English: Diolch, Ddirprwy Lywydd. I think there's some common ground with the motion that Plaid Cymru have put down. There is no doubt that the face of retail has changed dramatically over the last 20 years and we don't want town centres just to be a place of shops. We want them to be more than that; we want them to be hubs of the community. On that, I think we can all agree. What I found depressing from Sian Gwenllian's speech was the focus on car parking as the main answer to that. I find that depressing for two reasons: one is double standards, but also the fact that it's a false premise. First, on the double standards, in Carmarthenshire, Plaid Cymru campaigned heavily for free car parking ahead of taking control of the local authority. We heard about it ad nauseam, week after week, and as soon as they took over control of the council, not only did they not deliver free car parking as they promised they would, but they made the situation worse. They're now expanding the out-of-town Parc Trostre retail park, at a time when they're claiming to show sympathy for the town centre. They've set up a taskforce that doesn't meet and the local business improvement district claims not to be supported by the council. And so, the words we had about delivering free car parking, which you've heard repeated again this afternoon - when they get the chance to put them into practice, they did not deliver on them. The other point that I think is hypocritical: yesterday, we sat through Leanne Wood chastising the Government for not emphasising enough its target for tackling climate change, lamenting the fact that we didn't talk enough about the 2020 target and emphasising the importance and the urgency of tackling climate change. Today, a day after, we have a stress on a policy that would make climate change worse; it would increase car dependency. So, there's a profound contradiction in support here, on the one hand saying we need to think differently and do differently, and, a day after, saying we should put all our eggs in the basket of increasing car traffic, despite the fact that, given the chance - [Interruption.] No, let me proceed. Despite the fact that, when given the chance to put this policy into practice, they've done nothing. On the second - [Interruption.] Let me just make some progress. The second reason I find this depressing is that this rests on a false premise - there is no such thing as free car parking. The money has to come from somewhere, and it currently comes from other services - from social services and from education. The cost of providing a so-called free car parking space, according to the Department for Transport, is between £300 and £500 a year for one space. It's not free; it's paid for. In Carmarthenshire - I looked at their budget for 2016-17, and that shows a revenue expenditure allocation of £1.9 million for car parks, alongside an income of almost £3.2 million a year for car parks. In one year. So, forgoing that income and meeting the cost of car parking would, potentially, amount to some £5 million in Carmarthenshire alone. And it'll create more demand. We can only look at hospital car parking, since we've introduced free car parking there. The car parks are rammed, and in almost every car park we have demand for extra car parking space, at a cost of between £300 and £500 a year. So, not only are you not sticking to your words on tackling climate change, not only are you not doing what you said you'd do in Carmarthenshire, but you're taking money away from vital services to subsidise car owners, and also creating more demand for that. Bear in mind that a quarter of all households don't have a car. Now, the evidence on car parking regenerating town centres is, at best, weak. It's based on shopkeepers thinking that most of their customers come by car, which is not true. The most recent survey in Bristol town centre showed that just a fifth of shoppers travelled by car. Retailers tend to overestimate the importance of car-borne trade by almost 100 per cent. Shoppers, when they're asked, would much rather see a better pedestrian environment, wider pavements and pedestrianisation rather than free car parking. In fact, Living Streets, in their report 'The pedestrian pound', showed that making places better for walking could boost trade by 40 per cent -
Welsh: Diolch, Ddirprwy Lywydd. Rwy'n credu bod yna rywfaint o dir cyffredin gyda'r cynnig a gyflwynodd Plaid Cymru. Nid oes amheuaeth fod wyneb manwerthu wedi newid yn ddramatig dros yr 20 mlynedd diwethaf, ac nid ydym am i ganol trefi fod yn llefydd i siopau'n unig. Rydym am iddynt fod yn fwy na hynny; rydym am iddynt fod yn ganolfannau i'r gymuned. Ar hynny, rwy'n meddwl y gallwn i gyd gytuno. Yr hyn a oedd yn ddigalon yn araith Sian Gwenllian oedd y ffocws ar barcio ceir fel y prif ateb i hynny. Rwy'n gweld hynny'n ddigalon am ddau reswm: un yw safonau dwbl, ond hefyd y ffaith ei fod yn gynsail ffug. Yn gyntaf, ar y safonau dwbl: yn Sir Gaerfyrddin, ymgyrchodd Plaid Cymru yn gadarn dros barcio ceir am ddim cyn cymryd rheolaeth ar yr awdurdod lleol. Clywsom am y peth hyd at syrffed, wythnos ar ôl wythnos, a chyn gynted ag y cawsant reolaeth ar y cyngor, nid yn unig eu bod heb gyflwyno parcio am ddim yn ôl eu haddewid, ond fe wnaethant y sefyllfa'n waeth. Maent yn awr yn ehangu Parc Trostre, parc manwerthu ar gyrion y dref, ar yr un pryd â honni eu bod yn dangos cydymdeimlad at ganol y dref. Maent wedi sefydlu tasglu nad yw'n cyfarfod ac mae'r ardal gwella busnes lleol yn honni nad yw'n cael cefnogaeth gan y cyngor. Ac felly, y geiriau a gawsom am gyflwyno parcio am ddim, ac y clywsoch hwy'n cael eu hailadrodd eto y prynhawn yma - pan gânt y cyfle i'w rhoi ar waith yn ymarferol, nid ydynt yn eu cyflawni. Y pwynt arall sy'n rhagrithiol yn fy marn i yw hwn: ddoe, fe eisteddom drwy Leanne Wood yn ceryddu'r Llywodraeth am beidio â phwysleisio ei tharged ar gyfer mynd i'r afael â newid hinsawdd yn ddigon cadarn, yn gresynu at y ffaith nad oeddem yn siarad digon am y targed 2020 ac yn pwysleisio pwysigrwydd mynd i'r afael â newid hinsawdd a hynny ar frys. Heddiw, y diwrnod wedyn, dyma bwyslais ar bolisi a fyddai'n gwneud newid hinsawdd yn waeth; byddai'n cynyddu'r ddibyniaeth ar geir. Felly, mae yna wrthddweud mawr yn sail i hyn, ar y naill law yn dweud bod angen i ni feddwl yn wahanol a gwneud yn wahanol, a'r diwrnod wedyn, yn dweud y dylem roi ein holl wyau yn y fasged o gynyddu traffig ceir, er gwaethaf y ffaith eu bod, o gael y cyfle - [Torri ar draws.] Na, gadewch i mi barhau. Er gwaethaf y ffaith, pan gawsant y cyfle i roi'r polisi hwn ar waith, eu bod heb wneud dim. Ar yr ail - [Torri ar draws.] Gadewch i mi symud ymlaen rhywfaint. Yr ail reswm rwy'n ystyried bod hwn yn ddigalon yw ei fod hyn yn seiliedig ar gynsail ffug - nid oes y fath beth â pharcio am ddim. Mae'n rhaid i'r arian ddod o rywle, ac ar hyn o bryd daw o wasanaethau eraill - o'r gwasanaethau cymdeithasol ac addysg. Mae'r gost o ddarparu yr hyn a elwir yn lle parcio rhad ac am ddim, yn ôl yr Adran Drafnidiaeth, rhwng £300 a £500 y flwyddyn ar gyfer un lle. Nid yw'n rhad ac am ddim; telir amdano. Yn Sir Gaerfyrddin - edrychais ar eu cyllideb ar gyfer 2016-17, ac mae honno'n dangos dyraniad gwariant refeniw o £1.9 miliwn ar gyfer meysydd parcio, ochr yn ochr ag incwm o bron i £3.2 miliwn y flwyddyn o feysydd parcio. Mewn un flwyddyn. Felly, byddai hepgor yr incwm hwnnw a thalu costau am feysydd parcio oddeutu £5 miliwn, o bosibl, yn Sir Gaerfyrddin yn unig. A bydd yn creu mwy o alw. Ni allwn ond edrych ar barcio ceir mewn ysbytai ers i ni gyflwyno parcio am ddim yno. Mae'r meysydd parcio yn llawn dop, ac ym mhob maes parcio bron, ceir galw am ragor o lefydd parcio ceir, ar gost o rhwng £300 a £500 y flwyddyn. Felly, nid yn unig nad ydych yn cadw at eich gair ar fynd i'r afael â newid hinsawdd, nid yn unig nad ydych yn gwneud yr hyn y dywedoch y byddech yn ei wneud yn Sir Gaerfyrddin, ond rydych hefyd yn mynd ag arian oddi wrth wasanaethau hanfodol fel cymhorthdal i berchnogion ceir, a hefyd yn creu mwy o alw am hynny. Cofiwch nad oes car gan chwarter yr holl aelwydydd. Nawr, mae'r dystiolaeth ar feysydd parcio i adfywio canol trefi, ar y gorau, yn wan. Mae'n seiliedig ar siopwyr yn meddwl bod y rhan fwyaf o'u cwsmeriaid yn dod yn y car, ac nid yw hynny'n wir. Dangosodd yr arolwg diweddaraf ynghanol Bryste mai un rhan o bump o siopwyr yn unig a deithiodd yno mewn car. Mae manwerthwyr yn tueddu i oramcangyfrif pwysigrwydd y fasnach sy'n cyrraedd yn y car bron 100 y cant. Pan ofynnir i siopwyr, byddai'n llawer gwell ganddynt weld amgylchedd gwell i gerddwyr, palmentydd lletach a chreu parthau i gerddwyr yn hytrach na pharcio ceir am ddim. Yn wir, dangosodd Living Streets, yn eu hadroddiad 'The pedestrian pound', y gallai creu lleoedd gwell ar gyfer cerdded hybu masnach 40 y cant -