English: Cabinet Secretary, further to my colleague here, residents living alongside the Ffos-y-fran opencast mine have long campaigned against air and noise pollution. There is anecdotal evidence of very high rates of childhood asthma and cancer clusters within the community. I would like to ask a couple of questions, Minister, if you'd kindly reply. If there is no independent investigation, what action will the Welsh Government take to monitor the potential health impact on the community of this opencast mine, and will they commission their own study? The second is: the Welsh Assembly has imposed a 500m buffer zone between new opencast mines in Wales and the community that surrounds them. I remember in previous Assembly sessions Bethan Jenkins raised this point in her area. A lot of points were actually agreed by the Assembly that opencast mines should not be near the housing areas, yet the nearest houses to Ffos-y-fran are only 40m away from the mining activities, which is against our laws and rules here. Does the Cabinet Secretary believe that the residents should be entitled to some form of compensation for the disturbance they are being forced to suffer in this case? The other one is: what discussions have the Welsh Government had in the past, and what discussions do they intend to have, with Miller Argent, the mining company, about negating the effect of their mining operation on the local community? Finally, Minister, will the Welsh Government agree to consider the contents of this report and bring forward a statement to this Assembly in the near future with any changes it proposes to make to planning regulations on opencast sites in Wales? Thank you.
Welsh: Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet, yn ychwanegol at yr hyn ddywedodd fy nghydweithiwr yma, mae'r trigolion sy'n byw gerllaw gwaith glo brig Ffos-y-fran wedi ymgyrchu'n hir yn erbyn llygredd aer a sŵn. Ceir tystiolaeth anecdotaidd o gyfraddau uchel iawn o asthma plentyndod a chlystyrau canser o fewn y gymuned. Hoffwn ofyn ychydig o gwestiynau, Weinidog, pe byddech mor garedig ag ateb. Os nad oes ymchwiliad annibynnol, pa gamau fydd Llywodraeth Cymru yn eu cymryd i fonitro effaith bosibl y gwaith glo brig hwn ar iechyd y gymuned, ac a fyddan nhw yn comisiynu eu hastudiaeth eu hunain? Yr ail yw: mae'r Cynulliad Cenedlaethol wedi gorfodi bod llain glustogi o 500m rhwng gweithfeydd glo brig newydd yng Nghymru a'r gymuned o'u cwmpas. Rwyf yn cofio mewn sesiynau blaenorol o'r Cynulliad bod Bethan Jenkins wedi codi'r pwynt hwn yn ei hardal hi. Cytunwyd ar lawer pwynt mewn gwirionedd gan y Cynulliad na ddylai gweithfeydd glo brig fod yn agos at dai lle mae pobl yn byw, ac eto i gyd dim ond 40m yn unig sydd rhwng y tai agosaf at Ffos-y-fran a'r gwaith mwyngloddio, sydd yn groes i'n cyfreithiau a'n rheolau yma. A yw Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet yn credu y dylai'r trigolion fod yn deilwng o ryw fath o iawndal am yr aflonyddwch y maen nhw wedi eu gorfodi i'w ddioddef yn yr achos hwn? A'r cwestiwn arall yw hwn: pa drafodaethau y mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi eu cael yn y gorffennol, a pha drafodaethau y maen nhw yn bwriadu eu cael, gyda Miller Argent, y cwmni mwyngloddio, ynglŷn â negyddu effaith eu gwaith cloddio ar y gymuned leol? Yn olaf, Weinidog, a wnaiff Llywodraeth Cymru gytuno i ystyried cynnwys yr adroddiad hwn a rhoi datganiad i'r Cynulliad hwn yn y dyfodol agos, gydag unrhyw newidiadau y mae'n bwriadu eu gwneud i reoliadau cynllunio ar safleoedd glo brig yng Nghymru? Diolch.