English: Thank you for that answer, First Minister. If Welsh Government hadn't just given Cardiff Airport a £42.6 million grant, it could have recruited 1,000 new NHS nurses and paid them for two years. Recently, the transport Minister blamed the COVID pandemic for the need to write off £40 million of debt that the airport owes to the Welsh taxpayer and award them this further eye-wateringly large grant, but it isn't COVID that is responsible for this, is it? Cardiff Airport has never made a profit under Government ownership, and in the year up to last March - when, according to Mr Skates, it had the highest passenger numbers ever going through the airport - it made its biggest loss ever, even when you take into account the one-off expenditure for that year. It's true that COVID has tipped all our airports into making a loss, but Cardiff was already making big losses before, losing the taxpayer £20 million a year. Passenger numbers aren't expected to recover to pre-COVID levels for more than three years, so, for the foreseeable future, you will have to grant Cardiff Airport at least £20 million a year, the same amount of money as a further year's salary for those 1,000 extra nurses you could have recruited instead. This isn't just a bad deal for north Wales, it's a bad deal for the entire country. Isn't it the case, First Minister, that you're keeping Cardiff Airport in public ownership for political reasons, because you're too embarrassed to admit that it's never going to be viable and you should never have invested a single penny of Welsh people's money into it in the first place? The latest bail-out for Cardiff Airport is so unsound commercially that even the Development Bank of Wales, which deliberately takes greater risk than the market, wouldn't have lent it any money. So, First Minister, is the sky the limit for the amount of good money after bad you're prepared to throw at Cardiff Airport, or will you now protect Welsh public money, stop funding the airport, and spend it on improving the Welsh NHS instead?
Welsh: Diolch am yr ateb yna, Prif Weinidog. Pe na byddai Llywodraeth Cymru newydd roi grant o £42.6 miliwn i Faes Awyr Caerdydd, gallai fod wedi recriwtio 1,000 o nyrsys GIG newydd a'u talu nhw am ddwy flynedd. Yn ddiweddar, rhoddodd y Gweinidog trafnidiaeth y bai am yr angen i ddileu £40 miliwn o ddyled sy'n ddyledus i drethdalwyr Cymru gan y maes awyr a dyfarnu'r grant aruthrol o fawr hwn iddyn nhw ar bandemig COVID, ond nid COVID sy'n gyfrifol am hyn, nage? Nid yw Maes Awyr Caerdydd erioed wedi gwneud elw o dan berchnogaeth y Llywodraeth, ac yn y flwyddyn hyd at fis Mawrth diwethaf - pan roedd ganddo, yn ôl Mr Skates, y niferoedd uchaf o deithwyr erioed yn mynd drwy'r maes awyr - gwnaeth ei golled fwyaf erioed, hyd yn oed pan fyddwch chi'n cymryd y gwariant untro ar gyfer y flwyddyn honno i ystyriaeth. Mae'n wir bod COVID wedi gwthio ein holl feysydd awyr i wneud colled, ond roedd Caerdydd eisoes yn gwneud colledion mawr cynt, gan golli £20 miliwn y flwyddyn i'r trethdalwr. Ni ddisgwylir i niferoedd teithwyr ddychwelyd i lefelau cyn COVID am fwy na thair blynedd, felly, hyd y gellir rhagweld, bydd yn rhaid i chi roi o leiaf £20 miliwn y flwyddyn i Faes Awyr Caerdydd, yr un swm o arian â chyflog blwyddyn arall ar gyfer y 1,000 o nyrsys ychwanegol hynny y gallech chi fod wedi eu recriwtio yn hytrach na hynny. Nid bargen wael i'r gogledd yn unig yw hon, mae'n fargen wael i'r wlad gyfan. Onid yw'n wir, Prif Weinidog, eich bod chi'n cadw Maes Awyr Caerdydd mewn perchnogaeth gyhoeddus am resymau gwleidyddol, gan ei fod yn achosi gormod o gywilydd i chi gyfaddef na fydd byth yn hyfyw ac na ddylech chi fyth fod wedi buddsoddi yr un geiniog o arian pobl Cymru ynddo yn y lle cyntaf? Mae'r achubiad diweddaraf i Faes Awyr Caerdydd mor ddi-sail yn fasnachol fel na fyddai hyd yn oed Banc Datblygu Cymru, sy'n cymryd mwy o risg yn fwriadol na'r farchnad, wedi rhoi benthyg unrhyw arian iddo. Felly, Prif Weinidog, a oes terfyn i faint o arian da ar ôl drwg yr ydych chi'n barod i'w daflu at Faes Awyr Caerdydd, neu a wnewch chi ddiogelu arian cyhoeddus Cymru nawr, rhoi'r gorau i ariannu'r maes awyr, a'i wario ar wella GIG Cymru yn hytrach?