English: Well, Llywydd, I thank Ken Skates for that, and I agree with him very much that the best help you can offer, particularly to young people, in the mental health field is that early and preventative intervention that gets them the advice they need. It allows them to meet with a trusted adult who has the training that is necessary to respond to their needs, and that's exactly what the Welsh Government is doing. Over the next three years, we'll invest another £10 million over and above what is there now to improve and expand school counselling provision, and we do so because we know that it is effective. In the last year for which there are figures, 10,600 children or young people received counselling services in schools. Young women accounted for two thirds of those receiving help. Twenty per cent of all the children who got help from the school counselling service were in year 10, so facing examinations, with all the anxiety that we know goes alongside that. But, critically, 87 per cent of children and young people who used the service did not require onward referral. In other words, the help that they got was sufficient to meet their needs. That's why, both for children and for adults, we are putting such an emphasis on investment in tier 0 and tier 1 services - services that you don't need to join a waiting list to get to, services that you can get by immediate access, either through third sector organisations or, in the case of the question raised by Ken Skates, through the self-referral of someone to a school counselling service. If you can do it, if you can do it early and do it effectively, then those young people don't need the more intensive and, inevitably, more pressurised services further up the chain.
Welsh: Wel, Llywydd, diolch i Ken Skates am hynna, ac rwy'n cytuno'n llwyr ag ef mai'r cymorth gorau y gallwch ei gynnig, yn enwedig i bobl ifanc, ym maes iechyd meddwl yw'r ymyrraeth gynnar ac ataliol hwnnw sy'n rhoi iddyn nhw y cyngor sydd ei angen arnyn nhw. Mae'n caniatáu iddyn nhw gyfarfod ag oedolyn y gallan nhw ymddiried ynddo sydd â'r hyfforddiant sy'n angenrheidiol i ymateb i'w hanghenion, a dyna'n union y mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn ei wneud. Dros y tair blynedd nesaf, byddwn yn buddsoddi £10 miliwn arall yn ychwanegol at yr hyn sydd yno nawr i wella ac ehangu'r ddarpariaeth gwnsela mewn ysgolion, a gwnawn hynny oherwydd gwyddom ei fod yn effeithiol. Yn ystod y flwyddyn ddiwethaf y ceir ffigurau ar ei chyfer, cafodd 10,600 o blant neu bobl ifanc wasanaethau cwnsela mewn ysgolion. Roedd menywod ifanc yn cyfrif am ddwy ran o dair o'r rhai a oedd yn cael cymorth. Yr oedd 20 y cant o'r holl blant a gafodd gymorth gan y gwasanaeth cwnsela mewn ysgolion ym mlwyddyn 10, felly'n wynebu arholiadau, gyda'r holl bryder y gwyddom ei fod yn cyd-fynd â hynny. Ond, yn hollbwysig, nid oedd angen atgyfeirio 87 y cant o'r plant a'r bobl ifanc a oedd yn defnyddio'r gwasanaeth. Mewn geiriau eraill, roedd y cymorth a gawsant yn ddigonol i ddiwallu eu hanghenion. Dyna pam, i blant ac i oedolion, yr ydym yn rhoi cymaint o bwyslais ar fuddsoddi mewn gwasanaethau haen 0 a haen 1 - gwasanaethau nad oes angen ichi ymuno â rhestr aros er mwyn eu cael, gwasanaethau y gallwch eu cael ar unwaith, naill ai drwy sefydliadau'r trydydd sector neu, yn achos y cwestiwn a godwyd gan Ken Skates, drwy rywun yn hunangyfeirio at wasanaeth cwnsela mewn ysgolion. Os gallwch wneud hynny, os gallwch ei wneud yn gynnar a'i wneud yn effeithiol, yna nid oes angen y gwasanaethau mwy dwys ac, yn anochel, sydd o dan fwy o bwysau ar y bobl ifanc hynny ymhellach i fyny'r gadwyn.