English: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and can I also start with a tribute to you? As a neighbouring constituency Member of the Senedd, I've seen first-hand just how hard you work for your constituents, and it will be a great loss to them when you step down. You're tenacious; you're a great political campaigner. In fact, you and I have gotten into trouble with our own parties for campaigning sometimes for issues on the same side of the argument, but it's been a pleasure to work with you, and you've been a superb travelling companion as well on many a journey up and down on the train between north and south Wales. Can I turn to the subject of this debate, the Labour Party's failures over the past 20 years? I thought the Minister tried to do a decent job of it, but it's very difficult to do a decent job of it when you've got such an atrocious record in Government. For the past 20 years, the Labour Party and their little helpers in Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats have absolutely ruined large parts of Wales's public services and our economy. We have seen, of course, those failures, which are very evident still, in our national health service, in spite of the tremendous work that they've done in responding to the pandemic. We have a national health service that was in crisis prior to March of last year. A recruitment crisis still exists in our national health service - something that you guys have been responsible for for over 20 years. We know that waiting times are absolutely out of control; we know that target times for people getting in and out of our emergency departments have never been met; and, of course, I want to remind you and those people watching this debate that, yet again, the Welsh Labour Government is the only Government ever in the history of the United Kingdom that's cut an NHS budget - something that I don't think is a very proud record to be standing on. And then, of course, there's Betsi, in my own backyard, languishing in special measures for the longest time of any NHS organisation in history and still with problems that are yet to be resolved. If you look at education, people have already made reference to the fact that Wales has the worst performing education system in the whole of the United Kingdom, as far as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Programme for International Student Assessment tests are concerned. And it's not only the worst in the United Kingdom, it's the only nation in the United Kingdom that is in the bottom half of the OECD league tables - that's not a record to be proud of. And it's not surprising, really, given the funding gap per pupil between England and Wales that your Government has presided over. And then, on our economy, we do have a Minister - I know he hates being reminded of this, but we do have a Minister in the economy department who said that the Welsh Government didn't have a clue what it was doing when it came to the economy, and he was absolutely right. I can see him holding his head in his hands, and he's absolutely right to do that. We despair along with you, Lee Waters, at the state of our economy here in Wales after two decades and more of Labour -
Welsh: Diolch, Ddirprwy Lywydd, ac a gaf fi hefyd ddechrau gyda theyrnged i chi? Fel Aelod o'r Senedd etholaeth gyfagos, rwyf wedi gweld drosof fy hun pa mor galed rydych chi'n gweithio ar ran eich etholwyr, a bydd yn golled fawr iddynt pan fyddwch yn rhoi'r gorau iddi. Rydych chi'n ddygn; rydych chi'n ymgyrchydd gwleidyddol gwych. Yn wir, rydych chi a minnau wedi mynd i drafferthion gyda'n pleidiau ein hunain am ymgyrchu weithiau dros faterion ar yr un ochr i'r ddadl, ond mae wedi bod yn bleser gweithio gyda chi, ac rydych chi wedi bod yn gydymaith teithio gwych hefyd ar sawl taith i fyny ac i lawr ar y trên rhwng gogledd a de Cymru. A gaf fi droi at bwnc y ddadl hon, sef methiannau'r Blaid Lafur dros yr 20 mlynedd diwethaf? Roeddwn i'n meddwl bod y Gweinidog wedi ceisio gwneud gwaith da ohono, ond mae'n anodd iawn gwneud gwaith teilwng ohono pan fydd eich cyflawniad fel Llywodraeth mor erchyll. Dros yr 20 mlynedd diwethaf, mae'r Blaid Lafur a'u cynorthwywyr bach ym Mhlaid Cymru a'r Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol wedi difetha rhannau helaeth o wasanaethau cyhoeddus Cymru a'n heconomi. Rydym wedi gweld y methiannau sy'n amlwg iawn o hyd wrth gwrs yn ein gwasanaeth iechyd gwladol, er gwaethaf y gwaith aruthrol y maent wedi'i wneud yn ymateb i'r pandemig. Mae gennym wasanaeth iechyd gwladol a oedd mewn argyfwng cyn mis Mawrth y llynedd. Mae argyfwng recriwtio yn dal i fodoli yn ein gwasanaeth iechyd gwladol - rhywbeth rydych chi wedi bod yn gyfrifol amdano ers dros 20 mlynedd. Gwyddom fod amseroedd aros allan o reolaeth yn llwyr; gwyddom nad yw amseroedd targed ar gyfer pobl sy'n mynd i mewn ac allan o'n hadrannau achosion brys erioed wedi'u cyrraedd; ac wrth gwrs, hoffwn eich atgoffa chi a'r bobl sy'n gwylio'r ddadl hon mai Llywodraeth Lafur Cymru, unwaith eto, yw'r unig Lywodraeth erioed yn hanes y Deyrnas Unedig sydd wedi torri cyllideb y GIG - rhywbeth nad wyf yn credu ei fod yn gyflawniad y gallwch fod yn falch iawn ohono. Ac yna, wrth gwrs, mae Betsi Cadwaladr, yn fy iard gefn fy hun, wedi bod yn dihoeni mewn mesurau arbennig am fwy o amser nag unrhyw sefydliad GIG mewn hanes ac mae'n dal i fod â phroblemau sydd eto i'w datrys. Os edrychwch ar addysg, mae pobl eisoes wedi cyfeirio at y ffaith mai gan Gymru y mae'r system addysg sy'n perfformio waethaf yn y Deyrnas Unedig gyfan ar brofion Rhaglen Ryngwladol Asesu Myfyrwyr y Sefydliad ar gyfer Cydweithrediad a Datblygiad Economaidd. Ac nid dim ond y gwaethaf yn y Deyrnas Unedig, dyma'r unig genedl yn y Deyrnas Unedig sydd yn hanner isaf tablau cynghrair y Sefydliad ar gyfer Cydweithrediad a Datblygiad Economaidd - nid yw hwnnw'n gyflawniad i ymfalchïo ynddo. Ac nid yw'n syndod, mewn gwirionedd, o ystyried y bwlch cyllido fesul disgybl rhwng Cymru a Lloegr dan oruchwyliaeth eich Llywodraeth chi. Ac ar ein heconomi wedyn, mae gennym Weinidog - gwn ei fod yn casáu cael ei atgoffa o hyn, ond mae gennym Weinidog yn adran yr economi a ddywedodd nad oedd gan Lywodraeth Cymru syniad beth oedd yn ei wneud ar yr economi, ac roedd yn llygad ei le. Gallaf ei weld yn dal ei ben yn ei ddwylo, ac mae'n iawn iddo wneud hynny. Rydym yn anobeithio gyda chi, Lee Waters, ynglŷn â chyflwr ein heconomi yma yng Nghymru ar ôl dau ddegawd a mwy o Lafur -