English: I'm very pleased that this issue is being debated today. I have previously asked for a Welsh Government statement or debate on this issue, as children going hungry or relying on foodbanks is not what I and, I believe, most Members here want to see. I also submitted many written questions this year on free school meals. For many children, the free school meal is their major meal of the day. To repeat something I have said many times in the Chamber, on school holidays, parents must provide an additional 10 meals per child a week during school holidays. If you've got four children, that's 40 meals. That is why I've continually asked for and now welcome the continued provision of free school meals during the school holidays at Christmas and Easter. Will the Government confirm that this is also to be provided at half term as well, because children will still need to be fed then? I'm also calling on the Government, when they set their 2020-21 budget, to budget for free school meals across all school holidays including all the half-term holidays. I'm not sure that all Members understand poverty. Some of us understand it from personal experience; to us, it's a lived experience, not an abstract debating point. It is real. It affected us and people we grew up with and went to school with. So, those of us who come from a certain background know what a school dinner is. The reason we know what a school dinner is is because it is the main meal of the day and it is followed by 'tea'. It keeps many children adequately fed, that's why I'm so pleased that it'll be provided across the next holidays. When I was in school, pupils would not attend lessons, they'd go on what used to be described as 'the mitch', but they'd come into school at lunch time in order to get their free school meal so that they would be fed, because that would be the main meal that they'd have that day. If you want to know someone's background, ask them when dinner is - is it at midday or evening? People like myself would certainly say 'midday'; I think most people in this Chamber would say 'evening'. I support the first part of the motion, which calls on the Welsh Government to immediately amend the eligibility criteria for free school meals so that any child, any family receiving universal credit or equivalent benefit, and any child in a family with no recourse to public funds is eligible. Expanding eligibility would help struggling families to cope. It would improve, as I think Delyth Jewell said, educational outcomes and help tackle in-work poverty. I think we sometimes forget that if children are poorly fed, their performance in the classroom is likely to be substantially less. If you're worried about eating, studying mathematics is probably at a much lower level of importance in your life. Over half the children of Wales who live below the UK poverty line are not entitled to free school meals. Of the 129,000 school-aged children living below the poverty line in Wales, over 70,000 are not eligible for free school meals. Many of them are my constituents. They're mainly there because their parents are in low-paid jobs that take them over the eligibility threshold. In addition, nearly 6,000 children in Wales are not normally eligible for free school meals because their families have no recourse to public funds. Many of these children live in deep, long-term poverty and are in urgent need of support. The Welsh Government needs to urgently address this for next year. Do Plaid Cymru believe that the provision of free school meals to every child is a good use of limited resources? Is it costed? Will it appear in Plaid Cymru's proposed budget for 2020-21? What is the estimated cost of everybody? Is there a capacity issue? If the school uses the hall, as it does in many primary schools, for providing meals, and teaching such as physical education, how will it fit together? Kitchen capacity; serving capacity; organising several sittings based upon the capacity of the hall; timing of the sittings - there are schools that now have two sittings, and how would three or four be organised? On universal provision, a great headline, ill thought out. But we need to expand the provision of free school meals to all children in need. We need to commit to expanding the provision, we need to commit to continuing it through the holidays. This, as I said earlier, will improve educational attainment. Children well fed will do better because they're not worrying about eating but they're spending a lot more time thinking about what they're being taught. How is it to be funded? I think I'm one of the few people who actually comes up with ideas about how things should be funded - not something that will go down very well with my own party, I would expect. As I keep on saying, out of the economy and transport portfolio. As I keep on saying, higher educational attainment is the best economic development tool - far better than bribing companies to bring branch factories to Wales, which they keep here for a few years and then leave. We need to ensure that our children are well fed, that every child can do the best they can, so that we have a highly skilled workforce, and that will answer, perhaps, what Suzy Davies said about low pay. We've got low pay because we've got low skill. We need to improve our skills base. One of the ways of doing that is making sure that children are fed when they are going into the classroom.
Welsh: Rwy'n falch iawn fod y mater hwn yn cael ei drafod heddiw. Gofynnais o'r blaen am ddatganiad neu ddadl gan Lywodraeth Cymru ar y mater, gan nad wyf yn credu mai plant sy'n llwglyd neu sy'n dibynnu ar fanciau bwyd yw'r hyn rwyf fi a'r rhan fwyaf o'r Aelodau yma am ei weld. Cyflwynais lawer o gwestiynau ysgrifenedig eleni hefyd ar brydau ysgol am ddim. I lawer o blant, y pryd ysgol am ddim yw eu prif bryd ar gyfer y dydd. I ailadrodd rhywbeth a ddywedais droeon yn y Siambr ar wyliau ysgol, rhaid i rieni ddarparu 10 pryd ychwanegol i bob plentyn yr wythnos yn ystod gwyliau'r ysgol. Os oes gennych bedwar o blant, dyna 40 pryd bwyd. Dyna pam rwyf wedi gofyn yn gyson am ddarpariaeth barhaus o brydau ysgol am ddim yn ystod gwyliau'r ysgol adeg y Nadolig a'r Pasg. A wnaiff y Llywodraeth gadarnhau y bydd hyn yn cael ei ddarparu yn ystod hanner tymor hefyd, oherwydd bydd angen bwydo plant bryd hynny hefyd? Rwyf hefyd yn galw ar y Llywodraeth, pan fyddant yn pennu eu cyllideb ar gyfer 2020-21, i gyllidebu ar gyfer prydau ysgol am ddim ar gyfer pob gwyliau ysgol gan gynnwys pob gwyliau hanner tymor. Nid wyf yn siŵr a yw pob Aelod yn deall tlodi. Mae rhai ohonom yn ei ddeall o brofiad personol; i ni, mae'n brofiad byw, nid pwynt haniaethol mewn dadl. Mae'n real. Effeithiodd arnom ni a phobl y cawsom ein magu gyda hwy ac yr aethom i'r ysgol gyda hwy. Felly, mae'r rheini ohonom sy'n dod o gefndir penodol yn gwybod beth yw cinio ysgol. Y rheswm pam ein bod yn gwybod beth yw cinio ysgol yw oherwydd mai dyma brif bryd y dydd ac fe'i dilynir gan 'de'. Mae'n cadw llawer o blant wedi'u bwydo'n ddigonol, dyna pam rwy'n falch iawn y bydd yn cael ei ddarparu dros y gwyliau nesaf. Pan oeddwn yn yr ysgol, ni fyddai disgyblion yn mynychu gwersi, byddent yn gwneud yr hyn a arferai gael ei ddisgrifio fel 'mitsio', ond byddent yn dod i'r ysgol amser cinio er mwyn cael eu pryd ysgol am ddim fel y byddent yn cael eu bwydo, oherwydd dyna fyddai'r prif bryd y byddent yn ei gael y diwrnod hwnnw. Os ydych am wybod beth yw cefndir rhywun, gofynnwch iddynt pryd mae cinio - ai am hanner dydd neu gyda'r nos? Byddai pobl fel fi'n sicr o ddweud 'canol dydd'; credaf y byddai'r rhan fwyaf o'r bobl yn y Siambr yn dweud 'gyda'r nos'. Rwy'n cefnogi rhan gyntaf y cynnig, sy'n galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru i ddiwygio'n syth y meini prawf cymhwysedd ar gyfer prydau ysgol am ddim fel bod unrhyw blentyn, unrhyw deulu sy'n cael credyd cynhwysol neu fudd-dal cyfatebol, ac unrhyw blentyn mewn teulu nad yw cyllid cyhoeddus ar gael iddynt yn gymwys. Byddai ehangu cymhwysedd yn helpu teuluoedd sy'n ei chael hi'n anodd ymdopi. Byddai'n gwella canlyniadau addysgol, fel y dywedodd Delyth Jewell, rwy'n credu, ac yn helpu i fynd i'r afael â thlodi mewn gwaith. Credaf ein bod weithiau'n anghofio, os yw plant yn cael eu bwydo'n wael, fod eu perfformiad yn yr ystafell ddosbarth yn debygol o fod yn sylweddol is. Os ydych chi'n poeni am fwyta, mae'n debyg fod astudio mathemateg yn llawer llai pwysig yn eich bywyd. Nid oes gan dros hanner plant Cymru sy'n byw islaw llinell dlodi'r DU hawl i gael prydau ysgol am ddim. O'r 129,000 o blant oedran ysgol sy'n byw islaw'r llinell dlodi yng Nghymru, nid yw dros 70,000 yn gymwys i gael prydau ysgol am ddim. Fy etholwyr i yw llawer ohonynt. Maent yno'n bennaf oherwydd bod eu rhieni mewn swyddi ar gyflogau isel sy'n eu codi dros y trothwy cymhwysedd. Yn ogystal, nid yw bron i 6,000 o blant yng Nghymru fel arfer yn gymwys i gael prydau ysgol am ddim gan nad yw cyllid cyhoeddus ar gael i'w teuluoedd. Mae llawer o'r plant hyn yn byw mewn tlodi dwys, hirdymor ac mae angen cymorth arnynt ar frys. Mae angen i Lywodraeth Cymru fynd i'r afael â hyn ar frys ar gyfer y flwyddyn nesaf. A yw Plaid Cymru yn credu bod darparu prydau ysgol am ddim i bob plentyn yn ddefnydd da o adnoddau cyfyngedig? A yw wedi'i gostio? A fydd yn ymddangos yng nghyllideb arfaethedig Plaid Cymru ar gyfer 2020-21? Beth yw'r amcangyfrif o gost cynnwys pawb? A oes problem o ran capasiti? Os yw'r ysgol yn defnyddio'r neuadd, fel y mae mewn llawer o ysgolion cynradd, ar gyfer darparu prydau bwyd, ac addysg megis addysg gorfforol, sut y daw'r cyfan at ei gilydd? Capasiti cegin; capasiti gweini; trefnu sawl eisteddiad yn seiliedig ar gapasiti'r neuadd; amseru eisteddiadau - mae gan rai ysgolion ddau eisteddiad nawr, a sut y gellid trefnu tri neu bedwar? Ar ddarparu cinio ysgol am ddim i bawb, pennawd gwych, heb ei ystyried yn llawn. Ond mae angen inni ehangu'r ddarpariaeth o brydau ysgol am ddim i bob plentyn mewn angen. Mae angen inni ymrwymo i ehangu'r ddarpariaeth, mae angen inni ymrwymo i'w pharhau drwy'r gwyliau. Bydd hyn, fel y dywedais yn gynharach, yn gwella cyrhaeddiad addysgol. Bydd plant sy'n cael eu bwydo'n dda yn gwneud yn well gan nad ydynt yn poeni am fwyta ac maent yn treulio llawer mwy o amser yn meddwl am yr hyn a ddysgir iddynt. Sut y caiff ei ariannu? Rwy'n credu fy mod yn un o'r ychydig bobl sy'n meddwl am syniadau ynglŷn â sut y dylid ariannu pethau - nid rhywbeth a fydd yn mynd i lawr yn dda iawn gyda fy mhlaid fy hun, byddwn yn disgwyl. Fel rwy'n dal i ddweud, allan o bortffolio'r economi a thrafnidiaeth. Fel y dywedaf o hyd, cyrhaeddiad addysgol uwch yw'r offeryn datblygu economaidd gorau - llawer gwell nag iro llaw cwmnïau i ddod â ffatrïoedd cangen i Gymru i'w cadw yma am ychydig flynyddoedd ac yna gadael. Mae angen inni sicrhau bod ein plant yn cael eu bwydo'n dda, ac y gall pob plentyn wneud y gorau y gallant, fel bod gennym weithlu medrus iawn, ac efallai y bydd hynny'n ateb yr hyn a ddywedodd Suzy Davies am gyflogau isel. Mae gennym gyflogau isel oherwydd bod gennym sgiliau isel. Mae angen inni wella ein sylfaen sgiliau. Un o'r ffyrdd o wneud hynny yw sicrhau bod plant wedi cael eu bwydo pan fyddant yn mynd i mewn i'r ystafell ddosbarth.