English: Well, Llywydd, let me, first of all, answer the specific question that Jane Dodds asked in introducing her supplementary question. The management information provided in the Welsh NHS suggests that, last week, the week beginning 16 January, had it been a red call, the standard waiting time - the median waiting time - from the minute a call is dispatched to it arriving with a patient was seven minutes, 43 seconds. That means, given the time that a first question on a Tuesday normally takes, by the time the question is over, the ambulance would have left and arrived. And if it were an amber call, as Jane Dodds suggested, then the average response time last week - the standard response time - was 38 minutes, 52 seconds. On the broader point, when the ambulance service last reached the target that we have set for it, it had done so for 48 months consecutively. And what happened was, in July 2020, the impact of the pandemic undid those four years of absolutely consistently meeting the targets that had been set. It is a slow recovery from all of that. But, Llywydd, as I said, it is not necessarily because the supply of service has diminished; it's because the demand for the service has gone up. In December, more calls than at any other time - more than any month in that 48-month period - more calls were answered within the target time. It is simply that the volume of calls far exceeds anything that happened in any one of those months, and despite, as Jane Dodds very fairly said, the enormous efforts of ambulance staff, when you have a rise in demand of that sort, the percentage of calls that are answered within the target time cannot be sustained. The combination of additional investment and, particularly, additional staff, is the way in which we will succeed in returning the ambulance to the level of achievement that it itself would wish to see for its patients.
Welsh: Wel, Llywydd, gadewch i mi, yn gyntaf oll, ateb y cwestiwn penodol a ofynnodd Jane Dodds wrth gyflwyno ei chwestiwn atodol. Mae'r wybodaeth reoli a ddarperir yn GIG Cymru yn awgrymu, yr wythnos ddiwethaf, yr wythnos a ddechreuodd ar 16 Ionawr, pe bai wedi bod yn alwad goch, mai saith munud, 43 eiliad oedd yr amser aros safonol - yr amser aros canolrifol - o'r funud y caiff galwad ei hanfon i gyrraedd gyda chlaf. Mae hynny'n golygu, o ystyried yr amser y mae cwestiwn cyntaf ar ddydd Mawrth yn ei gymryd fel rheol, erbyn i'r cwestiwn ddod i ben, byddai'r ambiwlans wedi gadael a chyrraedd. Ac os oedd yn alwad oren, fel yr awgrymodd Jane Dodds, yna 38 munud, 52 eiliad oedd yr amser ymateb cyfartalog yr wythnos diwethaf - yr amser ymateb safonol. Ar y pwynt ehangach, pan fodlonodd y gwasanaeth ambiwlans y targed yr ydym wedi ei osod ar ei gyfer ddiwethaf, roedd wedi gwneud hynny am 48 mis yn olynol. A'r hyn a ddigwyddodd oedd, ym mis Gorffennaf 2020, fe wnaeth effaith y pandemig ddadwneud y pedair blynedd hynny o fodloni'r targedau a osodwyd yn gwbl gyson. Mae'n adferiad araf o hynny i gyd. Ond, Llywydd, fel y dywedais, nid yw o reidrwydd oherwydd bod cyflenwad y gwasanaeth wedi lleihau; mae oherwydd bod y galw am y gwasanaeth wedi cynyddu. Ym mis Rhagfyr, atebwyd mwy o alwadau nag ar unrhyw adeg arall - mwy nag unrhyw fis yn y cyfnod hwnnw o 48 mis - atebwyd mwy o alwadau o fewn yr amser targed. Y ffaith syml yw bod nifer y galwadau yn llawer uwch nag unrhyw beth a ddigwyddodd yn unrhyw un o'r misoedd hynny, ac er gwaethaf, fel y dywedodd Jane Dodds yn deg iawn, ymdrechion enfawr staff ambiwlans, pan fydd gennych chi gynnydd i alw o'r math hwnnw, ni ellir cynnal canran y galwadau sy'n cael eu hateb o fewn yr amser targed. Y cyfuniad o fuddsoddiad ychwanegol ac, yn benodol, staff ychwanegol, yw'r ffordd y byddwn yn llwyddo i ddychwelyd yr ambiwlans i lefel y cyflawniad y byddai ef ei hun yn dymuno ei weld i'w gleifion.