English: I can assure you that my officials are working on this as we speak. There's a lot of work being done. I do think people need to understand that we do have a legal requirement in terms of safe staffing levels. If you're saying, 'Don't use agency staff', what that will mean is that we'll have to close wards. There will be accident and emergency services that will have to stop. That's the consequence of doing it too quickly. We know we have to do more, but we can't do it overnight. It's true that we do have choices. We've heard calls today to increase Welsh rates of income tax to pay nurses. I explained earlier that prioritising one group of public sector staff over another has significant consequences. We would want to consider giving all public sector workers an inflation-matching pay rise, but that is going to be extremely difficult. We'd need to raise at least an extra £900 million. To raise that through the Welsh rates of income tax, we'd need to raise the basic rate not by a penny, but by 4.5p. Such a rise could generate about £900 million. So, we could cover it, but imagine what that would mean. It would mean that, in Wales, one of the poorest parts of the UK, we would have some of the highest tax rates. It would have to become permanent, and let me just give you an example of what that means in practice. Somebody earning £20,000 in Wales would be paying an extra £424 a year in tax, and someone earning £30,000 in Wales would be paying £784 more in tax. And don't forget that nurses would be covered by that. So, if they're earning £35,000, even nurses would have to pay an extra £1,009 in tax. Another lever available to us would be to make deep cuts into existing and future health and social care budgets. That would mean job cuts and cuts to services. It would mean longer waiting times and fewer new medicines. Of course, that is possible. The Scottish Government have decided to do that, and what they've done is massive cuts to budgets to front-line services. That's the reality of what you need to do. If we were to do the same, it would -
Welsh: Gallaf eich sicrhau bod fy swyddogion yn gweithio ar hyn wrth i ni siarad. Mae llawer o waith yn cael ei wneud. Rwy'n credu bod angen i bobl ddeall bod gennym ofyniad cyfreithiol mewn perthynas â lefelau staffio diogel. Os ydych chi'n dweud, 'Peidiwch â defnyddio staff asiantaeth', bydd hynny'n golygu y bydd rhaid inni gau wardiau. Bydd rhaid i wasanaethau damweiniau ac achosion brys stopio. Dyna ganlyniad ei wneud yn rhy gyflym. Rydym yn gwybod bod rhaid inni wneud mwy, ond ni allwn ei wneud dros nos. Mae'n wir fod gennym ddewisiadau. Clywsom alwadau heddiw i gynyddu cyfraddau Cymreig y dreth incwm i dalu nyrsys. Eglurais yn gynharach fod blaenoriaethu un grŵp o staff y sector cyhoeddus dros un arall yn arwain at ganlyniadau sylweddol. Byddem eisiau ystyried rhoi codiad cyflog i gyd-fynd â chwyddiant i bob gweithiwr sector cyhoeddus, ond mae hynny'n mynd i fod yn anodd dros ben. Byddai angen inni godi o leiaf £900 miliwn ychwanegol. Er mwyn codi hynny drwy gyfraddau treth incwm Cymreig, byddai angen inni godi, nid ceiniog ond 4.5c, ar y gyfradd sylfaenol. Gallai'r fath godiad gynhyrchu tua £900 miliwn. Felly, gallem ei wneud, ond dychmygwch beth fyddai hynny'n ei olygu. Byddai'n golygu y byddai gennym rai o'r cyfraddau treth uchaf yng Nghymru, sy'n un o rannau tlotaf y DU. Byddai'n rhaid iddo fod yn barhaol, a gadewch imi roi enghraifft i chi o'r hyn y mae hynny'n ei olygu yn ymarferol. Byddai rhywun sy'n ennill £20,000 yng Nghymru yn talu £424 ychwanegol y flwyddyn mewn treth, a byddai rhywun sy'n ennill £30,000 yng Nghymru yn talu £784 yn fwy o dreth. A pheidiwch ag anghofio y byddai nyrsys wedi'u cynnwys yn hynny. Felly os ydynt yn ennill £35,000, byddai'n rhaid i hyd yn oed nyrsys dalu £1,009 ychwanegol o dreth. Ysgogiad arall sydd ar gael i ni fyddai gwneud toriadau dwfn i gyllidebau iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol nawr ac yn y dyfodol. Byddai hynny'n golygu torri swyddi a thoriadau i wasanaethau. Byddai'n golygu amseroedd aros hwy a llai o feddyginiaethau newydd. Wrth gwrs, mae hynny'n bosibl. Mae Llywodraeth yr Alban wedi penderfynu gwneud hynny, a'r hyn a wnaethant yw toriadau enfawr i gyllidebau gwasanaethau rheng flaen. Dyna realiti'r hyn sydd angen i chi ei wneud. Pe baem ni'n gwneud yr un peth, fe fyddai -