English: Thank you, Presiding Officer. I move our amendment in the name of Caroline Jones. UKIP believe that it's the people in the education system at all levels who have a better idea of where the waste is and where any incorrect spending priorities are. They're the people who know what changes are needed to release more money for front-line teaching. One of the things that has gone wrong in the Welsh education system is that decisions have been taken at arm's-length from those who really know what's going on. We therefore support much of Plaid's motion, but the reason that we are proposing an amendment, and will vote against Plaid's motion, is that although there's a need to reconsider funding models, we think the people with the pragmatic and most effective solutions are to be found among the people who have to work with those funding models every day. They should be given a wide enough remit so that they have the freedom to think outside the box. The fact that Plaid mention looking at other funding models suggests to me that they already have a preferred funding model in mind. We agree that a cut in bureaucracy would be a good thing, and obviously we all want a system that's transparent, so neither objective is a new one. But, again, the answers to where cuts in red tape should be made, and how this system can be made more transparent, aren't to be found in this place; they're to be found amongst the stakeholders who are having to work with this system day in, day out, week in, week out. Labour's amendment is nothing short of an admission that they've got it wrong, saying that they're taking steps to reduce the extra workload they've created, to reduce the classroom bureaucracy that they themselves have increased, and to boost the professional learning that they have let slide for the last 20 years. For that reason, the fact that they are the ones who have let Welsh education sink, they cannot be trusted to know how to fix it when they haven't known how to for the past two decades. The Labour amendment rehearses a number of steps that have previously been announced, but I would suggest that if these measures were bearing the required fruit, we wouldn't be having this debate now. So, although UKIP are largely supportive of this motion, we have proposed our amendment to make it clear that it is the relevant stakeholders who should be the ones making the recommendations to Welsh Government, rather than Welsh Government bringing in academics - who are very worthy, don't get me wrong, but, again, the answers lie on the front line - to advise them, as in other areas of education policy. Our amendment proposes that stakeholders be brought together and provides for a wider remit for that work, in the form of considering how budgets can be streamlined and simplified, rather than asking those stakeholders to focus on the particular issues of bureaucracy, to push money away from mysterious management and into tangible teaching. So I'll say again: let the stakeholders give their advice and make their recommendations free from any pet proposal proposed from above. I therefore ask you to support our amendment. Thank you.
Welsh: Diolch i chi, Lywydd. Rwy'n cynnig ein gwelliant yn enw Caroline Jones. Mae UKIP yn credu mai'r bobl yn y system addysg ar bob lefel sydd â'r syniad gorau o ble mae'r gwastraff a lle y ceir unrhyw flaenoriaethau gwariant anghywir. Dyna'r bobl sy'n gwybod pa newidiadau sydd eu hangen i ryddhau mwy o arian ar gyfer addysgu rheng flaen. Un o'r pethau sydd wedi mynd o'i le yn y system addysg yng Nghymru yw bod penderfyniadau wedi'u gwneud hyd braich oddi wrth y rhai sy'n gwybod yn iawn beth sy'n digwydd. Rydym yn cefnogi llawer o gynnig Plaid Cymru felly, ond y rheswm yr ydym yn cynnig gwelliant, a'r rheswm pam y byddwn yn pleidleisio yn erbyn cynnig Plaid Cymru, er bod angen ailystyried modelau ariannu, yw ein bod yn credu mai'r bobl sydd â'r atebion pragmatig a mwyaf effeithiol yw'r rhai sy'n gorfod gweithio gyda'r modelau ariannu hynny bob dydd. Dylid rhoi cylch gwaith digon eang iddynt fel eu bod yn rhydd i feddwl yn greadigol. Mae'r ffaith bod Plaid Cymru yn sôn am edrych ar fodelau ariannu eraill yn awgrymu i mi fod ganddynt eisoes fodel ariannu dewisol dan ystyriaeth. Rydym yn cytuno y byddai lleihau biwrocratiaeth yn beth da, ac yn amlwg mae pawb ohonom am i'r system fod yn dryloyw, felly nid oes yr un o'r amcanion yn newydd. Ond unwaith eto, nid yw'r atebion ynglŷn â ble y dylid gwneud toriadau mewn biwrocratiaeth, a sut y gellir gwneud y system yn fwy tryloyw, i'w gweld yn y lle hwn; maent i'w canfod ymysg y rhanddeiliaid sy'n gorfod gweithio gyda'r system hon ddydd ar ôl dydd, wythnos ar ôl wythnos. Nid yw gwelliant Llafur yn ddim llai na chyfaddefiad eu bod wedi mynd ati yn y ffordd anghywir, ac mae'n dweud eu bod yn rhoi camau ar waith i leihau'r llwyth gwaith ychwanegol y maent wedi ei greu, i leihau'r fiwrocratiaeth yn yr ystafell ddosbarth y maent hwy eu hunain wedi ei gynyddu, ac i roi hwb i'r dysgu proffesiynol y maent wedi gadael iddo lithro dros yr 20 mlynedd diwethaf. Am y rheswm hwnnw, y ffaith mai hwy sydd wedi gadael i addysg lithro yng Nghymru, ni ellir ymddiried ynddynt i wybod sut i'w drwsio pan nad ydynt wedi gwybod sut i wneud hynny dros y ddau ddegawd diwethaf. Mae gwelliant Llafur yn rhestru nifer o gamau sydd eisoes wedi'u cyhoeddi, ond buaswn yn awgrymu, pe bai'r mesurau hyn yn dwyn y ffrwyth sy'n ofynnol, na fyddem yn cael y ddadl hon bellach. Felly, er bod UKIP i raddau helaeth yn gefnogol i'r cynnig hwn, rydym wedi cynnig ein gwelliant i'w gwneud yn glir mai'r rhanddeiliaid perthnasol a ddylai wneud yr argymhellion i Lywodraeth Cymru, yn hytrach na bod Llywodraeth Cymru yn dod ag academyddion i mewn - academyddion teilwng iawn, rhaid i mi ddweud, ond unwaith eto, mae'r atebion ar y rheng flaen - i roi cyngor iddynt, fel mewn meysydd eraill o bolisi addysg. Mae ein gwelliant yn cynnig bod rhanddeiliaid yn cael eu dwyn ynghyd ac yn darparu ar gyfer cylch gwaith ehangach ar gyfer y gwaith hwnnw, o ran ystyried sut y gellir symleiddio cyllidebau, yn hytrach na gofyn i'r rhanddeiliaid hynny ganolbwyntio ar faterion penodol biwrocratiaeth, er mwyn gwthio arian i ffwrdd oddi wrth reoli annirnadwy ac i mewn i addysg ddiriaethol. Felly fe ddywedaf eto: gadewch i'r rhanddeiliaid roi eu cyngor a gwneud eu hargymhellion yn rhydd oddi wrth unrhyw hoff gynnig a argymhellir oddi fry. Felly, gofynnaf i chi gefnogi ein gwelliant. Diolch.