English: I welcome the opportunity to say a few words on the retirement of the auditor general, Huw Vaughan Thomas. I've been a member of the Public Accounts Committee, or a substitute member, since 2011. To me, the outgoing auditor general had two great strengths, which I hope Nick Ramsay will agree with me on: knowing what the key areas to investigate and report on were, and proportionality in his response. If anybody follows the auditor general's reports, the auditor general's office produces many each year, but it's actually about identifying the key ones, going into them in detail, and reporting back and taking them before the Public Accounts Committee, because if the Public Accounts Committee received all of them, they'd spend an hour each week just receiving and accepting. So, it's the proportionality in what to deal with and highlighting major failings of Government departments - Penmon fish farm, Kancoat, Powys Fadog, the Circuit of Wales - projects that could never have succeeded and that should have been picked up by the civil servants at the very earliest moment as projects that were incapable of success. The failure to do that - . The auditor general has brought those to the attention of Welsh Government, which I hope will work in the future - that people will cast a critical eye over projects and whether they actually can work or not. Many projects will fail, many good projects will fail for all sorts of reasons, but if the auditor general leaves us with something, it's that people cast a critical eye over projects and say, 'Can this project actually succeed?', and when the answer is 'no', then those projects don't get taken forward and money is not spent on them. Can I just finally wish Huw Vaughan Thomas a long and happy retirement? I've enjoyed seven years of discussions, not always agreements with him, but always something that I think I've learnt a lot from, and I hope he's enjoyed.
Welsh: Rwy'n croesawu'r cyfle i ddweud ychydig eiriau ar ymddeoliad yr archwilydd cyffredinol, Huw Vaughan Thomas. Rwyf wedi bod yn aelod o'r Pwyllgor Cyfrifon Cyhoeddus, neu'n aelod dirprwyol, ers 2011. I mi, roedd dau gryfder mawr yn perthyn i'r archwilydd cyffredinol sy'n ymadael, a gobeithio y bydd Nick Ramsay yn cytuno â mi yn eu cylch: gwybod beth yw'r meysydd allweddol i'w hymchwilio ac i adrodd arnynt, a chymesuredd yn ei ymateb. Os bydd unrhyw un yn dilyn adroddiadau'r archwilydd cyffredinol, mae swyddfa'r archwilydd cyffredinol yn cynhyrchu nifer bob blwyddyn, ond mae'n ymwneud mewn gwirionedd â nodi'r rhai allweddol, mynd i mewn iddynt yn fanwl, ac adrodd yn ôl a'u cyflwyno gerbron y Pwyllgor Cyfrifon Cyhoeddus, oherwydd pe bai'r Pwyllgor Cyfrifon Cyhoeddus yn derbyn pob un ohonynt, byddent yn treulio awr bob wythnos yn gwneud dim mwy na chael a derbyn. Felly, mae cymesuredd o ran beth i ymdrin ag ef a thynnu sylw at fethiannau mawr adrannau'r Llywodraeth - fferm bysgod Penmon, Kancoat, Powys Fadog, Cylchffordd Cymru - prosiectau na allai byth â bod wedi llwyddo ac y dylai gweision sifil fod wedi sylwi arnynt ar y cam cyntaf un fel prosiectau na allai lwyddo. Mae'r methiant i wneud hynny - . Mae'r archwilydd cyffredinol wedi dod â'r rhain i sylw Llywodraeth Cymru, a gobeithiaf y bydd hynny'n gweithio yn y dyfodol - y bydd pobl yn bwrw golwg feirniadol dros brosiectau a ph'un a allant weithio ai peidio mewn gwirionedd. Bydd llawer o brosiectau'n methu, bydd llawer o brosiectau da yn methu am bob math o resymau, ond un peth yn anad dim y mae'r archwilydd cyffredinol yn ei adael i ni yw'r modd y dylai pobl fwrw golwg feirniadol dros brosiectau a gofyn, 'A all y prosiect hwn lwyddo mewn gwirionedd?', a phan fyddwn yn ateb 'na', yna ni fydd y prosiectau hynny'n cael eu datblygu ac ni werir arian arnynt. A gaf fi orffen drwy ddymuno ymddeoliad hir a hapus i Huw Vaughan Thomas? Rwyf wedi mwynhau saith mlynedd o drafodaethau gydag ef, ac nid rhai cytûn bob amser, ond rhai y credaf bob amser fy mod wedi dysgu llawer ohonynt, a gobeithio ei fod yntau wedi eu mwynhau hefyd.