English: My first speech I made in this Chamber in 2016 was on housing, and I fear I'm going to make exactly the same speech again. But I'm not, actually - that's not quite true. I've checked the Record, and it is going to be different, although I often check the Record to find out what I've just said when I speak in the Chamber anyway. One of the things that a veteran Member came up to me and said after that speech was, 'Please make sure you're not making the same speech in the next Senedd term should you be re-elected.' That was David Melding. I felt David Melding often brought a lot of common sense to this debate, and perhaps a less partisan approach than is being taken by Janet Finch-Saunders today, who is brilliant in her way, but is not afraid to engage in those kinds of party political attacks. Let's take that comparison with England, then. Oliver Letwin, the Conservative MP, undertook a piece of work for the UK Government into house building, which he published in 2019. He said in his report that house builders protect profits by constructing homes at a pace that matches the market's capacity to absorb these homes at prices determined by reference to the local second-hand market. That means that as prices rise, so house building slows. That is one of the problems, and this is why Oliver Letwin said house building happens at a stately pace. It's not to do with not allowing the free market to function, as has been suggested by some of the Conservative Members; it is to do with the fact that the free market is flawed. That is where the problem lies - the fact that the free market must have very strong interventions in order to deliver the housing that we need. What I spoke about in 2016 was the fact that Caerphilly had had a local development plan that was published and ready to go and then was flatly rejected by the community who lived in the north of Caerphilly. I had 35 per cent of the share of the vote at my election in 2016. I'm glad to say it went up by 10 per cent this time around. But one of the reasons I did so badly is that I was attacked by all parties, including Conservatives, because of the local development plan that Caerphilly had produced to meet housing demand. The problem with the local development plan is it focused all the development, all the housing, in the south of the constituency bordering Cardiff North. What that housing did is it took pressure off Cardiff and brought the housing that would be relatively cheap to Cardiff citizens to the south of Caerphilly. It was deeply unpopular. It met housing demand for Cardiff; it didn't meet housing demand for Caerphilly. Nothing in that plan you could say was affordable. If you let the free market do its job, you get more of that. You get more of that. You get the Redrows, the Persimmons, the Barratts throwing up their houses and getting out of there as fast as they can.
Welsh: Roedd yr araith gyntaf a wneuthum yn y Siambr hon yn 2016 yn ymwneud â thai, ac mae arnaf ofn fy mod yn mynd i wneud yn union yr un araith eto. Ond nid wyf am wneud hynny mewn gwirionedd - nid yw hynny'n hollol wir. Rwyf wedi edrych ar y Cofnod, ac mae'n mynd i fod yn wahanol, er fy mod yn aml yn edrych ar y Cofnod i weld beth a ddywedais wedi imi siarad yn y Siambr beth bynnag. Un o'r pethau a ddywedodd un o'r hen Aelodau wrthyf ar ôl yr araith honno oedd, 'Gwnewch yn siŵr na fyddwch yn gwneud yr un araith yn nhymor nesaf y Senedd os cewch eich ailethol.' David Melding oedd hwnnw. Teimlwn fod David Melding yn aml yn dod â llawer o synnwyr cyffredin i'r ddadl hon, ac ymagwedd lai pleidiol na'r un a welir gan Janet Finch-Saunders heddiw efallai, sy'n wych yn ei ffordd, ond nad oes arni ofn cymryd rhan yn y mathau hynny o ymosodiadau pleidiol wleidyddol. Gadewch inni edrych ar y gymhariaeth â Lloegr, felly. Gwnaeth Oliver Letwin, yr AS Ceidwadol, waith i Lywodraeth y DU ar adeiladu tai, gwaith a gyhoeddodd yn 2019. Dywedodd yn ei adroddiad fod adeiladwyr tai yn diogelu elw drwy adeiladu cartrefi ar gyflymder sy'n cyfateb i allu'r farchnad i amsugno'r cartrefi hyn am brisiau a bennir drwy gyfeirio at y farchnad ail law leol. Mae hynny'n golygu, wrth i brisiau godi, felly hefyd y mae adeiladu tai'n arafu. Dyna un o'r problemau, a dyna pam y dywedodd Oliver Letwin fod adeiladu tai'n digwydd ar gyflymder araf. Nid yw'n ymwneud â pheidio â chaniatáu i'r farchnad rydd weithredu, fel yr awgrymwyd gan rai o'r Aelodau Ceidwadol; mae'n ymwneud â'r ffaith bod y farchnad rydd yn ddiffygiol. Dyna lle mae'r broblem - y ffaith bod yn rhaid ymyrryd yn gadarn iawn yn y farchnad rydd er mwyn iddi ddarparu'r tai sydd eu hangen arnom. Yr hyn y soniais amdano yn 2016 oedd bod gan Gaerffili gynllun datblygu lleol a oedd wedi'i gyhoeddi ac yn barod i fynd a'i fod wedi ei wrthod yn llwyr wedyn gan y gymuned a oedd yn byw yng ngogledd Caerffili. Cefais 35 y cant o gyfran o'r bleidlais wrth gael fy ethol yn 2016. Rwy'n falch o ddweud iddo godi 10 y cant y tro hwn. Ond un o'r rhesymau pam y gwneuthum mor wael oedd bod pob plaid, gan gynnwys y Ceidwadwyr, wedi ymosod arnaf oherwydd y cynllun datblygu lleol roedd Caerffili wedi'i gynhyrchu i ateb y galw am dai. Y broblem gyda'r cynllun datblygu lleol yw ei fod yn canolbwyntio'r holl ddatblygiad, yr holl dai, yn ne'r etholaeth sy'n ffinio â Gogledd Caerdydd. Yr hyn a wnaeth y tai hynny oedd tynnu pwysau oddi ar Gaerdydd a dod â'r tai a fyddai'n gymharol rad i ddinasyddion Caerdydd i'r de o Gaerffili. Roedd yn amhoblogaidd iawn. Roedd yn ateb y galw am dai yng Nghaerdydd; nid oedd yn ateb y galw am dai yng Nghaerffili. Nid oedd unrhyw beth yn y cynllun hwnnw y gallech ddweud ei fod yn fforddiadwy. Os gadewch i'r farchnad rydd wneud ei gwaith, fe gewch fwy o hynny. Fe gewch fwy o hynny. Fe gewch y Redrows, y Persimmons, y Barratts yn codi tai'n sydyn ac yn diflannu oddi yno mor gyflym ag y gallant.