English: Llywydd, I thank Mike Hedges. It was very good to be in Swansea with him at the start of this month, and a chance to put on record once again: congratulations to Matt Warren, who founded Veeqo less than 10 years ago, and has made it such an outstanding success. In his contribution at that ceremony, he focused on the quality-of-life advantages that come with living in the Swansea area, the quality of the workforce that he had been able to recruit - particularly the level of skills that had been developed from young people in universities here in Wales - and he focused on the quality of infrastructure now available in that part of Swansea. And it is a genuine boost to the region's growing tech sector that we've seen such a success in a company that now operates on that global scale. In terms of the second part of Mike Hedges's question, our universities undoubtedly face a series of headwinds when it comes to being able to invest in the sorts of new initiatives and skill development that led to Veeqo's success in Swansea. We know that we will not be able to replace for Swansea University the £135 million, which is the most conservative estimate of the benefits that they have derived from European funding in the last seven-year multi-annual framework. The UK Government has comprehensively failed to deliver the absolute guarantee that we were offered, that Wales would not be a penny worse off, and not only is the amount of money not available to Wales, but the people who benefited from it aren't able to benefit from it either. So, whereas, in Wales, the Welsh Government was able to benefit from that - that's how Business Wales has been developed; that's how the Development Bank of Wales has had some of its success - neither our universities, neither our private businesses, neither is the third sector able to take any advantage from the reduced funding that is available to us. And at the same time, Swansea University particularly has drawn attention to the failure of the UK Government to reach an agreement over participation in the next iteration of the Horizon programme. Wales drew down a far greater proportion of funding out of Horizon than we would have been entitled to on a population-share basis, and Swansea University itself secured €18 million of EU funding with 51 different Horizon projects over the 2014 to 2020 period. Now there's nothing. We don't have association with Horizon and we don't have certainty from the UK Government about any plan B successor programme, and it is no wonder that the university has issued the warning it has about redundancies and retrenchment in those very areas where the Veeqo development shows how success can be created.
Welsh: Llywydd, diolch i Mike Hedges. Roedd yn braf iawn bod yn Abertawe gydag ef ddechrau'r mis hwn, a chyfle i roi ar gof a chadw unwaith eto: llongyfarchiadau i Matt Warren, a sefydlodd Veeqo lai na 10 mlynedd yn ôl, ac sydd wedi ei wneud yn llwyddiant mor eithriadol. Yn ei gyfraniad yn y seremoni honno, canolbwyntiodd ar y manteision ansawdd bywyd a ddaw o fyw yn ardal Abertawe, ansawdd y gweithlu yr oedd wedi gallu ei recriwtio - yn enwedig lefel y sgiliau a ddatblygwyd gan bobl ifanc mewn prifysgolion yma yng Nghymru - a chanolbwyntiodd ar ansawdd y seilwaith sydd ar gael erbyn hyn yn y rhan honno o Abertawe. Ac mae'n hwb gwirioneddol i sector technoleg cynyddol y rhanbarth ein bod ni wedi gweld cymaint o lwyddiant mewn cwmni sydd bellach yn gweithredu ar y raddfa fyd-eang honno. O ran ail ran cwestiwn Mike Hedges, nid oes amheuaeth bod ein prifysgolion yn wynebu cyfres o flaenwyntoedd pan ddaw hi'n fater o allu buddsoddi yn y mathau o fentrau newydd a datblygiad sgiliau a arweiniodd at lwyddiant Veeqo yn Abertawe. Rydym ni'n gwybod na fyddwn ni'n gallu rhoi y £135 miliwn i Brifysgol Abertawe, yn lle, gyda'r amcangyfrif mwyaf ceidwadol, y buddion y maen nhw wedi eu cael o arian Ewropeaidd yn y fframwaith aml-flynyddol saith mlynedd diwethaf. Mae Llywodraeth y DU wedi methu'n llwyr â rhoi'r sicrwydd absoliwt a gynigwyd i ni, na fyddai Cymru yr un geiniog yn waeth ei byd, ac nid yn unig nad yw'r swm o arian ar gael i Gymru, ond nid yw'r bobl a wnaeth elwa arno yn gallu elwa arno chwaith. Felly, er, yng Nghymru, bod Llywodraeth Cymru wedi gallu elwa ar hynny - dyna sut datblygwyd Busnes Cymru; dyna sut mae Banc Datblygu Cymru wedi cael rhywfaint o'i lwyddiant - nid yw ein prifysgolion, ein busnesau preifat na'r trydydd sector yn gallu manteisio o gwbl ar y cyllid is sydd ar gael i ni. Ac ar yr un pryd, mae Prifysgol Abertawe yn arbennig wedi tynnu sylw at fethiant Llywodraeth y DU i ddod i gytundeb ynghylch cymryd rhan yn fersiwn nesaf rhaglen Horizon. Cafodd Gymru gyfran uwch o lawer o gyllid o Horizon na fyddai wedi bod gennym yr hawl iddo ar sail cyfran y boblogaeth, ac fe wnaeth Prifysgol Abertawe ei hun sicrhau €18 miliwn o gyllid UE gyda 51 o wahanol brosiectau Horizon dros gyfnod 2014 i 2020. Nawr does dim byd. Nid oes gennym ni gysylltiad â Horizon ac nid oes gennym ni unrhyw sicrwydd gan Lywodraeth y DU ynghylch unrhyw raglen olynol cynllun B, a does dim rhyfedd bod y brifysgol wedi datgan y rhybudd sydd ganddi am ddiswyddiadau a chwtogi yn yr union feysydd hynny lle mae datblygiad Veeqo yn dangos sut y gellir creu llwyddiant.