English: Thank you very much, Llywydd. I'm losing my voice, I think. I can't overemphasise the significance of this statement. Announcing the budget is one of the highlights of the year in parliamentary terms every year, but the significance is even greater this year, as the Welsh Government has to budget in a difficult economic situation. I agree with the Minister about the economic mess that has been such a characteristic of the UK Conservative Government. It's left us poorer, hasn't it, in so many ways, with the poorest shouldering the greatest burden, and it's left public coffers far emptier than they should be. But despite that clear responsibility on Whitehall, the Welsh Government can't hide behind that entirely, either. This is the situation that we are facing; the cards have been dealt in this way, and it's the work of a Government that doesn't have its own sovereign Treasury, unfortunately, to prioritise within the spending envelope that it has. When that envelope has been set out so tightly, the work of setting the budget gets harder, and I acknowledge that, because, but that is the challenge. I could spend some time painting another scenario where an independent Wales would have its own fiscal abilities, but that's for another day. What we do have to depend on now is innovation, fresh thinking, doing things differently. When we do face a strike from nurses, a strike by ambulance workers, both having reached their limit - not just now, but after years of a lack of financial support and otherwise - we do need to push the boundaries in terms of what's possible. We have to look at that bill of £133 million for agency nurses and think how can we bring that down, so that the budget today only has to find a few tens of millions to make a better wage offer to nurses, yes, to avoid a strike, something that we all and every nurse wants to avoid, but more than that, to show the appreciation that needs to be shown to nurses and that invests in the morale of the workforce. That lack of morale, the numbers leaving nursing far too early, is a major part of what makes the NHS unsustainable, and it will be unsustainable if we continue to see the levels of sickness and sickness inequalities that we see in Wales year after year, decade after decade. Yes, the context of this budget is very, very difficult, but it hasn't always been so. The Minister paints a picture that specifically this year is an unprecedented budget, a crisis budget, where safeguarding front-line services is the priority. Of course, there is an inevitable element of that, but time and time again, the Labour Welsh Government has failed to change direction, has failed to innovate, specifically on something that means a great deal to me - it's failed to invest in the transformation of services, genuine investment - genuine investment - in the preventative agenda, keeping us well, tackling inequalities genuinely. Without doing that, we will be in this situation again. We'll be facing this situation time and time again. And when the financial situation is tight, as it currently is, that cost of failing to transform the health of the nation is going to become an increasing burden, as it currently is. Of course hospitals are full, of course there are long queues of ambulances outside those hospitals. Of course social services are struggling. Perhaps one day we will have a budget that does try to cut that vicious cycle, rather than having to deal with the acute cases. This isn't that budget, I'm afraid. Yes, there is an economic mess, and yes, that mess, made by the Conservatives, is the basis for this difficult context, and the wider global context too, but that's why innovation by the Welsh Government is more important than ever before.
Welsh: Diolch yn fawr iawn, Llywydd. Dwi'n colli fy llais, dwi'n meddwl. Allwn ni ddim gorbwysleisio arwyddocâd y datganiad yma. Mae cyhoeddi'r gyllideb yn un o uchafbwyntiau'r flwyddyn yn seneddol bob amser, wrth reswm, ond mae'r arwyddocâd yn fwy fyth eleni, wrth i Lywodraeth Cymru orfod cyllido yng nghyd-destun sefyllfa economaidd enbyd o anodd. Dwi'n cyd-fynd efo'r Gweinidog cyllid yn ei beirniadaeth hi o'r llanast economaidd sydd wedi bod yn gymaint o nodwedd o Lywodraeth Geidwadol y DU. Mae wedi ein gadael ni'n dlotach, onid ydy hi, mewn cymaint o ffyrdd, efo'r tlotaf yn cario'r mwyaf o'r baich, ac mae wedi gadael coffrau cyhoeddus yn llawer gwacach nag y dylen nhw fod. Ond er y cyfrifoldeb amlwg hwnnw ar Whitehall, all Llywodraeth Cymru ddim cuddio y tu ôl i hynny yn llwyr, chwaith. Dyma'r sefyllfa yr ydym ni ynddi hi, y cardiau wedi cael eu delio i ni fel hyn, a gwaith Llywodraeth sydd heb ei Thrysorlys sofran ei hun, yn anffodus, ydy blaenoriaethu o fewn y ffiniau gwariant sydd ganddi hi. Pan fo'r ffiniau hynny wedi cael eu gosod mor afresymol o dynn, mae'r gwaith o gyllido yn mynd yn anoddach. Dwi'n cydnabod hynny, wrth gwrs, ond dyna ydy'r her. Mi allwn i dreulio amser yn peintio senario arall lle byddai gan Gymru annibynnol ei gallu cyllidol a ffisgal ei hun, ond at ddiwrnod arall mae hynny. Beth ydyn ni'n gorfod dibynnu arno fo rŵan ydy arloesi, meddwl ffres, gwneud pethau'n wahanol. Pan ydyn ni'n wynebu streic gan nyrsys, streic gan weithwyr ambiwlans, ill dau wedi cyrraedd pen eu tennyn - nid rŵan, ond ar ôl blynyddoedd o ddiffyg cefnogaeth ariannol a fel arall - mae'n rhaid gwthio ffiniau beth sydd yn bosib. Mae'n rhaid edrych ar y bil yna o £133 miliwn am nyrsys asiantaeth, a meddwl sut mae tynnu hwnnw i lawr fel bod y gyllideb yma heddiw ond yn gorfod dod o hyd i ychydig ddegau o filiynau i wneud cynnig cyflog gwell i nyrsys er mwyn, ie, osgoi streic, rhywbeth yr ydym ni i gyd a bob nyrs eisiau ei osgoi, ond yn fwy na hynny, dangos y gwerthfawrogiad sydd ei angen ei ddangos i nyrsys ac sy'n buddsoddi ym morâl y gweithlu. Mae'r diffyg morâl yna, y niferoedd sy'n gadael nyrsio yn llawer, llawer rhy gynnar, yn rhan fawr iawn o beth sy'n gwneud yr NHS yn anghynaliadwy, ac anghynaladwy fydd o hefyd os ydyn ni'n parhau i weld y lefelau o afiechyd ac anghydraddoldebau iechyd rydyn ni'n eu profi yng Nghymru flwyddyn ar ôl blwyddyn, degawd ar ôl degawd. Ydy, mae cyd-destun y gyllideb yma yn hynod, hynod o anodd, ond dydy hi ddim wastad wedi bod felly. Mae'r Gweinidog yn peintio darlun o hon yn benodol eleni fel cyllideb ddigynsail, cyllideb argyfwng, bron, lle gwarchod gwasanaethau rheng flaen ydy'r flaenoriaeth. Wrth gwrs bod yna elfen anochel i hynny, ond dro ar ôl tro, mae Llywodraeth Lafur Cymru wedi methu â newid cyfeiriad, wedi methu ag arloesi, yn benodol - rhywbeth sy'n golygu llawer iawn i mi - methu â buddsoddi mewn trawsnewid gwasanaethau, buddsoddiad go-iawn - go iawn rŵan - yn yr agenda ataliol, yn cadw ni'n iach, taclo anghydraddoldebau o ddifrif. A heb wneud hynny, yn ôl yn fan hyn fyddwn ni, yn ôl yn y sefyllfa yma dro ar ôl tro, a phan fo'r sefyllfa ariannol yn dynn, fel ag y mae hi rŵan, mae'r gost yna o fethu â thrawsnewid iechyd y wlad yn mynd yn fwy a mwy o fwrn, fel mae hi rŵan. Wrth gwrs bod ysbytai'n llawn, wrth gwrs bod rhesi o ambiwlansys yn aros y tu allan i'r ysbytai hynny. Wrth gwrs bod gwasanaethau cymdeithasol yn gwegian. Efallai rhyw ddiwrnod y cawn ni gyllideb sydd yn trio torri'r cylch dieflig yna yn hytrach na gorfod delio efo'r aciwt. Nid hon ydy'r gyllideb honno, dwi'n ofni. Oes, mae yna lanast economaidd, ac ydy, mae'r llanast hwnnw gan y Ceidwadwyr yn sail i'r cyd-destun anodd a'r sefyllfa fyd-eang ehangach. Ond dyna pam bod arloesi gan Lywodraeth Cymru yn bwysicach nag erioed.