English: Thank you very much, temporary Deputy Presiding Officer, and thank you for the opportunity to participate in this debate today. Thank you to the Finance Committee for bringing this motion forward. Unfortunately, because of timetabling in this place this year, I can't be a member of the Finance Committee and I do regret that fact, but I am grateful to the committee for its thorough work in giving consideration to the priorities that that we face in an entirely new context. As ever, there is a broad range of priorities that have been set out by those who responded to the committee's engagement work, but these are not normal times, and therefore the priorities can't be normal either. We have an unprecedented context, following an unprecedented period of four months, which will mean a lot longer than four months in terms of difficult times ahead. And the implications of what we've lived through, and continue to live through, are going to be with us in terms of spending decisions for years to come. I do think that we have to be bold in our response to this situation. There are so many individual things in our lives - just look around us - that have changed as a result of this pandemic. There are things that we hope to put behind us as soon as possible, and return to normality, but there are other things that we all hope will remain with us - the positive experiences, the lessons that we've learnt, and the change in mindset that has emerged over the past few months. And that's what I would like to see reflected in the way budgeting happens within Welsh Government and in terms of the scrutiny that our Senedd provides of it. There are specific things, such as our understanding of the value of local government. As Mike Hedges said, we must ensure that, through our budgetary process, we reflect the fact that we have once again come to appreciate the work done by local government. We must bear in mind that care for others has become a more valuable commodity in all of our minds now. And whilst I and Plaid Cymru have been calling for the adoption of well-being budgeting as has happened in other nations - I've been calling for this for quite some time - there's a different context for that now and I think that thinking about making spending decisions in a way that truly takes account of their impact on people and their individual circumstances has become more important than ever. I suppose that decisions on spending on environmental issues is also part of that. We've come to appreciate the world around us and the threat posed to our environment in a very different way during this pandemic. So, whilst many of us have been calling for the prioritisation of expenditure on the climate crisis, that has become more important still now. What the research of the Finance Committee has done is to demonstrate very clearly that people want that to be reflected in Welsh budgets. If I remember correctly, 78 per cent of those that responded to the Twitter poll - . Of course, we can't be entirely confident in such a poll, but it does give us a signal that almost 80 per cent of respondents felt that environmental decisions should be driving decisions on expenditure and the budget. There are some specifics that we could mention and that I would want to see included in a budget that responds to the crisis - things such as an employment guarantee for young people between 18 and 24 years of age; funding for reskilling Wales as a result of this crisis, and the need to build back economically and to upskill our young people to do that; the need for a Welsh renewal fund, billions of pounds, and more borrowing powers in order to deliver that. And I will be encouraging and supporting the Government in pushing for changes to our fiscal rules in order to ensure that we can make those investments now, in the ensuing period, because this is the time when we need to look at things differently and build a Wales that is fit for the future.
Welsh: Diolch yn fawr iawn, Dirprwy Lywydd dros dro, a diolch am y cyfle i gymryd rhan yn y ddadl yma y prynhawn yma. Diolch i'r Pwyllgor Cyllid am ddod â'r ddadl yma gerbron. Yn anffodus, oherwydd amser eleni yn y lle yma, dydw i ddim yn gallu bod yn Aelod o'r Pwyllgor Cyllid bellach ac rwy'n gresynu at hynny, ond rydw i yn ddiolchgar bob amser am waith trylwyr y pwyllgor wrth roi ystyriaeth i'r blaenoriaethau sydd o'n blaenau ni mewn cyd-destun newydd iawn. Fel bob amser, mae yna ystod eang o flaenoriaethau wedi cael eu nodi gan y rhai a wnaeth ymateb i waith ymgysylltu'r pwyllgor, ond nid cyfnod normal ydy hwn, felly gall y blaenoriaethau ddim bod yn rhai normal ychwaith. Mae gennym ni gyd-destun di-gynsail, yn dilyn pedwar mis di-gynsail, sy'n mynd i olygu llawer mwy na phedwar mis o gyfnod anodd o'n blaenau ni. Mae canlyniadau a goblygiadau'r hyn rydyn ni wedi bod yn byw drwyddo fo, ac yn parhau i fyw drwyddo fo, yn mynd i fod efo ni o ran penderfyniadau gwariant am flynyddoedd i ddod. Mae'n rhaid, dwi'n meddwl, inni fod yn feiddgar yn ein hymateb i'r sefyllfa yma. Mae yna gymaint o bethau unigol yn ein bywydau ni - edrychwch o'n cwmpas ni - sydd wedi newid yn sgil y pandemig yma. Mae yna bethau rydyn ni'n gobeithio y gallwn ni eu rhoi nhw y tu cefn inni mor fuan â phosib, a dychwelyd i normalrwydd, mae yna bethau eraill rydyn ni gyd yn gobeithio fydd yn aros efo ni am yn hir - o brofiadau positif rydyn ni wedi eu dysgu, a'r newidiadau mewn meddylfryd sydd wedi dod i'r amlwg dros y misoedd diwethaf. A dyna fuaswn i'n leicio ei weld yn cael ei adlewyrchu yn y ffordd mae cyllidebu yn digwydd o fewn Llywodraeth Cymru ac yn sgrwtini ein Senedd ni ohono fo. Mae yna bethau penodol iawn, fel ein dealltwriaeth ni, unwaith eto, o werth llywodraeth leol. Fel dywedodd Mike Hedges, mae eisiau sicrhau ein bod ni, drwy brosesau cyllido, yn adlewyrchu'r ffaith ein bod ni unwaith eto wedi dod i werthfawrogi'r gwaith sy'n cael ei wneud gan lywodraeth leol. Mae eisiau cofio bod gofal tuag at eraill wedi dod yn commodity mwy gwerthfawr yn ein meddyliau ni gyd erbyn hyn. Tra dwi i wedi bod, ym Mhlaid Cymru, yn galw am fabwysiadu prosesau cyllido llesol - well-being budgeting - fel sydd wedi bod yn digwydd mewn gwledydd eraill - dwi wedi bod yn galw am hyn ers tro - mae yna gyd-destun gwahanol i hynny rŵan, dwi'n meddwl. Ac mae meddwl am wneud penderfyniadau gwariant mewn ffordd sydd go iawn yn ystyried pa effaith mae'r rhain yn mynd i gael ar bobl a'u hamgylchiadau nhw yn dod yn fwy pwysig nag erioed - am wn i, bod penderfyniadau ar wariant ar faterion amgylcheddol yn rhan o hynny. Rydyn ni wedi dod i werthfawrogi y byd o'n cwmpas ni a'r bygythiad i'r byd o'n cwmpas ni mewn ffordd wahanol yn ystod y pandemig yma. Felly, tra mae llawer ohonon ni wedi bod yn galw am flaenoriaethu'r gwariant a'r ymateb i'r argyfwng hinsawdd, mae hynny wedi dod yn fwy pwysig rŵan. A beth mae'r gwaith ymchwil gan y Pwyllgor Cyllid yn ei wneud ydy dangos yn gryf iawn fod pobl am i hynny gael ei adlewyrchu yng nghyllidebau Cymru. Os ydw i'n cofio'n iawn, roedd 78 y cant o'r rheini wnaeth ymateb i'r pôl ar Twitter - . Wrth gwrs, dydyn ni ddim yn gallu rhoi gwerth llwyr ar bethau felly, ond mae o'n rhoi arwydd inni fod bron i 80 y cant yn meddwl y dylai penderfyniadau amgylcheddol fod yn gyrru penderfyniadau ar wariant ac ar y gyllideb. Mae yna bethau penodol y gallwn i sôn amdanyn nhw y buaswn i'n dymuno eu gweld mewn cyllideb sy'n ymateb i'r argyfwng - pethau fel guarantee cyflogaeth i bobl ifanc rhwng 18 a 24 oed; arian ar gyfer ailsgilio Cymru yn sgil yr argyfwng yma, a'r angen i daro nôl yn economaidd a sgilio ein pobl ifanc i wneud hynny; yr angen am gael cronfa i adnewyddu Cymru - biliynau o bunnau, a rhagor o allu benthyca er mwyn delifro'r rheini. Ac mi fyddaf i'n annog a chefnogi'r Llywodraeth wrth wthio am newidiadau i'n rheolau fiscal ni i sicrhau ein bod ni yn gallu gwneud y buddsoddiadau hynny rŵan, yn y cyfnod sydd i ddod, achos rŵan rydyn ni angen edrych ar bethau mewn ffordd wahanol ac adeiladu Cymru sy'n ffit ar gyfer y dyfodol.