English: I'm grateful to the Minister for his confirmation that this 32-hour week is merely an aspiration for 10 years' time. I think that will be quite reassuring to many of the health boards who are under enormous pressure already, with waiting lists having increased by 16,000 for hospitals just in the latest year. One area of policy from your party at a UK level, which again I understand will apply here in Wales through law, is that they've stated that any ability to opt out of the 48-hour maximum on a working week will end. Now, I know there is guidance within the NHS as to how that applies for NHS contracts, but consultants currently are allowed to opt out of that 48-hour cap if they are then doing private work that, added to their NHS work, comes to more than 48 hours. Given the firm commitment from your party to remove that cap through UK law, what assessment have you made of the impact on NHS working hours for consultants if they choose to reduce NHS hours in order to facilitate private work within that cap? Could you also say what consideration you've given to the issue of the taper for pensions, which is affecting many consultants, and whether you think that's a contributory factor to that 16,000 increase in hours? We've had a proposal, I think today, from UK Government for the English NHS. And I'm not recommending you accept it here - it seems to be quite 'make do and mend' in terms of that NHS consultants will pay out of their pension fund for the extra tax, but there's then a promise to pay it back to them at some point in the future. If not that, are you giving consideration to any other mechanisms that might encourage NHS consultants to offer up more hours to try and help waiting lists, both in terms of the pensions and that 48-hour cap that otherwise is pending if a UK Government were - something we would certainly not want to see - to come in at the election, let alone for 10 years?
Welsh: Rwy'n ddiolchgar i'r Gweinidog am gadarnhau mai dim ond uchelgais ymhen 10 mlynedd yw'r wythnos 32 awr hon. Rwy'n meddwl y bydd hynny'n tawelu meddyliau llawer o'r byrddau iechyd sydd o dan bwysau enfawr eisoes, ar ôl i'r rhestrau aros gynyddu gan 16,000 ar gyfer ysbytai yn y flwyddyn ddiweddaraf yn unig. Un maes polisi gan eich plaid ar lefel y DU, yr wyf i hefyd yn deall fydd yn berthnasol yma yng Nghymru drwy'r gyfraith, yw eu bod nhw wedi datgan y bydd unrhyw allu i optio allan o'r uchafswm o 48 awr ar wythnos waith yn dod i ben. Nawr, gwn fod canllawiau o fewn y GIG o ran sut mae hynny'n berthnasol i gontractau GIG, ond caniateir i feddygon ymgynghorol optio allan o'r cap 48 awr hwnnw ar hyn o bryd os ydyn nhw wedyn yn gwneud gwaith preifat sydd, yn ychwanegol at eu gwaith yn y GIG, yn dod i gyfanswm o fwy na 48 awr. O ystyried yr ymrwymiad cadarn gan eich plaid i ddileu'r cap hwnnw drwy gyfraith y DU, pa asesiad ydych chi wedi ei wneud o'r effaith ar oriau gwaith y GIG i feddygon ymgynghorol os byddan nhw'n dewis lleihau oriau GIG er mwyn hwyluso gwaith preifat o fewn y cap hwnnw? A allwch chi hefyd ddweud pa ystyriaeth yr ydych chi wedi ei rhoi i fater y tapr ar gyfer pensiynau, sy'n effeithio ar lawer o feddygon ymgynghorol, a pha un a ydych chi'n credu bod hwnnw'n ffactor sy'n cyfrannu at y cynnydd hwnnw o 16,000 i'r oriau? Rydym ni wedi cael cynnig, rwy'n credu heddiw, gan Lywodraeth y DU ar gyfer GIG Lloegr. Ac nid wyf i'n argymell y dylech chi ei dderbyn yma - mae'n ymddangos ei fod yn bolisi 'clytio a thrwsio' o ran y ffaith y bydd meddygon ymgynghorol y GIG yn talu'r dreth ychwanegol allan o'u cronfa bensiwn, ond ceir addewid wedyn i'w had-dalu iddyn nhw rywbryd yn y dyfodol. Os nad hynny, a ydych chi'n rhoi ystyriaeth i unrhyw ddulliau eraill a allai annog meddygon ymgynghorol y GIG i gynnig mwy o oriau i geisio helpu rhestri aros, o ran y pensiynau a'r cap hwnnw o 48 awr sydd fel arall yn yr arfaeth pe byddai Llywodraeth y DU - rhywbeth na fyddem ni'n sicr eisiau ei weld - yn cael ei gyflwyno yn yr etholiad, heb sôn am 10 mlynedd?