English: Llywydd, I've been trying, in preparing for something to say today, to think myself back to 1999, and, as I look around the gallery, it seems an even more daunting task to try to recall the things that were important to us then. And 20 years into devolution, this is inevitably a moment for reflection on our shared history. What I'm intending to do is, by reflecting on matters from the perspective of 1999, to try and identify some of those things that I think we would have been pleasantly surprised at if we'd known then what was to happen over those 20 years. But I'll think as well about those things that we would have been disappointed at over the 20-year history and, finally, to look ahead to some new challenges, and especially challenges that I think we might not have anticipated 20 years ago having to face in the Wales of today. And, Llywydd, because some of us are 20 years older as well, I am going to offer five reflections in each of those three categories, mostly because it helps me to remember them, but partly because I hope it's easier to follow some of this as well. I'm going to begin, if I could, with just one personal observation. I arrived here at the National Assembly before the first year of devolution was at an end, and it's easy to forget just how rocky that start had been - the closeness of the referendum result and the election in 1999 of an uncertain minority administration. By the time I arrived here, three of the four party leaders who had started that first year of devolution had already been replaced. One had been defeated on the floor of the Assembly, one had been deposed in a palace coup and one was appearing before Kingston Crown Court - [ Laughter.] - in a trial involving, as I recall, a pizza and for allegedly wanting to spend more time with other people's families than his own.
Welsh: Llywydd, rwyf wedi bod yn ceisio, wrth baratoi rhywbeth i'w ddweud heddiw, dwyn i gof 1999, ac wrth imi edrych o gwmpas yr oriel, mae'n ymddangos yn dasg anos fyth i geisio cofio'r pethau a oedd yn bwysig inni bryd hynny. Ac ar ôl 20 mlynedd o ddatganoli, mae hyn, yn anochel, yn ennyd i fyfyrio ar ein hanes cyffredin. Yr hyn yr wyf yn bwriadu ei wneud yw, drwy fyfyrio ar faterion o safbwynt 1999, ceisio nodi rhai o'r pethau hynny y credaf y byddem ni wedi cael ein siomi ar yr ochr orau ynddyn nhw pe baem ni'n gwybod bryd hynny beth a oedd yn mynd i ddigwydd dros yr 20 mlynedd hynny. Ond byddaf yn meddwl hefyd am y pethau hynny y byddem ni wedi bod yn siomedig yn eu cylch dros yr 20 mlynedd diwethaf ac, yn olaf, yn edrych ymlaen at rai heriau newydd, ac yn arbennig heriau y credaf na fyddem ni efallai wedi rhagweld 20 mlynedd yn ôl y byddai'n rhaid inni eu hwynebu yn y Gymru gyfoes. A, Llywydd, gan fod rhai ohonom ni 20 mlynedd yn hŷn hefyd, rwy'n mynd i gynnig pum myfyrdod ym mhob un o'r tri chategori hynny, yn bennaf oherwydd y byddan nhw'n fy helpu i'w cofio nhw, ond yn rhannol oherwydd fy mod i'n gobeithio y bydd hi'n haws dilyn rhywfaint o hyn hefyd. Rwyf am ddechrau os caf i, gydag un arsylwad personol yn unig. Cyrhaeddais yma yn y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol cyn i flwyddyn gyntaf datganoli ddod i ben, ac mae'n hawdd anghofio pa mor sigledig yn wir oedd y cychwyn hwnnw - canlyniad agos y refferendwm ac ethol yn 1999 gweinyddiaeth leiafrifol ansicr. Erbyn i mi gyrraedd yma, roedd tri o'r pedwar arweinydd plaid a oedd wedi dechrau yn y flwyddyn gyntaf honno o ddatganoli eisoes wedi eu disodli. Roedd un wedi ei drechu ar lawr y Cynulliad, roedd un wedi ei ddisodli gan gyd-Aelodau ac roedd un yn ymddangos gerbron llys y Goron Kingston - [ chwerthin.] - mewn achos yn cynnwys, fel y cofiaf, pizza ac, yn ôl y sôn, eisiau treulio mwy o amser gyda theuluoedd pobl eraill na'i deulu ei hun.