English: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, for the opportunity to make a brief contribution in this debate, and it is difficult, I think, to do justice to such a wide-ranging report in this debate. There were a few issues I wanted to pick up on; the first was the very clear link made in the report for the continued need to see action on both 'Everybody's Business', the health committee's suicide prevention report, and the Children, Young People and Education Committee's 'Mind over matter' report. I wanted to place on record again my thanks to Dr Dai Lloyd for the strong partnership that has been established between the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee and my committee. It is absolutely crucial that we do not take our foot off the pedal for a second on delivering on both those reports. They are both landmark reports. They are both reports that had widespread consultation, not just with people with lived experience, but expert stakeholders, and I believe both reports have a huge amount of buy-in. So, I would urge every possible action to continue to prioritise both those reports. I wanted to focus on two specific recommendations, really, which are recommendation 6 and recommendation 7. These deal with the fact that the committee was really concerned that there was a disconnect between the assurances the committee was given about mental health services continuing during the pandemic and what we heard on the ground. We were being consistently told by Ministers and by the head of the NHS in Wales that mental health services were designated as essential services. But what we heard from stakeholders on the ground was that people had indeed had difficulty getting access to those mental health services that they need, so I entirely concur with the committee's findings that Welsh Government really needs to delve into this and to check that the methods being used to check that people are getting services are actually representative of people's lived experience on the ground. I pay tribute to organisations like Mind Cymru, who are doing lots of work in gathering lived experience, but I think it is also essential that Welsh Government listens to people with lived experience about what their experience has been in the pandemic. As we have said then in recommendation 7, we have called for mental health services to be prioritised. It has been a consistent aim of both committees for there to be parity between mental and physical health. Yet what we saw in the pandemic, which is somewhat understandable in a physical health emergency, was an immediate change to mental health services, because everything moved online, and online does not work for everyone. Phone calls do not work for everyone, and I think it's crucial moving forward that we ensure that our mental health services are resilient enough to deliver that parity in the kind of crisis that we are facing. I wanted to just say something about crisis care, because the Welsh Government's response refers to the urgent access review, which is a very interesting document, 'Beyond the call', and I'd encourage Members to take a look at it. It describes the 900-odd calls a day that are made to the police, accident and emergency, and other emergency services for people in need of mental health support. But what I would urge from the Government is urgent action on the other part of that jigsaw, because if people are calling the police and going to A&E in those kinds of numbers, then we have failed miserably in providing the services that we need for people earlier on. We cannot rely on -
Welsh: Diolch am y cyfle i wneud cyfraniad byr yn y ddadl hon, Ddirprwy Lywydd, ac rwy'n credu ei bod hi'n anodd gwneud cyfiawnder ag adroddiad mor eang yn y ddadl hon. Roeddwn am fynd ar drywydd rhai materion; yn gyntaf, y cyswllt clir iawn a wnaed yn yr adroddiad â'r angen parhaus i weld gweithredu ar 'Busnes Pawb', adroddiad atal hunanladdiad y pwyllgor iechyd, ac adroddiad 'Cadernid Meddwl' y Pwyllgor Plant, Pobl Ifanc ac Addysg. Roeddwn am gofnodi fy niolch eto i Dr Dai Lloyd am y bartneriaeth gref sydd wedi'i sefydlu rhwng y Pwyllgor Iechyd, Gofal Cymdeithasol a Chwaraeon a fy mhwyllgor i. Mae'n gwbl hanfodol nad ydym yn tynnu ein traed oddi ar y sbardun am eiliad ar gyflawni amcanion y ddau adroddiad. Mae'r ddau yn adroddiadau nodedig. Ymgynghorwyd yn eang ar y ddau, nid yn unig gyda phobl â phrofiad bywyd, ond â rhanddeiliaid arbenigol, a chredaf fod y ddau adroddiad wedi ennyn llawer iawn o gefnogaeth. Felly, byddwn yn annog pob cam posibl i barhau i flaenoriaethu'r ddau ohonynt. Roeddwn am ganolbwyntio ar ddau argymhelliad penodol, mewn gwirionedd, sef argymhelliad 6 ac argymhelliad 7. Mae'r rhain yn ymdrin â'r ffaith bod y pwyllgor yn pryderu'n fawr fod yna ddiffyg cysylltiad rhwng y sicrwydd a roddwyd i'r pwyllgor fod gwasanaethau iechyd meddwl yn parhau yn ystod y pandemig a'r hyn a glywsom ar lawr gwlad. Dywedodd Gweinidogion a phennaeth y GIG yng Nghymru wrthym yn gyson fod gwasanaethau iechyd meddwl wedi'u dynodi'n wasanaethau hanfodol. Ond yr hyn a glywsom gan randdeiliaid ar lawr gwlad oedd bod pobl wedi cael trafferth cael mynediad at y gwasanaethau iechyd meddwl sydd eu hangen arnynt, felly rwy'n cytuno'n llwyr â chanfyddiadau'r pwyllgor fod gwir angen i Lywodraeth Cymru ymchwilio i hyn a sicrhau bod y dulliau sy'n cael eu defnyddio i wneud yn siŵr bod pobl yn cael gwasanaethau yn cynrychioli profiad bywyd pobl ar lawr gwlad mewn gwirionedd. Rwy'n talu teyrnged i sefydliadau fel Mind Cymru, sy'n gwneud llawer o waith ar gasglu profiadau bywyd, ond rwy'n credu ei bod hefyd yn hanfodol fod Llywodraeth Cymru yn gwrando ar bobl sydd â phrofiad bywyd am eu profiad yn ystod y pandemig. Fel rydym wedi dweud wedyn yn argymhelliad 7, rydym wedi galw am flaenoriaethu gwasanaethau iechyd meddwl. Un o nodau cyson y ddau bwyllgor oedd sicrhau cydraddoldeb rhwng iechyd meddwl ac iechyd corfforol. Ac eto, yr hyn a welsom yn y pandemig, sy'n eithaf dealladwy mewn argyfwng iechyd corfforol, oedd newid i wasanaethau iechyd meddwl ar unwaith, oherwydd symudodd popeth ar-lein, ac nid yw ar-lein yn gweithio i bawb. Nid yw galwadau ffôn yn gweithio i bawb, ac rwy'n credu ei bod yn hanfodol wrth symud ymlaen ein bod yn sicrhau bod ein gwasanaethau iechyd meddwl yn ddigon gwydn i sicrhau'r cydraddoldeb hwnnw yn y math o argyfwng a wynebwn. Roeddwn eisiau dweud rhywbeth am ofal mewn argyfwng, oherwydd mae ymateb Llywodraeth Cymru yn cyfeirio at yr adolygiad o fynediad brys, sy'n ddogfen ddiddorol iawn, 'Tu hwnt i'r alwad', a byddwn yn annog yr Aelodau i edrych arni. Mae'n disgrifio'r oddeutu 900 o alwadau y dydd a wneir i'r heddlu, damweiniau ac achosion brys, a gwasanaethau brys eraill i bobl sydd angen cymorth iechyd meddwl. Ond yr hyn y byddwn yn ei annog gan y Llywodraeth yw gweithredu brys ar ran arall y jig-so hwnnw, oherwydd os yw pobl yn ffonio'r heddlu ac yn mynd i'r adrannau damweiniau ac achosion brys mewn niferoedd o'r fath, rydym wedi methu'n druenus gyda darparu'r gwasanaethau sydd eu hangen ar gyfer pobl yn gynharach. Ni allwn ddibynnu ar -