English: Adam Price is quite right to say that, during the last Labour administration, Scotland Yard took allegations of the sale of honours so seriously that they sent very senior members of Scotland Yard into Downing Street without any notice of their arrival. It would be interesting to see whether they do indeed take the same approach with the current instances. I have long believed in the abolition of the House of Lords. I believe in its replacement by an elected second chamber in which the position of the nations is protected - in some ways, as the Senate operates in the United States system. But, some of the things that we have heard recently are not simply to do with the House of Lords; they are to do with the extraordinary ways in which some Members of Parliament also appear to operate. The case of Geoffrey Cox that we have been reading about today defies belief - a man being paid nearly £0.5 million to work for a foreign Government that is under investigation for corruption by the UK Government and doing all of that when he appears to have a full-time job representing his own constituents. You could not make it up. I do think, in a way, Llywydd, that it is almost, for me, trumped by the news about another former Minister, Chris Grayling - a man, you'll remember, where the National Audit Office said that the cost of compensating people for the contracts that he had negotiated for ferries would be £56 million. You'll remember his deal with Seaborne Freight: £14 million to a company that didn't even own a ferry - not a single one - and £1 million paid to consultants in order to secure that contract. I lie awake at night wondering how you can pay £1 million to a consultant to land you with a contract with a company for ferry purposes that didn't even have a ferry. But, the good news is that Chris Grayling is now earning £100,000 over and above his salary as a consultant to a ports company. Well, he's a man with a lot of expertise to draw on, as we know.
Welsh: Mae Adam Price yn llygad ei le i ddweud, yn ystod y weinyddiaeth Lafur ddiwethaf, fod Scotland Yard wedi cymryd honiadau o werthu anrhydeddau mor ddifrifol ei fod wedi anfon aelodau uchel iawn o Scotland Yard i Downing Street heb unrhyw rybudd eu bod nhw'n dod. Byddai'n ddiddorol gweld a yw mewn gwirionedd yn mabwysiadu'r un dull o ran yr achosion presennol. Rwyf i wedi credu ers tro byd mewn diddymu Tŷ'r Arglwyddi. Rwy'n credu mewn ei ddisodli ag ail siambr etholedig lle mae sefyllfa'r cenhedloedd wedi ei diogelu - mewn rhai ffyrdd, fel y mae'r Senedd yn gweithredu yn system yr Unol Daleithiau. Ond, nid yw rhai o'r pethau yr ydym ni wedi eu clywed yn ddiweddar yn ymwneud â Thŷ'r Arglwyddi yn unig; maen nhw'n ymwneud â'r ffyrdd eithriadol y mae'n ymddangos bod rhai Aelodau Seneddol yn gweithredu hefyd. Mae achos Geoffrey Cox yr ydym ni wedi bod yn darllen amdano y tu hwnt i ddisgrifiad - dyn yn cael ei dalu bron i £0.5 miliwn i weithio i Lywodraeth dramor sy'n destun ymchwiliad i lygredd gan Lywodraeth y DU ac yn gwneud hynny i gyd pan fo'n ymddangos bod ganddo swydd lawnamser yn cynrychioli ei etholwyr ei hun. Ni allech chi wneud y peth i fyny. Rwyf i yn meddwl, mewn ffordd, Llywydd, ei bod bron, i mi, yn cael ei drechu gan y newyddion am gyn-Weinidog arall, Chris Grayling - dyn, y byddwch chi'n cofio, lle dywedodd y Swyddfa Archwilio Genedlaethol y byddai'r gost o ddigolledu pobl am y contractau yr oedd wedi eu cytuno ar gyfer fferïau yn £56 miliwn. Byddwch chi'n cofio ei gytundeb gyda Seaborne Freight: £14 miliwn i gwmni nad oedd hyd yn oed yn berchen ar fferi - dim un o gwbl - ac £1 miliwn yn cael ei thalu i ymgynghorwyr er mwyn sicrhau'r contract hwnnw. Rwy'n gorwedd yn effro yn y nos yn meddwl tybed sut gallwch chi dalu £1 miliwn i ymgynghorydd i sicrhau contract i chi gyda chwmni at ddibenion fferïau nad oedd ganddo fferi hyd yn oed. Ond, y newyddion da yw bod Chris Grayling bellach yn ennill £100,000 yn ychwanegol at ei gyflog fel ymgynghorydd i gwmni porthladdoedd. Wel, mae'n ddyn sydd â llawer o arbenigedd i fanteisio arno, fel y gwyddom.