English: I want to focus, if I may, my comments on the plight of veterans' mental health services. It's an issue that is frequently raised in the cross-party group on the armed forces and cadets, and it's something that we actually visited earlier this week as well in our cross-party group meeting, at which Angela Burns was present. We all know that veterans don't just face stresses on their mental health from actually being in conflict and war zones, but they can actually face pressures during the transition back into civilian life post their service. So, it's really very essential that we have a health and social care system that meets their particular needs, because of course we know that if we don't meet their needs, then there could be a cycle of decline, which is significant and which actually costs the taxpayer much more money to resolve than had these issues been nipped in the bud in the first place: family breakdown, criminal justice system episodes, and - unfortunately, as is the case with the farming community, as we've also heard - people deciding to end their own lives. Now, the Welsh Government, I have to say, has to be commended for the establishment of Veterans' NHS Wales. It's something that we on these benches have continuously supported and championed over the years. We know that almost 3,000 veterans have used the service since it was established in 2010, and that the numbers of individuals accessing the service have increased year on year since it was started. Just last week, I visited the Cardiff and Vale hub of the service to meet with Dr Neil Kitchener, who of course supervises the service across Wales, and I saw, there, the tremendous work that's been going on with their 3MDR research, which is an immersive technology that gets veterans to confront the trauma that they have experienced in the past, in the hope that it will help to resolve that trauma and get them through it, and I know that the Cabinet Secretary has also been to visit - tremendous research, cutting-edge research, which is taking place here in Wales, and I want to trumpet that fact, because it's something we can all be very proud of. However, there are pressures within the Veterans' NHS Wales service that need to be addressed. One of the big problems that they've had in recent years is capacity, and the Cabinet Secretary is aware that there are variable waiting times across Wales for access to the service. In some places, the wait can be as short as eight weeks, which is obviously very, very good. In other places, it can be as long as 38 weeks, which is clearly unacceptable, at the moment. And, of course, those pressures have been relieved, to a certain extent, with an additional investment of £100,000, which recently came through from the Welsh Government, but I'm afraid it's insufficient still to meet the scale of the demand that's out there. So, the service itself reckons that it needs an additional £250,000 to provide peer mentoring support, which can be embedded as part of the service, which was traditionally there as a result of the Change Step service, which was a Wales-wide service, which was being run by CAIS, which is a charity that operates from my own constituency. And the peer mentoring support services at the moment are actually funded partly by Help for Heroes and partly, to their credit, by the Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board, which complements the Veterans' NHS Wales therapist service, which is available. So, for just £0.25 million per year, which is small beer in terms of the overall Wales-wide NHS budget, we can make a real difference to these veterans, and I do believe, Cabinet Secretary, that it's your will that we have the best service that we can possibly have for those veterans here in Wales, so I would sincerely ask that you review the funding arrangements for Veterans' NHS Wales to see whether you might be able to consider this £250,000, in addition to the resources that you've already pledged, so that that service can be a gold-standard service in a way that no other part of the UK actually has. I just want to close with a plug for Veterans Shed services as well. The very first veterans' shed - . People will be familiar with Men's Sheds services, but the very first veterans' shed was actually established in my own constituency in Llanddulas, and I'm very proud of that fact. They also are doing, at a very much lower level, but they're building resilience in the veteran community when they are facing challenges after returning to civilian life. So, I want to plug them and Martin Margerison, the gentleman who started that in my own constituency. I feel that we need more of those veterans' sheds across Wales, and I want to commend the Government for the work it's doing on NHS veterans, but I do think that we need to more.
Welsh: Rwyf am ganolbwyntio fy sylwadau, os caf, ar gyflwr gwasanaethau iechyd meddwl i gyn-filwyr. Mae'n fater sy'n cael sylw'n aml yn y grŵp trawsbleidiol ar y lluoedd arfog a'r cadetiaid, ac mae'n rhywbeth yr edrychwyd arno yn gynharach yr wythnos hon hefyd yn ein cyfarfod grŵp trawsbleidiol, lle roedd Angela Burns yn bresennol. Mae pawb ohonom yn gwybod nad yn unig pan fyddant mewn ardaloedd lle y ceir gwrthdaro a rhyfel y bydd cyn-filwyr yn wynebu straen ar eu hiechyd meddwl, ac y gallant wynebu pwysau mewn gwirionedd yn ystod y cyfnod pontio yn ôl i fywyd fel sifiliaid ar ôl iddynt gwblhau eu gwasanaeth. Felly, mae'n hanfodol mewn gwirionedd fod gennym system iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol sy'n diwallu eu hanghenion arbennig, oherwydd fe wyddom wrth gwrs os nad ydym yn diwallu eu hanghenion, gallai fod cylch o ddirywiad, sy'n sylweddol ac a allai gostio llawer iawn mwy o arian i'r trethdalwr ei ddatrys na phe bai'r problemau hyn wedi cael eu datrys yn fuan: chwalfa deuluol, episodau o fewn y system cyfiawnder troseddol, ac - yn anffodus, fel sy'n wir am y gymuned ffermio, fel y clywsom - pobl yn penderfynu rhoi diwedd ar eu bywydau eu hunain. Nawr, rhaid canmol Llywodraeth Cymru, rhaid i mi ddweud, am sefydlu GIG Cymru i gyn-filwyr. Mae'n rhywbeth rydym ni ar y meinciau hyn wedi ei gefnogi a'i hyrwyddo'n barhaus dros y blynyddoedd. Gwyddom fod bron i 3,000 o gyn-filwyr wedi defnyddio'r gwasanaeth ers ei sefydlu yn 2010, a bod nifer yr unigolion sy'n defnyddio'r gwasanaeth wedi cynyddu flwyddyn ar ôl blwyddyn ers iddo ddechrau. Yr wythnos diwethaf, ymwelais â hyb Caerdydd a'r Fro o'r gwasanaeth i gyfarfod â Dr Neil Kitchener, sydd wrth gwrs yn goruchwylio'r gwasanaeth ledled Cymru, ac yno, gwelais y gwaith aruthrol sydd wedi bod yn digwydd gyda'u hymchwil 3MDR, sef technoleg drochi sy'n cael cyn-filwyr i wynebu'r trawma y maent wedi'i ddioddef yn y gorffennol, yn y gobaith y bydd yn helpu i ddatrys y trawma hwnnw a'u cael drwyddo, a gwn fod Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet hefyd wedi ymweld â - gwaith ymchwil aruthrol, ymchwil arloesol, sy'n digwydd yma yng Nghymru, ac rwyf am ddatgan y ffaith honno, oherwydd mae'n rhywbeth y gallwn oll fod yn falch iawn ohono. Fodd bynnag, ceir pwysau o fewn gwasanaeth GIG Cymru i gyn-filwyr sydd angen sylw. Un o'r problemau mawr a gawsant yn ystod y blynyddoedd diwethaf yw capasiti, ac mae Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet yn ymwybodol fod yna amseroedd aros amrywiol ledled Cymru i gael mynediad at y gwasanaeth. Mewn rhai mannau, gall yr amser aros fod cyn lleied ag wyth wythnos, sy'n amlwg yn dda iawn. Mewn mannau eraill, gall fod mor hir â 38 wythnos, sy'n amlwg yn annerbyniol, ar hyn o bryd. Ac wrth gwrs, mae'r pwysau hynny wedi llacio i ryw raddau o ganlyniad i'r buddsoddiad ychwanegol o £100,000 a ddaeth yn ddiweddar gan Lywodraeth Cymru, ond mae arnaf ofn ei fod yn dal yn annigonol i ateb maint y galw. Felly, cred y gwasanaeth ei hun fod angen £250,000 ychwanegol i ddarparu cymorth mentora cyfoedion, y gellir ei gynnwys yn rhan o'r gwasanaeth, cymorth a oedd yno'n draddodiadol o ganlyniad i'r gwasanaeth Newid Cam, gwasanaeth ar gyfer Cymru gyfan a gâi ei redeg gan CAIS, sef elusen sy'n gweithredu o fy etholaeth. Ac ariennir y gwasanaethau mentora cyfoedion ar hyn o bryd yn rhannol gan Help for Heroes ac yn rhannol, er clod iddynt, gan fwrdd iechyd lleol prifysgol Betsi Cadwaladr, sy'n ategu gwasanaeth therapi GIG Cymru i gyn-filwyr sydd ar gael. Felly, am £0.25 miliwn y flwyddyn yn unig, sy'n arian bach o ran cyllideb gyffredinol y GIG ledled Cymru, gallwn wneud gwahaniaeth go iawn i'r cyn-filwyr hyn, a chredaf, Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet, y byddech yn dymuno i ni gael y gwasanaeth gorau y gallwn ei gael ar gyfer y cyn-filwyr hyn yng Nghymru, felly hoffwn ofyn o ddifrif i chi adolygu'r trefniadau cyllido ar gyfer GIG Cymru i gyn-filwyr i weld a allech ystyried y £250,000, yn ychwanegol at yr adnoddau rydych eisoes wedi eu haddo, fel y gall y gwasanaeth fod o'r safon orau mewn ffordd nad oes unrhyw ran arall o'r DU yn ei wneud mewn gwirionedd. Hoffwn orffen drwy ddatgan cefnogaeth i wasanaethau Siediau Cyn-filwyr yn ogystal. Cafodd y Sied Cyn-filwyr gyntaf - . Bydd pobl yn gyfarwydd â gwasanaethau Siediau Dynion, ond sefydlwyd y sied gyntaf i gyn-filwyr yn fy etholaeth i yn Llanddulas, ac rwy'n falch iawn o'r ffaith honno. Hefyd maent yn gwneud, ar lefel is o lawer, ond maent yn adeiladu gwytnwch yng nghymuned y cyn-filwyr pan fyddant yn wynebu heriau ar ôl dychwelyd i fywyd sifil. Felly, rwyf am ddatgan cefnogaeth iddynt hwy a Martin Margerison, y gŵr a ddechreuodd hynny yn fy etholaeth. Rwy'n teimlo bod angen mwy o'r siediau hynny i gyn-filwyr ar draws Cymru, ac rwyf am ganmol y Llywodraeth am y gwaith y mae'n ei wneud ar GIG Cymru i gyn-filwyr, ond credaf fod angen inni wneud mwy.