English: Well, Llywydd, I thank Angela Burns for those important questions. I share many of her concerns. A military camp is not a suitable place to house people who have fled from conflict and war in other parts of the world. I wrote to the Home Secretary on Friday of last week. I received a reply on Monday, so it was a very swift reply. It wasn't from the Home Secretary though; it was from a junior Minister in the department. In my letter, I asked very specifically for a two-week delay in the plan to house asylum seekers in Penally, in order that proper planning and proper services could be put in place. And I don't think anybody could argue that that has been done in a satisfactory way. Unfortunately, the reply declined that request. I asked in my letter to the Home Secretary for specific assurances that funding would be provided to the local authority and to the local health board. We're talking about relatively small, rural authorities who have no capacity to deal, from their own resources, with the demands that will now be placed upon them. Here was the reply: 'The Home Office will not provide additional funding in connection with any of the accommodation that is provided for asylum seekers'. So, an utter blanket refusal to provide any additional funds, either for Pembrokeshire County Council or for Hywel Dda University Health Board. And the letter went on to say that work on an agreed communications plan is in progress. Well, really, that is nonsensical, isn't it? 'Communications plan is in progress', when there are hundreds of people protesting already in Tenby over the weekend, and the ugly scenes that the Member referred to yesterday. The Home Office did not put out a single line to reassure the local population, to explain why they are doing what they are doing. Now, I want to endorse very much what Angela Burns said - Wales is a nation of sanctuary. When there are people who, through no decision of their own, arrive in Wales, then we want to make sure that they are well looked after and welcomed. The way in which the Home Office has gone about its decision in relation to Penally makes all of that far more difficult than it needed to have been. And while we will take part in any of the conversations and any of the groups that are set up to try to improve the position, the general approach needs rapidly to improve in order to avoid a repetition of the scenes that we saw last night, and to make sure that the people who will be housed in that camp are able to be properly looked after, and the concerns - the legitimate concerns - of that local community that deserve to be properly addressed, can be communicated to them, and to draw them into the process rather than them simply being spectators of it.
Welsh: Wel, Llywydd, diolchaf i Angela Burns am y cwestiynau pwysig yna. Rwy'n rhannu llawer o'i phryderon. Nid yw gwersyll milwrol yn lle addas i gartrefu pobl sydd wedi dianc o wrthdaro a rhyfel mewn rhannau eraill o'r byd. Ysgrifennais at yr Ysgrifennydd Cartref ddydd Gwener yr wythnos diwethaf. Cefais ateb ddydd Llun, felly roedd yn ateb cyflym iawn. Ond nid oedd oddi wrth yr Ysgrifennydd Cartref; roedd oddi wrth Weinidog iau yn yr adran. Yn fy llythyr, gofynnais yn benodol iawn am oedi o bythefnos yn y cynllun i gartrefu ceiswyr lloches ym Mhenalun, er mwyn gallu cynllunio yn briodol a rhoi gwasanaethau priodol ar waith. Ac nid wyf i'n credu y gallai unrhyw un ddadlau bod hynny wedi ei wneud mewn ffordd foddhaol. Yn anffodus, gwrthododd yr ateb y cais hwnnw. Gofynnais yn fy llythyr at yr Ysgrifennydd Cartref am sicrwydd penodol y byddai cyllid yn cael ei ddarparu i'r awdurdod lleol ac i'r bwrdd iechyd lleol. Rydym ni'n sôn am awdurdodau cymharol fach, gwledig nad yw'r capasiti ganddyn nhw i ymdopi, o'u hadnoddau eu hunain, â'r galwadau a fydd yn cael eu rhoi arnyn nhw nawr. Dyma'r ateb: Ni fydd y Swyddfa Gartref yn darparu cyllid ychwanegol mewn cysylltiad ag unrhyw ran o'r llety a ddarperir ar gyfer ceiswyr lloches. Felly, gwrthodiad cyffredinol llwyr i ddarparu unrhyw arian ychwanegol, naill ai i Gyngor Sir Penfro nac i Fwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Hywel Dda. Ac aeth y llythyr ymlaen i ddweud bod gwaith ar gynllun cyfathrebu y cytunwyd arno ar y gweill. Wel, mewn gwirionedd, mae hynny'n nonsens, onid yw? 'Mae cynllun cyfathrebu ar y gweill', pan fo cannoedd o bobl eisoes yn protestio yn Ninbych-y-pysgod dros y penwythnos, a'r golygfeydd annymunol y cyfeiriodd yr Aelod atyn nhw ddoe. Ni roddodd y Swyddfa Gartref yr un llinell i dawelu meddyliau'r boblogaeth leol, i esbonio pam maen nhw'n gwneud yr hyn y maen nhw'n ei wneud. Nawr, hoffwn ategu yn llwyr yr hyn a ddywedodd Angela Burns - mae Cymru yn genedl noddfa. Pan fo pobl yn cyrraedd Cymru, nid trwy unrhyw benderfyniad ganddyn nhw eu hunain, yna rydym ni eisiau gwneud yn siŵr eu bod nhw'n derbyn gofal da ac yn cael eu croesawu. Mae'r ffordd y mae'r Swyddfa Gartref wedi mynd ati i wneud ei phenderfyniad o ran Penalun yn gwneud hynny i gyd yn llawer anoddach nag yr oedd angen iddo fod. Ac er y byddwn ni'n cymryd rhan mewn unrhyw un o'r sgyrsiau ac unrhyw un o'r grwpiau a sefydlir i geisio gwella'r sefyllfa, mae angen gwella'r dull cyffredinol yn gyflym er mwyn osgoi ailadrodd y golygfeydd a welsom ni neithiwr, ac i wneud yn siŵr bod y bobl a fydd yn cael eu cartrefu yn y gwersyll hwnnw yn gallu derbyn gofal priodol, ac y gellir cyfleu pryderon - pryderon dilys - y gymuned leol honno sy'n haeddu cael sylw priodol, iddyn nhw, a'u tynnu i mewn i'r broses yn hytrach na gadael iddyn nhw ei gwylio o'r tu allan.