English: Well, Llywydd, can I first of all agree with what Luke Fletcher said about the very disappointing announcement last week? I've long argued myself that we need something akin to the United States Community Reinvestment Act 1977, which would oblige banks, when they remove from communities that have supported them for decades and decades, that would oblige them to invest in those communities to make good the lack of services that their withdrawal inevitably leads to. My colleague Vaughan Gething wrote to the Monmouthshire Building Society - which, as you know, is now a lead partner in our plans for a community bank - on 16 November, and there is to be a meeting early in the new year, involving the Minister for Economy and the Minister for Social Justice, with Monmouthshire Building Society and the voluntary group that originally proposed a community bank for Wales, to set out a route-map to the launch of that community bank. And we'd like it to happen as quickly as possible. The reasons for it not being as quick as we would like are just the technical ones, the challenging ones of licensing in the financial services area, and that is part, as the Member knows, of why we are working in partnership with the Monmouthshire Building Society, because it already has a number of those permissions in what is a tightly regulated sector. As well as the community bank, Llywydd, of course, we work with credit unions to see where they can step in to provide services. We support post offices in the work they do, and we work with Link. So, it's a non-devolved service, but it is responsible for 243 locations for automatic cash-dispensing machines across Wales. And where banks pull out, there will be an obligation that Link will discharge, at least to make sure that people continue to have access to cash in those localities.
Welsh: Wel, Llywydd, a gaf i gyntaf oll gytuno â'r hyn y dywedodd Luke Fletcher am y cyhoeddiad siomedig iawn yr wythnos diwethaf? Rwyf i wedi dadlau fy hun ers tro bod angen rhywbeth tebyg i Ddeddf Ail-fuddsoddi Cymunedol 1977 yr Unol Daleithiau, a fyddai'n gorfodi banciau, pan fyddan nhw'n gadael cymunedau sydd wedi'u cefnogi ers degawdau a degawdau, a fyddai'n eu gorfodi nhw i fuddsoddi yn y cymunedau hynny i wneud iawn am y diffyg gwasanaethau y mae eu hymadawiad yn anochel yn arwain ato. Ysgrifennodd fy nghyd-Aelod, Vaughan Gething at y Monmouthshire Building Society - sydd, fel y gwyddoch chi, nawr yn brif bartner yn ein cynlluniau ar gyfer banc cymunedol - ar 16 Tachwedd, a bydd cyfarfod yn gynnar yn y flwyddyn newydd, yn cynnwys Gweinidog yr Economi a'r Gweinidog Cyfiawnder Cymdeithasol, gyda'r Monmouthshire Building Society a'r grŵp gwirfoddol a gynigiodd fanc cymunedol i Gymru yn wreiddiol, i osod llwybr i lansio'r banc cymunedol hwnnw. A hoffem ni iddo ddigwydd cyn gynted â phosibl. Nid yw'n digwydd mor gyflym ag yr hoffem ni oherwydd rhesymau technegol yn unig, y rhai heriol o drwyddedu yn y maes gwasanaethau ariannol, ac mae hynny'n rhan, fel y mae'r Aelod yn gwybod, o pam ein bod ni'n gweithio mewn partneriaeth â'r Monmouthshire Building Society, oherwydd bod eisoes ganddyn nhw nifer o'r caniatadau hynny mewn sector sy'n cael ei reoleiddio'n dynn. Yn ogystal â'r banc cymunedol, Llywydd, wrth gwrs, rydym ni'n gweithio gydag undebau credyd i weld ble gallan nhw gamu i mewn i ddarparu gwasanaethau. Rydym ni'n cefnogi swyddfeydd post yn y gwaith y maen nhw'n ei wneud, ac rydym ni'n gweithio gyda Link. Felly, mae'n wasanaeth heb ei ddatganoli, ond mae'n gyfrifol am 243 o leoliadau ar gyfer peiriannau dosbarthu arian parod yn awtomatig ledled Cymru. A lle mae banciau'n gadael, bydd rhwymedigaeth y bydd Link yn cyflawni, o leiaf i wneud yn siŵr bod pobl yn dal i allu cael gafael ar arian parod yn yr ardaloedd hynny.