English: Diolch - I'm not sure if I should be saying 'Dirprwy Dirprwy Lywydd'. Can I thank all those who've made contributions to the debate? There are those, obviously, who have been involved in this for some period of time - both Bethan Sayed and Lynne Neagle have been very involved in these matters. Lynne Neagle mentioned the cost of appeals and the planning inspectorate flying in the face of MTAN regulations. Dr Cox pointed out that the opening words of the inspector in the Varteg appeal were, 'MTAN is only guidance, I make the law here', which sort of says that MTAN is not really as strong as it should be. Mark Reckless spoke against making MTAN statutory on the basis that powers should be on a local basis. He also made the point that planning applications should take into account energy security for the country and its possible impact on those planning applications. Dawn Bowden mentioned, of course, Ffos-y-fran, as she would do being the Member for Merthyr, and of course she's raised that very, very important matter of restoration - that owners must restore the site after the end of operations. She mentioned there are also applications in for planning for another opencast in her area and how that was absolutely opposed by the local community. Bethan Sayed spoke about the lack of restoration as well to former operations in her area, and that's an ongoing issue obviously in those areas. She also spoke of restoration in Wales in general. She mentioned the fact that perhaps we should rewrite the MTAN law completely. Maybe that is something we ought to look at. She called for greater expertise to be created in local authorities, thus keeping decisions at a local level, which I think is a very, very important point to make. Gareth Bennett spoke about the delay of dealing with this petition and mentioned that there was a very large backlog in petitions, which was addressed first of all by Mike Hedges when he was the Chair of the committee, and it's an ongoing process that we're involved in. We are trying to speed up the process, but Lynne Neagle was absolutely right in saying that something that was brought to our attention as long ago as, I think, 2013 probably should have come before this Assembly some time ago. If I turn to the points made now by the Cabinet Secretary, I think there is a general agreement from the Cabinet Secretary that we have to look very, very carefully at any new planning applications, particularly for opencast mining, and it is gratifying to hear her restate the Welsh Government's absolute commitment to a carbon-free Wales and therefore the likelihood of such developments being very unlikely in the future. So, today's debate concludes the committee's consideration of these two petitions. I hope that the process that has been carried out, which I acknowledge again was a lengthy one, has supported the petitioners and others to raise their concerns and proposals. It remains to be seen, of course, what will happen in the future in relation to opencast mining in Wales and whether we will see any new applications. What I can say is that the Assembly's petitions process will remain open for people to raise their concerns on national issues such as planning policy as and when required. Diolch yn fawr.
Welsh: Diolch - nid wyf yn siŵr a ddylwn ddweud 'Dirprwy Ddirprwy Lywydd'. Hoffwn ddiolch i bawb sydd wedi cyfrannu at y ddadl. Mae rhai, wrth gwrs, wedi bod yn ymwneud â hyn ers peth amser - mae Bethan Sayed a Lynne Neagle wedi chwarae rhan fawr yn y materion hyn. Soniodd Lynne Neagle am gost apeliadau a'r arolygiaeth gynllunio'n mynd yn groes i reoliadau MTAN. Nododd Dr Cox mai geiriau agoriadol yr arolygydd yn apêl y Farteg oedd, 'Canllawiau'n unig yw'r MTAN, fi sy'n deddfu yma', sy'n rhyw fath o dweud nad yw'r MTAN mor gryf ag y dylai fod. Siaradodd Mark Reckless yn erbyn gwneud MTAN yn statudol ar y sail y dylai pwerau fod ar sail leol. Hefyd gwnaeth y pwynt y dylai ceisiadau cynllunio ystyried diogelwch ynni ar gyfer y wlad a'i effaith bosibl ar y ceisiadau cynllunio hynny. Soniodd Dawn Bowden am Ffos-y-frân wrth gwrs, fel y byddai'n ei wneud gan mai hi yw'r Aelod dros Ferthyr Tudful, ac wrth gwrs tynnodd sylw at fater tra phwysig gwaith adfer - fod yn rhaid i berchnogion adfer y safle ar ôl i'r gwaith ddod i ben. Soniodd fod yna geisiadau cynllunio i mewn hefyd ar gyfer gwaith cloddio glo brig arall yn ei hardal a sut roedd y gymuned leol yn ei wrthwynebu'n llwyr. Siaradodd Bethan Sayed am y diffyg gwaith adfer hefyd mewn hen weithfeydd yn ei hardal, ac mae hwnnw'n fater parhaus yn yr ardaloedd hynny wrth gwrs. Hefyd, soniodd am waith adfer yng Nghymru yn gyffredinol. Soniodd am y ffaith y dylem ailysgrifennu'r gyfraith MTAN yn llwyr o bosibl. Efallai fod hynny'n rhywbeth y dylem edrych arno. Galwodd am greu mwy o arbenigedd mewn awdurdodau lleol, gan gadw penderfyniadau ar lefel leol, a chredaf fod hwnnw'n bwynt pwysig dros ben i'w wneud. Siaradodd Gareth Bennett am yr oedi cyn ymdrin â'r ddeiseb hon a nododd fod yna ôl-groniad mawr iawn o ddeisebau, mater a gafodd sylw yn gyntaf gan Mike Hedges pan oedd yn Gadeirydd y pwyllgor, ac mae'n broses sydd ar y gweill gennym yn barhaus. Rydym yn ceisio cyflymu'r broses, ond roedd Lynne Neagle yn llygad ei lle pan ddywedodd y dylai rhywbeth y tynnwyd ein sylw ato cyn belled yn ôl â 2013, rwy'n credu, fod wedi dod gerbron y Cynulliad hwn beth amser yn ôl. Os caf droi at y pwyntiau a wnaed yn awr gan Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet, credaf fod yna gytundeb cyffredinol gan Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet fod yn rhaid inni edrych yn ofalus iawn ar unrhyw geisiadau cynllunio newydd, yn enwedig ar gyfer cloddio glo brig, ac mae'n braf ei chlywed yn ailddatgan ymrwymiad llwyr Llywodraeth Cymru i Gymru ddi-garbon gan wneud y tebygolrwydd o ddatblygiadau o'r fath yn annhebygol iawn yn y dyfodol. Felly, daw'r ddadl heddiw ag ystyriaeth y pwyllgor o'r deisebau hyn i ben. Gobeithiaf fod y broses a ddilynwyd, ac rwy'n cydnabod eto iddi fod yn un hir, wedi cynorthwyo'r deisebwyr ac eraill i fynegi eu pryderon a'u cynigion. Cawn weld eto, wrth gwrs, beth fydd yn digwydd yn y dyfodol mewn perthynas â chloddio glo brig yng Nghymru ac a welwn unrhyw geisiadau newydd. Yr hyn y gallaf ei ddweud yw y bydd proses ddeisebau'r Cynulliad yn aros yn agored i bobl leisio eu pryderon ynglŷn â materion cenedlaethol megis polisi cynllunio yn ôl yr angen. Diolch yn fawr.