English: I very much welcome this statement. Far too many children move home between once and twice a year. It's obviously disruptive to education that they move from school to school. High-quality housing, secure and affordable, will improve the health and life outcomes for very many of my constituents. There are two separate private rented markets: there's the high-quality and expensive market that is providing very good quality homes to very many people, all of whom are incredibly happy with the housing provided; there's also the lower cost, but not low cost, rented sector. I welcome the requirement to meet the Welsh housing quality standard to be part of the scheme - I know people living in houses that do not meet the wind and waterproof conditions, never mind anything else. And offering five-year assured tenancies would actually mean a child moving in at the age of 11 would still be in the same house going to the same school when they took their GCSEs five years later. What a tremendous advantage to those children, rather than perhaps going from two or three different comprehensive schools, having to make new friends, having to settle in, and having discovered that the school has done things in a different order, so they do some things twice and some things not at all. I think these are really important. As you know, I believe very strongly in council housing, and I hope you will join me in condemning remarks made by Jacob Rees-Mogg regarding the Grenfell Tower disaster. I've got three questions for you. How much interest do you expect from landlords in areas such as Cardiff and Swansea, where there is substantial, often unmet, housing demand? I can see, in other areas where demand and supply aren't far off equilibrium, or even parts of some areas where demand isn't far off equilibrium, where you may well get landlords saying, 'This is guaranteed income.' Isn't it the long-term solution just building or buying sufficient council houses, where we actually have control over the quality of houses people are moving into? It will also release a lot of these properties for first-time buyers. The people who lose out most, because of the private landlords buying up housing, are potential first-time buyers who don't, in those immortal words, get their foot on the first rung of the ladder because they've already been bought up for private renting. The third question is: how does the offer of this new scheme to helping to renovate houses differ or is an improvement on the scheme that currently exists for bringing houses back into use that are currently empty?
Welsh: Rwy'n croesawu'r datganiad hwn yn fawr. Mae llawer gormod o blant yn newid cartref rhwng unwaith a dwywaith y flwyddyn. Mae'n amlwg yn amharu ar addysg wrth iddyn nhw symud o ysgol i ysgol. Bydd tai o ansawdd uchel, diogel a fforddiadwy, yn gwella iechyd a bywyd llawer iawn o'm hetholwyr. Mae dwy farchnad ar wahân ar gyfer rhentu preifat: mae yna farchnadoedd o ansawdd uchel a drud sy'n darparu cartrefi o ansawdd da iawn i lawer iawn o bobl, ac mae pob un ohonyn nhw yn hynod o hapus gyda'r tai a ddarperir; mae hefyd y sector rhentu cost is, ond nid cost isel. Rwy'n croesawu'r gofyniad i gyrraedd safon ansawdd tai Cymru i fod yn rhan o'r cynllun - rwy'n adnabod pobl sy'n byw mewn tai nad ydynt yn bodloni'r amodau gwrth-wynt a dal dŵr, heb sôn am unrhyw beth arall. A byddai cynnig tenantiaethau sicr pum mlynedd mewn gwirionedd yn golygu y byddai plentyn a oedd yn symud i mewn pan oedd yn 11 oed yn dal i fod yn yr un tŷ yn mynd i'r un ysgol i sefyll ei arholiadau TGAU bum mlynedd yn ddiweddarach. Mantais aruthrol i'r plant hynny, yn hytrach na mynd o bosibl i ddwy neu dair ysgol gyfun wahanol, yn gorfod gwneud ffrindiau newydd, gorfod ymgartrefu, ac yn darganfod bod yr ysgol wedi gwneud pethau mewn trefn wahanol, fel eu bod yn gwneud rhai pethau ddwywaith a ddim yn gwneud rhai pethau o gwbl. Rwy'n credu bod y rhain yn bwysig iawn. Fel y gwyddoch chi, credaf yn gryf iawn mewn tai cyngor, a gobeithiaf y byddwch yn ymuno â mi i gondemnio sylwadau a wnaethpwyd gan Jacob Rees-Mogg am drychineb Tŵr Grenfell. Mae gennyf i dri chwestiwn i chi. Faint o ddiddordeb a ddisgwyliwch gan landlordiaid mewn ardaloedd fel Caerdydd ac Abertawe, lle mae galw sylweddol, nad yw'n cael ei ddiwallu'n aml, am dai? Gallaf weld, mewn meysydd eraill lle nad yw'r galw a'r cyflenwad rywbeth yn debyg, neu hyd yn oed rannau o rai ardaloedd lle mae'r cyflenwad a'r galw rywbeth yn debyg, lle mae'n ddigon posib y caech chi landlordiaid yn dweud, 'mae hyn yn gwarantu incwm'. Onid yr ateb tymor hir yw adeiladu neu brynu digon o dai cyngor, lle mae gennym ni reolaeth mewn gwirionedd dros ansawdd y tai y mae pobl yn symud iddyn nhw? Bydd hefyd yn rhyddhau llawer o'r eiddo ar gyfer prynwyr tro cyntaf. Y bobl sydd ar eu colled fwyaf, oherwydd bod landlordiaid preifat yn prynu tai, yw darpar brynwyr tro cyntaf nad ydyn nhw, yn y geiriau anfarwol hynny, yn cael troedle ar ris gyntaf yr ysgol gan eu bod eisoes wedi cael eu prynu ar gyfer rhentu'n breifat. Y trydydd cwestiwn yw: sut mae cynnig y cynllun newydd hwn i helpu i adnewyddu tai yn wahanol neu'n well na'r cynllun sy'n bodoli ar hyn o bryd ar gyfer dod â thai sy'n wag ar hyn o bryd yn ôl i ddefnydd?