English: Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd, and I move the motion. Members, I suppose the easiest way to start this is to just say that it's Carers Week, and let's have a debate about carers. This awareness raising is very valuable, and it's useful to have a point, I think, at which to mark our appreciation. But I suspect that what most of the 370,000 unpaid carers would like us to do is show that appreciation by acting rather than just talking about it. Three hundred and seventy thousand people is over 11 per cent of the population. It's just about twice the number who work in our health services, including all the dentists and administrative staff, and scientists and doctors and nurses and health visitors, the paramedics, the technical staff, the midwives and the therapists. They provide over £8 billion-worth of unpaid care, and that's the equivalent of over half the Welsh Government's budget. I think that is one hell of a 'thank you' that this nation owes its unpaid carers. I hope that this debate will prove a profitable and open-minded exchange of ideas, speaking directly to those things that matter to carers themselves, and perhaps not getting too hung up on structural changes without a clearer explanation of cause and effect. But I am pleased to see that it has attracted a number of amendments that I'll come to in due course. But I'd like to start with the one that I think has really missed the mark on good faith carers, and that is the Government amendment - No. 1. It's not the substance of the amendment, which simply sets out the Government's stall, which is fine, but the fact that it deletes point 4 of the original motion - the very point that holds you, Minister, to account on the most valuable, indeed statutory, promises that you've made to carers so far. You could've come, Minister, to this Chamber and told us in good faith that of course you'd publish figures on how many carers' needs have been assessed and then met under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, and you could've told us, quite reasonably, that, with 370,000 carers in Wales, this number of people couldn't conceivably have been reached since 2014, but perhaps given us an indication of how local authorities were recruiting for the work, or maybe outsourcing the work - not just assessing and meeting the needs of carers, but identifying new carers for which you also have a statutory responsibility. You could've told us, maybe, that it was even difficult to find assessors, or even pay them, and I think, to a degree, we would've understood. But to refuse to be scrutinised is shameful. Have you really been put out so much by Carers Wales's 'track the Act' findings last September, which said that there was, and I quote, 'little evidence' of the first full year of the Act improving the lives of carers?
Welsh: Diolch yn fawr, Ddirprwy Lywydd, a chynigiaf y cynnig. Aelodau, mae'n debyg mai'r ffordd hawsaf o ddechrau hyn yw dweud ei bod yn Wythnos y Gofalwyr, a gadewch inni gael dadl am ofalwyr. Mae codi ymwybyddiaeth yn werthfawr iawn, ac mae'n ddefnyddiol cael pwynt, rwy'n credu, ar gyfer nodi ein gwerthfawrogiad. Ond rwy'n tybio mai'r hyn y byddai'r rhan fwyaf o'r 370,000 o ofalwyr di-dâl yn hoffi ein gweld yn ei wneud yw dangos y gwerthfawrogiad hwnnw drwy weithredu yn hytrach na siarad amdano'n unig. Mae 370,000 o bobl yn fwy na 11 y cant o'r boblogaeth. Mae oddeutu dwy waith y nifer sy'n gweithio yn ein gwasanaethau iechyd, gan gynnwys y deintyddion a'r staff gweinyddol, y gwyddonwyr a'r meddygon a nyrsys ac ymwelwyr iechyd, y parafeddygon, y staff technegol, y bydwragedd a'r therapyddion. Maent yn darparu gwerth dros £8 biliwn o ofal di-dâl, ac mae hynny'n cyfateb i dros hanner cyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru. Credaf fod hynny'n goblyn o 'ddiolch' sy'n ddyledus gan y genedl hon i'w gofalwyr di-dâl. Rwy'n gobeithio y bydd y ddadl hon yn fodd proffidiol ac agored o gyfnewid syniadau, a siarad yn uniongyrchol am y pethau hynny sydd o bwys i ofalwyr eu hunain, ac efallai na ddylem roi gormod o bwys ar newidiadau strwythurol heb esboniad cliriach o achos ac effaith. Ond rwy'n falch o weld ei bod wedi denu nifer o welliannau y dof atynt maes o law. Ond hoffwn ddechrau gyda'r un y credaf ei fod wedi methu'r pwynt yn llwyr ynghylch gofalwyr ewyllys da, sef gwelliant y Llywodraeth - Rhif 1. Nid sylwedd y gwelliant, sy'n gosod stondin y Llywodraeth, ac mae hynny'n iawn, ond y ffaith ei fod yn dileu pwynt 4 y cynnig gwreiddiol - yr union bwynt sy'n eich dwyn chi, Weinidog, i gyfrif am yr addewidion mwyaf gwerthfawr, a statudol yn wir, a wnaethoch i ofalwyr hyd yma. Gallech fod wedi dod i'r Siambr hon, Weinidog, a dweud wrthym yn ddidwyll y byddech, wrth gwrs, yn cyhoeddi ffigurau ynglŷn â faint o anghenion gofalwyr sydd wedi'u hasesu a'u diwallu o dan Ddeddf Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a Llesiant (Cymru) 2014, a gallech fod wedi dweud wrthym, yn eithaf rhesymol, gyda 370,000 o ofalwyr yng Nghymru, na allai'r nifer hon o bobl fod wedi'u cyrraedd ers 2014, ond gan roi syniad efallai ynglŷn â sut yr oedd awdurdodau lleol yn recriwtio ar gyfer y gwaith, neu efallai'n gosod y gwaith ar gontract allanol - nid asesu a diwallu anghenion gofalwyr yn unig, ond nodi gofalwyr newydd y mae gennych gyfrifoldeb statudol amdanynt. Gallech fod wedi dweud wrthym, efallai, ei bod hi'n anodd dod o hyd i aseswyr hyd yn oed, neu eu talu, ac rwy'n credu, i raddau, y byddem wedi deall. Ond mae gwrthod cael eich craffu yn gywilyddus. A ydych chi o ddifrif wedi cael eich rhoi ar y droed ôl i'r fath raddau gan ganfyddiadau 'Dilyn y Ddeddf' Gofalwyr Cymru fis Medi diwethaf, a ddywedodd na chafwyd fawr o dystiolaeth fod blwyddyn lawn gyntaf y Ddeddf yn gwella bywydau gofalwyr?