English: I'm very grateful to Mike Hedges for those contributions and for his ongoing engagement on the issue of council tax, and I share his concern about the importance of more regular revaluations. I think that it has been far too long since the last revaluation. Painful though I understand them to be, I think it is more important that we do it more regularly, and then the changes won't be so extreme in some cases. So, I think that that kind of regular revaluation is important and that's something that we're consulting on in our consultation that is launched today - so, keen to have those views formally expressed through the consultation as well. And then, looking to the future, we can consider what technology might be available to us. Can we do rolling revaluations? What would we do with information as it comes through in terms of house sales? How can we be sure that we're not picking up a spike in house sales at that moment in time? So, there are lots and lots of different things for us to be considering in terms of the regularity of revaluations. But that's absolutely our intention, to make revaluation much more frequent. I think Mike Hedges described perfectly how council tax is a regressive tax; it's not a progressive tax, as we would normally want a tax to be. It very much means that people who have the least and who are least able to contribute are ending up being asked to contribute a larger share. So, this is one of the things that our approach to making council tax fairer is aiming to deal with as well - rebalancing the council tax that local authorities collect. And I've heard Mike's arguments in terms of the way in which he would like to see the additional bands, and potentially the splitting of the bands to have that much more nuanced size of band as well, so, obviously, we'll be considering that as part of our overall consultation. I think we also need to consider as part of that the appeals system and to what extent we create a system where we get the balance right in terms of not creating too much confusion or likelihood of appeals, but having appeals where they are genuinely, in a sense, ones that are likely or potentially to be changing the band that people are in. So, lots for us to consider. I think the contributions so far have been really helpful and I think have started to kick off our consultation very well.
Welsh: Rwy'n ddiolchgar iawn i Mike Hedges am y cyfraniadau yna ac am ei ymgysylltiad parhaus ar fater y dreth gyngor, ac rwyf innau hefyd yn pryderu am bwysigrwydd ailbrisio mwy rheolaidd. Rwyf i o'r farn yr aeth llawer gormod o amser heibio ers yr ailbrisiad diwethaf. Er fy mod i'n deall pa mor anodd ydyn nhw, rwy'n credu ei bod hi'n bwysicach ein bod ni'n eu gwneud nhw'n fwy rheolaidd, ac yna ni fydd y newidiadau mor eithafol mewn rhai achosion. Felly, rwy'n credu bod ailbrisio rheolaidd fel hyn yn bwysig ac mae hynny'n rhywbeth yr ydym ni'n ymgynghori yn ei gylch yn ein hymgynghoriad ni sy'n cael ei lansio heddiw - felly, yn awyddus i fynegi'r safbwyntiau hynny'n ffurfiol drwy'r ymgynghoriad hefyd. Ac yna, gan edrych i'r dyfodol, fe allwn ni ystyried pa dechnoleg a allai fod ar gael i ni. A allwn ni gynnal ailbrisiadau treigl? Beth fyddem ni'n ei wneud gyda gwybodaeth wrth iddi ddod drwodd o ran gwerthu tai? Sut allwn ni fod yn siŵr nad ydym ni'n cael ein camarwain gan gynnydd mawr dros dro o ran gwerthiant tai ar yr adeg honno? Felly, mae llawer o bethau amrywiol i ni eu hystyried o ran amlder yr ailbrisiadau. Ond dyna'n hollol yw ein bwriad ni, i ailbrisio yn llawer mwy aml. Rwy'n credu bod Mike Hedges wedi disgrifio yn gwbl gywir sut y gall y dreth gyngor fod yn dreth atchweliadol; nid yw hi'n dreth flaengar, fel y byddem ni'n awyddus fel arfer i dreth fod. Mae'n golygu bod y bobl sydd â lleiaf o fodd ac sydd leiaf abl i gyfrannu yn gorfod cyfrannu mwy. Felly, dyma un o'r pethau y mae ein dull ni o gael mwy o degwch o ran y dreth gyngor yn bwriadu ymdrin ag ef hefyd - ail-gydbwyso'r dreth gyngor y mae awdurdodau lleol yn ei chasglu. Ac rwyf i wedi clywed dadleuon Mike o ran y ffordd yr hoffai ef weld y bandiau ychwanegol, a hollti'r bandiau o bosibl er mwyn i ni fod â bandiau â gwahaniaethau mwy cynnil rhyngddyn nhw hefyd, felly, yn amlwg, fe fyddwn ni'n ystyried hynny yn rhan o'n hymgynghoriad cyffredinol ni. Rwy'n credu bod angen i ni ystyried hefyd, yn rhan o hynny, y system apeliadau ac i ba raddau yr ydym ni'n creu system lle yr ydym ni'n taro'r cydbwysedd cywir o ran peidio â chreu gormod o ddryswch neu debygolrwydd o apeliadau, ond bod ag apeliadau sy'n wirioneddol debygol neu o bosibl yn newid y band y mae pobl ynddo. Felly, mae llawer i ni ei ystyried. Rwy'n credu bod y cyfraniadau hyd yn hyn wedi bod o gymorth mawr ac rwy'n credu eu bod nhw wedi rhoi cychwyn da iawn i'n hymgynghoriad ni.