English: I'm very pleased that we now have a strategy that we can give due attention to through the consultation, to strengthen it and to build on what we have before us, by including the experiences of those people who genuinely know what needs to be done, namely the families of those who have dementia. I know that the majority of us here in the Chamber have heard plenty of heartbreaking stories of people who feel that they failed to access the care that they feel should be a fundamental right for someone with dementia: the woman who had to stay on a ward in a hospital for months with a relatively simple infection because there was a failure to put an appropriate package of care in place in her community; the carers who can't arrange care for even a short period of time to have a break; those who feel that the kind of day care that's vital for them isn't available. It's the voices of those people, the families and those who have dementia themselves, that I want to hear coming through in the final strategy, following this consultation. I'm sure that the Cabinet Secretary would agree with that. I only had five questions. Two have already been asked by Angela Burns, so I'll ask them as rhetorical questions, even though we know what the Cabinet Secretary has in mind in that regard. It's important to have a balance between being ambitious and being realistic, but I will ask whether this 3 per cent increase in diagnosis on an annual basis is something that the Cabinet Secretary genuinely feels couldn't be improved upon, because that will only take us, in five years, to the situation where Northern Ireland is at present. The other rhetorical question is how to measure success, ultimately, because it's the action that's important here, the effect that this strategy will have on people the length and breadth of Wales. Is the Cabinet Secretary clear in his mind that he will be able to look back and say, 'Yes, this has worked' or 'This hasn't worked'? Three questions to which we may receive specific answers: is there an intention to develop further the preventative side, to invest genuinely in opportunities, for example, to exercise to delay or reduce dementia symptoms, and not just to draw attention and raise awareness of the kind that the Cabinet Secretary mentioned a few minutes ago? In terms of diagnosis in the Welsh language, as the Alzheimer's Society has said, I very much welcome the plan and the intention to improve things somehow, but when will we have, from the Government as well as from others, as part of the consultation, more detail on what is being considered here? Finally, the rural aspect of dementia care. Does the Cabinet Secretary expect that this final strategy on dementia will give us a fuller picture and clearer picture of the specific issues that stem from the needs of dementia care in rural Wales? As I say, I welcome the fact that we do now have this draft strategy to work from; the challenge now is that we would have a final strategy that is going to be able to achieve these very warm words on which we can all agree to make Wales a genuinely dementia-friendly nation.
Welsh: Rwy'n falch bod strategaeth gennym ni rŵan y gallwn ni roi sylw iddi hi drwy'r ymgynghoriad a'i chryfhau hi ac adeiladu ar yr hyn sydd gennym ni drwy brofiadau y bobl hynny sydd wirioneddol yn gwybod beth sydd angen ei wneud, sef teuluoedd y rheini sydd â dementia. Ac rwy'n gwybod bod y rhan fwyaf ohonom ni yma yn y Siambr wedi clywed digonedd o straeon torcalonnus am bobl sy'n teimlo eu bod nhw'n methu â chael y gofal maen nhw'n teimlo a ddylai fod yn rhywbeth cwbl sylfaenol, sy'n haeddiannol i rywun sydd â dementia: y ddynes y bu gorfod iddi aros ar ward ysbyty am fisoedd, efo haint digon syml, oherwydd bod yna fethiant i roi pecyn gofal addas ar ei chyfer hi yn ei chymuned; y gofalwyr sy'n methu â threfnu gofal dros dro am ychydig o amser er mwyn cael rhywfaint o orffwys; y rheini sy'n teimlo nad ydy'r math o ofal dydd angenrheidiol ar gael iddyn nhw. A lleisiau'r bobl yma, y teuluoedd a'r rhai sydd â dementia eu hunain, yr wyf am eu clywed yn dod drwodd yn y strategaeth derfynol yn dilyn yr ymgynghoriad yma, ac rwy'n siŵr bod yr Ysgrifennydd Cabinet yn cytuno â hynny. Rhyw bum cwestiwn oedd gennyf i. Mae dau ohonyn nhw wedi cael eu gofyn eisoes gan Angela Burns, felly mi wnaf i eu gofyn nhw fel cwestiynau rhethregol beth bynnag, er ein bod ni'n gwybod beth sydd ym meddwl yr Ysgrifennydd Cabinet. Mae'n bwysig, onid ydy, cael cydbwysedd rhwng bod yn uchelgeisiol a bod yn realistig, ond mi wnaf innau ofyn: a ydy'r 3 y cant yma o gynnydd mewn diagnosau yn flynyddol yn rhywbeth y mae'r Ysgrifennydd Cabinet yn wirioneddol yn teimlo na ellir gwella arno fo gan na fydd hynny ond yn mynd â ni ymhen rhyw bum mlynedd i'r sefyllfa lle mae Gogledd Iwerddon rŵan? Y cwestiwn rhethregol arall ydy: sut mae mesur y llwyddiant hwn yn y pen draw? Oherwydd, y gweithredu sy'n bwysig yn hyn a'r effaith y bydd strategaeth yma yn ei chael ar bobl ar hyd a lled Cymru. A ydy'r Ysgrifennydd Cabinet yn glir yn ei feddwl y bydd o'n gallu edrych yn ôl a dweud, 'Ydy, mae hyn wedi gweithio', neu 'Dydy hyn ddim'? Tri chwestiwn, o bosibl, y gallem ni gael atebion penodol iddyn nhw: a oes yna fwriad i ddatblygu ymhellach yr ochr ataliol, er enghraifft, i fuddsoddi go iawn mewn cyfleon ar gyfer, er enghraifft, ymarfer corff, er mwyn oedi neu leihau symptomau dementia, ac nid dim ond tynnu sylw a chodi ymwybyddiaeth o'r math y gwnaeth yr Ysgrifennydd Cabinet ei grybwyll ychydig o funudau yn ôl? Ar ddiagnosis yn y Gymraeg, fel y Gymdeithas Alzheimer's, rydw i'n croesawu'n fawr y cynllun a'r bwriad i wella pethau rhywsut, ond tybed pa bryd y cawn ni, gan y Llywodraeth yn ogystal â gan eraill, fel rhan o'r ymgynghoriad yma, fwy o fanylion am yr hyn sydd dan sylw? Felly, hefyd, yn olaf, yr elfennau gwledig o ofal dementia. A ydy'r Ysgrifennydd Cabinet yn disgwyl y bydd y strategaeth derfynol yma ar ddementia yn rhoi darlun llawnach a chliriach i ni o'r materion penodol sy'n deillio o anghenion gofal dementia yng Nghymru wledig? Fel rydw i'n dweud, rwy'n croesawu'r ffaith bod gennym ni rŵan y strategaeth ddrafft yma i weithio ohoni hi; yr her, wrth gwrs, ydy ein bod ni yn cael strategaeth yn y pen draw sydd yn mynd i allu gwireddu'r geiriau cynnes iawn yr ydym ni i gyd yn gallu cytuno arnyn nhw ar wneud Cymru yn gyfeillgar i ddementia yn wirioneddol.