English: If you'd said that Wales would have the third best recycling rates in the whole of the world within just 20 years, if we'd said that we would have changed the law fundamentally in relation to organ donation so that we had the best organ donation rates in the whole of the United Kingdom, if you'd told people that we would have passed the well-being of future generations Act and that we had committed ourselves to 1 million Welsh speakers within the lifetime of many people in this Chamber, I don't think those who were here in 1999, told that all of those things could be made to happen within just 20 years, I don't think that they would have complained about a lack of ambition here in Wales. And lastly, in terms of the things that I think would have been a source of amazement to people back then, if you had said to people that within 20 years devolution would have developed to the extent that we have a Cabinet portfolio dedicated to international relations as part of the Welsh Government, I think that would have been a very hard thing for people back at the very start of devolution to have imagined. For all those reasons, I think the last 20 years has so many things in it to be proud of what has been achieved here across the National Assembly. But as well as pleasant surprises, I think, from that perspective of 1999, there have been some disappointments and some shocks as well. I think we would have been disappointed, Llywydd, as you said in your contribution, that, nearly 20 years on from the Richard commission - the Richard commission that told us in that first Assembly term that the Assembly needed 80 Members to discharge the responsibilities that it has - I think people would have been disappointed to think that, 20 years on, we are still only 60 Members, dealing now with a hugely different degree of responsibility than the National Assembly of 1999. I think, Llywydd, and this is maybe just my view, that we would have been disappointed in 1999 at just how far we have departed from those earlier promises that devolution would mean a new way of conducting politics here in Wales, that traditional barriers and boundaries would matter less and that working across those divides would be easier. Llywydd, it seems to me that we have moved quite a long way from that ideal over these 20 years. Indeed, I think it is hard to imagine the history of the mental health Measure of the third Assembly being replicated easily today. A mental health Measure passed with a Labour health Minister in a coalition Government involving Plaid Cymru, working with a Conservative Chair of the health committee to introduce a whole new primary care mental health service, to provide new rights to patients in mental hospitals, to take an early step on the co-production of care and treatment plans, and to do so in a way that was rooted in a strong consensus of purpose across the Assembly Chamber. Now, politics outside this Chamber has become more divisive and combative, and it may not be a great matter of surprise that that has had its impact here, but it's not the ambition with which this institution began its existence. I think we would be disappointed, in 1999, to have looked forward to the way in which some of those early hopes have curdled, and I think that we'd be right to be disappointed as well. My third point is one, Llywydd, that you covered so well in your contribution, because back in that glad if not entirely confident morning of 1999, we underestimated, I think, the challenges that come from being such a new institution, where everything happens to us for the first time, where we are always making our own history. There is huge hope in handing people control over their own destinies, but it turns out that there is inevitable hurt in that process as well.
Welsh: Pe byddech wedi dweud y byddai gan Gymru y gyfradd ailgylchu orau ond dau ledled y byd i gyd, a hynny o fewn 20 mlynedd, pe byddem wedi dweud y byddem wedi newid y gyfraith yn sylfaenol mewn cysylltiad â rhoi organau i fod â'r cyfraddau rhoi organau gorau yn y Deyrnas Unedig, pe byddech wedi dweud wrth bobl y byddem wedi pasio'r Ddeddf llesiant cenedlaethau'r dyfodol a'n bod wedi ymrwymo i 1 miliwn o siaradwyr Cymraeg o fewn oes llawer o bobl yn y Siambr hon, nid wyf i'n credu y byddai'r rhai oedd yma ym 1999, o glywed y gellid gwneud yr holl bethau hynny, a hynny o fewn 20 mlynedd, nid wyf i'n credu y bydden nhw wedi cwyno am ddiffyg uchelgais yma yng Nghymru. Ac yn olaf, o ran y pethau a fyddai, yn fy marn i, wedi bod yn destun syndod i bobl bryd hynny, pe byddech wedi dweud wrth bobl y byddai datganoli, o fewn 20 mlynedd, wedi datblygu i'r fath raddau fel bod gennym bortffolio Cabinet sy'n ymroddedig i gysylltiadau rhyngwladol yn rhan o Lywodraeth Cymru, rwy'n credu y byddai hynny wedi bod yn rhywbeth anodd iawn i bobl yn ôl ar ddechrau'r datganoli fod wedi ei ddychmygu. Am yr holl resymau hynny, rwy'n credu bod cymaint o bethau yn yr 20 mlynedd diwethaf i ymfalchïo ynddyn nhw a'r hyn sydd wedi'i gyflawni yma ar draws y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol. Ond yn ogystal â phethau sy'n destun syndod dymunol, yn fy marn i, o'r safbwynt hwnnw ym 1999, bu rhai siomedigaethau a rhai ergydion hefyd. Rwy'n credu y byddem wedi ein siomi, Llywydd, fel y gwnaethoch chithau ddweud yn eich cyfraniad chi, bron 20 mlynedd ar ôl Comisiwn Richard - Comisiwn Richard a ddywedodd wrthym yn y tymor Cynulliad cyntaf hwnnw fod angen 80 o Aelodau ar y Cynulliad i gyflawni'r cyfrifoldebau sydd ganddo - rwy'n credu y byddai pobl wedi eu siomi i feddwl, ymhen 20 mlynedd, mai dim ond 60 o Aelodau sydd yma o hyd, sy'n ymdrin erbyn hyn â lefel wahanol iawn o gyfrifoldeb i Gynulliad Cenedlaethol 1999. Rwy'n credu, Llywydd, ac efallai mai dim ond fy marn i yw hyn, y byddem wedi ein siomi ym 1999 o weld pa mor bell yr ydym wedi gwyro oddi wrth yr addewidion cynharach hynny y byddai datganoli yn ffordd newydd o gyflawni gwleidyddiaeth yma yng Nghymru, bod llai o bwys i rwystrau a ffiniau traddodiadol ac y byddai'n haws gweithio ar draws y rhaniadau hynny. Llywydd, mae'n ymddangos i mi ein bod ni wedi symud cryn bellter o'r ddelfryd honno dros yr 20 mlynedd hyn. Yn wir, rwy'n credu ei bod yn anodd dychmygu hynt Mesur iechyd meddwl y trydydd Cynulliad yn cael ei efelychu'n hawdd heddiw. Mesur iechyd meddwl a basiwyd gyda Gweinidog Iechyd Llafur mewn Llywodraeth glymblaid â Phlaid Cymru, yn gweithio gyda Chadeirydd y Pwyllgor Iechyd o'r Ceidwadwyr i gyflwyno gwasanaeth iechyd meddwl gofal sylfaenol newydd sbon, i roi hawliau newydd i gleifion mewn ysbytai meddwl, cymryd cam cynnar o ran cyd-lunio cynlluniau gofal a thriniaeth, a gwneud hynny mewn ffordd a oedd wedi'i gwreiddio mewn consensws cryf o ran ei ddiben ar draws Siambr y Cynulliad. Nawr, mae gwleidyddiaeth y tu allan i'r Siambr hon wedi mynd yn fwy rhwygol ac ymosodol, ac efallai na fydd yn peri syndod mawr fod hynny wedi effeithio ar y lle hwn, ond nid hwn yw'r uchelgais y sylfaenwyd y sefydliad hwn arno. Rwy'n credu y byddem wedi ein siomi, ym 1999, o fod wedi edrych ymlaen at y ffordd y mae rhai o'r gobeithion cynnar hynny wedi fferru, ac rwy'n credu y byddem yn iawn i gael ein siomi hefyd. Mae fy nhrydydd pwynt, Llywydd, yn un y gwnaethoch chithau ymdrin ag ef yn dda iawn yn eich cyfraniad chi, oherwydd yn ôl ar y bore balch, os nad cwbl hyderus hwnnw, ym 1999, fe wnaethom ni danbrisio, rwy'n credu, yr heriau a ddaw o fod yn sefydliad mor newydd, lle mae popeth yn digwydd inni am y tro cyntaf, lle'r ydym bob amser yn creu ein hanes ein hunain. Mae gobaith enfawr wrth drosglwyddo rheolaeth i bobl dros eu tynged eu hunain, ond mae'r broses honno'n arwain yn anochel at frifo hefyd.