English: This is not the statement that I had expected today; it's not the statement that I think the people of Wales needed to hear. This isn't a plan; this is a status report. It's a report on what Government has been doing to try to get the NHS ready for winter, to try to deal with current pressures, but frankly we know that what this Labour Government has done hasn't worked. What we want to know is what they're going to do differently. The results of the crisis are plain to see for patients; they're plain to see for staff. But where's the change of direction? In fact, where's the kind of action that shows that the Government is in genuine crisis mode here? Because this was only going to be a half-hour discussion - a half hour on what's clear from my postbag, and, I'm sure, everybody else's here, is no doubt the biggest health crisis, other than COVID itself, of course, that we have witnessed. What I'm seeing is a Labour Minister finding blame for the crisis rather than suggesting new solutions to it. She has the audacity, frankly, to appear to blame the nurses, saying that their industrial action has placed additional pressure on systems, when it's pressure on them, on the nurses and others, together with a decade-long pay squeeze, that led them to vote to strike. And whilst I absolutely agree with the Minister on the injustice of the Conservative years of austerity, she has to recognise that this is Welsh Government's fault. Does the Minister recognise that the failure to support staff in particular is Welsh Labour Government's fault? She points to the delayed transfer of care figures as a cause of lost capacity in the system, but it's her job to create that capacity. What we need is a more ambitious plan, frankly, to speed up patient flow through the health and care system. She mentioned today the creation of 500 extra community beds. That's positive, but we've lost thousands of beds. I wrote to her some weeks ago, asking for work to be done on the possibility of setting up COVID-style temporary community step-down facilities. The First Minister - rather patronisingly, I thought - said yesterday that those suggesting that are well-meaning, but that the problem is a lack of staff, not beds. Well, (a), it's both, and, (b), Welsh Government is responsible for both: both bed numbers and staffing capacity. And, frankly, woeful workforce planning, plus of course the current lack of meaningful engagement on resolving industrial disputes, is making staff shortages worse. Does the Minister recognise that the failure to resolve delayed transfers of care is the Labour Government's fault?
Welsh: Nid hwn oedd y datganiad yr oeddwn i'n ei ddisgwyl heddiw; nid hwn oedd y datganiad yr oedd angen i bobl Cymru ei glywed yn fy marn i. Nid cynllun yw hwn; adroddiad ar sefyllfa yw hwn. Adroddiad yw hwn ar yr hyn y mae'r Llywodraeth wedi bod yn ei wneud i geisio paratoi'r GIG ar gyfer y gaeaf, i geisio ymdrin â'r pwysau presennol, ond a dweud y gwir rydym ni'n gwybod nad yw'r hyn a wnaeth y Llywodraeth Lafur hon wedi gweithio. Yr hyn yr ydym ni eisiau ei wybod yw beth fyddan nhw'n ei wneud yn wahanol. Mae canlyniadau'r argyfwng i'w gweld yn eglur i gleifion; maen nhw i'w gweld yn eglur i staff. Ond ble mae'r newid cyfeiriad? Mewn gwirionedd, ble mae'r math o weithredu sy'n dangos bod y Llywodraeth yn ceisio ymdrin yn wirioneddol â'r argyfwng hwn? Oherwydd trafodaeth o hanner awr yn unig oedd hon am fod - hanner awr ynglŷn â'r hyn sy'n amlwg o fy ngohebiaethau i, ac, rwy'n siŵr, o rai pawb arall sydd yma, yr argyfwng iechyd mwyaf yn ddiamau, heblaw am COVID ei hun, wrth gwrs, a welsom ni. Yr hyn yr wyf i'n ei weld yw Gweinidog Llafur yn chwilio am rywun i'w feio am yr argyfwng yn hytrach nag awgrymu datrysiadau newydd. Mae hi'n ddigon digywilydd, a dweud y gwir, i weld bai ar y nyrsys, mae'n ymddangos, wrth ddweud bod eu gweithredu diwydiannol nhw wedi rhoi pwysau ychwanegol ar systemau, er bod y pwysau sydd arnyn nhw, ar y nyrsys a rhai eraill, ynghyd â degawd o wasgfa ar gyflogau, sydd wedi arwain at eu pleidlais nhw i streicio. Ac er fy mod i'n cytuno yn llwyr â'r Gweinidog ar yr anghyfiawnder yn sgil blynyddoedd o gyni'r Ceidwadwyr, mae'n rhaid iddi hi gydnabod mai ar Lywodraeth Cymru y mae'r bai am hyn. A yw'r Gweinidog yn cydnabod mai diffyg Llywodraeth Lafur Cymru o ran cefnogi staff yn arbennig felly sydd ar fai yn hyn o beth? Mae hi'n cyfeirio at ffigurau oedi wrth drosglwyddo i ofal fel rhywbeth sy'n achosi colli capasiti yn y system, ond ei gwaith hi yw creu'r capasiti hwnnw. Yr hyn sydd ei angen arnom ni yw cynllun mwy uchelgeisiol, a dweud y gwir, i gyflymu llif cleifion drwy'r system iechyd a gofal. Roedd hi'n sôn heddiw am greu 500 o welyau cymunedol ychwanegol. Mae hwnnw'n rhywbeth cadarnhaol, ond rydym ni wedi colli miloedd o welyau. Fe ysgrifennais i ati hi rai wythnosau yn ôl, gan ofyn am waith i'w wneud ynglŷn â'r posibilrwydd o sefydlu cyfleusterau cam-i-lawr cymunedol dros dro ar ddull a welsom ni gyda COVID. Fe ddywedodd y Prif Weinidog ddoe - braidd yn nawddoglyd, yn fy marn i - fod gan y rhai sy'n awgrymu hynny fwriadau da, ond mai diffyg staff yw'r broblem, nid diffyg gwelyau. Wel, (a), mae'r ddau beth yn wir, a (b), Llywodraeth Cymru sy'n gyfrifol am y ddau beth: niferoedd y gwelyau a niferoedd y gweithwyr. Ac, a dweud y gwir, mae'r cynllunio wedi bod yn druenus o ran y gweithlu, ynghyd â'r diffyg o ran ymgysylltu ystyrlon ar hyn o bryd i ddatrys yr anghydfodau diwydiannol, sy'n gwaethygu prinder staff. A yw'r Gweinidog yn cydnabod mai ar y Llywodraeth Lafur y mae'r bai am y methiant i ddatrys yr oedi wrth drosglwyddo i ofal?