English: Thank you very much, Lynne Neagle, and in recognition of your stalwart work chairing the cross-party group on dementia and raising these issues with Ministers. And you will be aware that my colleague the Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services, Julie Morgan, has been working with sector representatives, including Care Forum Wales and the Older People's Commissioner for Wales, to look at that whole issue of providing guidance for care home providers on how they can support people to reconnect safely with families, friends and professionals - so crucial for those suffering dementia. And of course, care homes have worked hard to enable safe visiting for friends and families. This is vital, as you say, to the well-being of people living in care homes, as well as those who are visiting them. And I think it's very clear that we don't want - and the Deputy Minister has stressed - an unnecessarily restrictive blanket approach, but support visits to care homes have to be recognised - there has to be safety in terms of whether it's possible. But your particular focus on dementia is crucial. And I think this is a question where, of course, if there is, unfortunately, an active incident or outbreak of COVID-19 at a care home, visits have to be restricted to exceptional circumstances, compassionate reasons, such as end-of-life. But I know the Ministers will want to look at this as we approach the coming winter months, and the stress that that can bring forward for those suffering dementia and their carers and family and friends.
Welsh: Diolch yn fawr iawn, Lynne Neagle, ac i gydnabod eich gwaith blaengar yn cadeirio'r grŵp trawsbleidiol ar ddementia ac am ddwyn y materion hyn at sylw Gweinidogion. A byddwch yn ymwybodol y bu fy nghyd-Weinidog, Julie Morgan, y Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, yn gweithio gyda chynrychiolwyr y sector, gan gynnwys Fforwm Gofal Cymru a Chomisiynydd Pobl Hŷn Cymru, i edrych ar yr holl fater hwnnw o ddarparu canllawiau i ddarparwyr cartrefi gofal ar sut y gallan nhw gefnogi pobl i ailgysylltu'n ddiogel â theuluoedd, ffrindiau a gweithwyr proffesiynol - sydd mor hanfodol i'r rhai hynny sy'n dioddef o ddementia. Ac wrth gwrs, mae cartrefi gofal wedi gweithio'n galed i sicrhau y gall pobl ymweld yn ddiogel â ffrindiau a theuluoedd. Mae hyn yn hanfodol, fel y dywedwch chi, i les pobl sy'n byw mewn cartrefi gofal, yn ogystal â'r rhai sy'n ymweld â nhw. Ac rwy'n credu ei bod hi'n glir iawn nad ydym ni eisiau - ac mae'r Dirprwy Weinidog wedi pwysleisio hyn - mynd ati mewn modd sy'n gosod cyfyngiadau cyffredinol diangen, ond mae'n rhaid cydnabod ymweliadau cymorth â chartrefi gofal - mae'n rhaid cael diogelwch o ran pa un a yw hi'n bosibl gwneud hynny. Ond mae eich pwyslais arbennig ar ddementia yn hollbwysig. A chredaf fod hwn yn gwestiwn pan, wrth gwrs, os oes digwyddiad neu achosion gweithredol o COVID-19 mewn cartref gofal, mae'n rhaid cyfyngu ymweliadau i amgylchiadau eithriadol, rhesymau tosturiol, megis diwedd oes. Ond rwy'n gwybod y bydd y Gweinidogion eisiau ystyried hyn wrth i ni nesáu at fisoedd y gaeaf sydd ar ddod, a'r straen y gall hynny ei roi ar y rhai sy'n dioddef o ddementia a'u gofalwyr a'u teulu a'u ffrindiau.