English: There are two other issues. I asked the Minister last week if she would be willing to join my call for the COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice in Wales to be given core participant status in the UK inquiry. I and that campaign and many of us wanted a Wales-specific inquiry; that was blocked by Welsh Government. I'm astounded by the response we heard a few minutes ago from the Minister, actually, who said that they don't want to intervene somehow in the UK inquiry. I'm asking the Minister again today: just join our calls for COVID-bereaved family campaigners to be given core participant status. Yes, we hope that the Welsh public as a whole, and the Welsh Government, and us as opposition parties, and the health and care services in Wales, will be listened to by the UK inquiry. But this is a campaign group that has its own legal counsel, that has gone through the diligent work of gathering the kind of evidence that we need to make sure gets heard by the UK inquiry. So, I'm asking Welsh Government again: will you join our call? I've written to the UK inquiry asking for that to be the case, please would the Minister also back that call? Not as the exclusive interaction between Wales and that inquiry, but as a very, very important element of it. And finally, we are coming up to two years, or we're at the two-year point, since the pandemic began. There are health and care workers in particular who contracted the virus in the early days, perhaps being exposed to a particularly heavy viral load, because they were on the front line in the NHS and in the care service. They are now facing the prospect of having their pay halved - those who are still suffering the devastating effects of long COVID to this very day. As far as I know, COVID special leave is still in place in Scotland to protect NHS workers who are in this position. It is not good enough to cast those NHS workers who put themselves in harm's way aside at this point. They need assurance that they will not see their pay cut, and I'm asking Welsh Government to look at this issue as a matter of real urgency, to give hard-working, caring staff within the NHS the support that they need after they cared for others in those first dark days of COVID two years ago.
Welsh: Mae dau fater arall. Gofynnais i'r Gweinidog yr wythnos diwethaf a fyddai'n fodlon ymuno â fy ngalwad i ar gyfer rhoi statws cyfranogwr craidd i Deuluoedd mewn Profedigaeth COVID-19 dros Gyfiawnder-Cymru yn ymchwiliad y DU. Roeddwn i a'r ymgyrch honno a llawer ohonom ni eisiau cael ymchwiliad sy'n benodol i Gymru; cafodd hynny ei rwystro gan Lywodraeth Cymru. Rwyf i wedi fy syfrdanu gan yr ymateb yr oeddem ni wedi'i glywed ychydig funudau'n ôl gan y Gweinidog, a dweud y gwir, a ddywedodd nad ydyn nhw eisiau ymyrryd rywsut yn ymchwiliad y DU. Rwy'n gofyn i'r Gweinidog eto heddiw: ymunwch â'n galwadau ni ar gyfer rhoi statws cyfranogwr craidd i ymgyrchwyr teuluoedd mewn profedigaeth COVID-19. Ydym, yr ydym ni'n gobeithio y bydd ymchwiliad y DU yn gwrando ar y cyhoedd yng Nghymru yn gyffredinol, a Llywodraeth Cymru, a ninnau fel gwrthbleidiau, a'r gwasanaethau iechyd a gofal yng Nghymru. Ond grŵp ymgyrchu yw hwn sydd â'i gwnsler cyfreithiol ei hun, sydd wedi mynd drwy'r gwaith diwyd o gasglu'r math o dystiolaeth sydd ei hangen arnom ni i sicrhau bod ymchwiliad y DU yn ei glywed. Felly, rwy'n gofyn i Lywodraeth Cymru eto: a wnewch chi ymuno â'n galwad? Rwyf i wedi ysgrifennu at ymchwiliad y DU yn gofyn bod hynny'n digwydd, a wnaiff y Gweinidog gefnogi'r alwad honno hefyd? Nid fel y rhyngweithio unigryw rhwng Cymru a'r ymchwiliad hwnnw, ond fel elfen bwysig iawn ohono. Ac yn olaf, rydym ni'n dod at ddwy flynedd, neu yr ydym ni wedi cyrraedd pwynt dwy flynedd, ers i'r pandemig ddechrau. Mae gweithwyr iechyd a gofal yn arbennig a oedd wedi dal y feirws yn y dyddiau cynnar, ac efallai wedi bod yn agored i lwyth feirysol arbennig o drwm, oherwydd iddyn nhw fod ar y rheng flaen yn y GIG ac yn y gwasanaeth gofal. Maen nhw nawr yn wynebu'r posibilrwydd o gael eu cyflog wedi'i haneru - y rhai sy'n dal i ddioddef effeithiau dinistriol COVID hir hyd heddiw. Hyd y gwn i, mae cyfnod absenoldeb arbennig COVID yn dal i fod ar waith yn yr Alban i ddiogelu gweithwyr y GIG sydd yn y sefyllfa hon. Nid yw'n ddigon da nawr i droi o'r neilltu'r gweithwyr GIG hynny a oedd wedi rhoi eu hunain mewn perygl. Mae angen sicrwydd arnyn nhw na fyddan nhw'n gweld toriad yn eu cyflog, ac rwy'n gofyn i Lywodraeth Cymru ystyried y mater hwn fel mater o wir frys, er mwyn rhoi'r cymorth sydd ei angen ar staff gofalgar, gweithgar o fewn y GIG ar ôl iddyn nhw ofalu am eraill yn nyddiau tywyll cyntaf COVID ddwy flynedd yn ôl.