hystyried yn foddhaol yn ein bywydau ein hunain. Caiff cyfalaf trafodion ariannol ei adlewyrchu yn y gyllideb, ond bydd mwy, gobeithio, yng ngham terfynol y gyllideb. Rwy'n gweithio'n agos gyda fy nghyd-Aelod, y dyn sy'n taflu dŵr, Ken Skates - mae'n ddrwg gennyf, rwy'n siŵr ei fod yn ceisio peidio â thynnu sylw at hynny - [ Chwerthin.] - i gyflwyno cyfres o syniadau cyfalaf am drafodion ariannol y mae ei adran ef yn enwedig yn eu datblygu mewn ffordd arloesol. Rydym ni'n gorfod defnyddio ein cyllideb ein hunain ar gyfer cronfa bontio ymadael â'r UE, ond rydym ni wedi gallu rhoi £140 miliwn o gyfalaf trafodion ariannol ym manc buddsoddi Cymru, sy'n cael ei ddefnyddio i gefnogi busnesau drwy'r broses o adael yr UE yn arbennig. O ran y trafodaethau am bwerau dros dollau teithwyr awyr, mae arnaf ofn mai dim ond newyddion drwg sydd gennyf i'w hadrodd i gyd-Aelodau. Mae'n dda iawn bod y Pwyllgor Dethol ar faterion Cymreig wedi cyhoeddi ei ymchwiliad i hyn, oherwydd bydd yn caniatáu inni gyflwyno ein hachos eto pam na ddylai Cymru fod o dan yr anfantais unigryw o beidio â chael tollau teithwyr awyr wedi'u datganoli i ni, ond mae gennyf lythyr oddi wrth Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru at sylw Prif Weinidog Cymru a anfonwyd dim ond ambell ddiwrnod yn ôl, ac, unwaith eto, mae Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru yn dweud wrthym ni na all gefnogi'r syniad hwn gan ei fod yn poeni mwy am Loegr ac am effaith hyn yno - gyda llaw, effaith y mae adroddiadau annibynnol yr ydym ni wedi eu rhoi iddo yn dweud wrtho nad yw'n bodoli. Ond mae'n poeni mwy am ei gyfrifoldebau i Fryste nag y mae am ei gyfrifoldebau i Gymru, ac mae hynny'n siomedig iawn iawn.