English: Thank you, Llywydd. I want to thank Mark Isherwood for bringing this important debate to the Chamber and to Dawn Bowden and Rhun ap Iorwerth for their contributions that I have listened to. And I recognise the stories that each of them have told about the direct impact that children's hospices have, not just on the children, but on their wider families and carers as well. I recognise, and I should say, Llywydd, that one of the children's hospices is actually in my constituency. Tŷ Hafan hospice is in Sully, at the southern end of Cardiff South and Penarth. So, before my time as Minister in the Government, I already had some understanding of the incredibly important services that hospices provide to both end-of-life care, but more than that, as I said, the support they provide to patients, families and carers. My understanding is that every year our children's hospices support around 500 children and young people with life-limiting conditions here in Wales, and that balance of end-of-life and continuing care to children and young people who have care needs arising from life-limiting conditions often takes place over many years. I also do want to acknowledge the invaluable help and advice that our children's hospices provide to families to manage their child's pain and distressing symptoms, but also, as Members have said, the short breaks they're able to offer families, the compassionate end-of-life care support and the emotional support up to and beyond the death of a child. Research does show that the overall number of children and young people with life-limiting conditions has grown, and modelling suggests that those numbers will continue to increase slightly year on year over the next decade. That's partly because life expectancy is increasing, with people living longer due to advances in medical treatments and technologies. As a result, more young people are moving from children's to adult services, and that's been a challenge for those children's hospices, as people they've known for a long time, in managing that transition in their care.
Welsh: Diolch, Lywydd. Hoffwn ddiolch i Mark Isherwood am gyflwyno'r ddadl bwysig hon i'r Siambr ac i Dawn Bowden a Rhun ap Iorwerth am y cyfraniadau y gwrandewais arnynt. Ac rwy'n cydnabod y straeon y mae pob un ohonynt wedi'u hadrodd am yr effaith uniongyrchol y mae hosbisau plant yn ei chael, nid yn unig ar y plant, ond ar eu teuluoedd ehangach a'u gofalwyr hefyd. Rwy'n cydnabod, a dylwn ddweud, Lywydd, fod un o'r hosbisau plant yn fy etholaeth i mewn gwirionedd. Mae hosbis Tŷ Hafan yn Sili, ym mhen deheuol De Caerdydd a Phenarth. Felly, cyn fy amser fel Gweinidog yn y Llywodraeth, roedd gennyf rywfaint o ddealltwriaeth eisoes o'r gwasanaethau eithriadol o bwysig y mae hosbisau'n eu darparu ar gyfer gofal diwedd oes, ond yn fwy na hynny, fel y dywedais, y cymorth y maent yn ei ddarparu i gleifion, teuluoedd a gofalwyr. Yn ôl yr hyn a ddeallaf, bob blwyddyn, mae ein hosbisau plant yn cefnogi tua 500 o blant a phobl ifanc sydd â chyflyrau sy'n cyfyngu ar fywyd yma yng Nghymru, ac mae'r cydbwysedd hwnnw o ofal diwedd oes a gofal parhaus i blant a phobl ifanc sydd ag anghenion gofal yn deillio o gyflyrau sy'n cyfyngu ar fywyd yn aml yn digwydd dros nifer o flynyddoedd. Rwyf hefyd am gydnabod y cymorth a'r cyngor amhrisiadwy y mae ein hosbisau plant yn eu darparu i deuluoedd ar gyfer rheoli poen a symptomau gofidus eu plentyn, ond hefyd, fel y dywedodd yr Aelodau, y seibiant byr y gallant eu cynnig i deuluoedd, y cymorth gofal diwedd oes tosturiol a'r gefnogaeth emosiynol hyd at a thu hwnt i farwolaeth plentyn. Mae ymchwil yn dangos bod nifer gyffredinol y plant a'r bobl ifanc sydd â chyflyrau sy'n cyfyngu ar fywyd wedi cynyddu, ac mae modelu'n awgrymu y bydd y niferoedd hynny'n parhau i gynyddu ychydig flwyddyn ar ôl blwyddyn dros y degawd nesaf. Mae hynny'n rhannol oherwydd bod disgwyliad oes yn cynyddu, gyda phobl yn byw'n hirach oherwydd datblygiadau mewn triniaethau a thechnolegau meddygol. O ganlyniad, mae mwy o bobl ifanc yn symud o wasanaethau plant i wasanaethau oedolion, sydd wedi bod yn her i hosbisau'r plant hynny, wrth iddynt reoli'r pontio yng ngofal pobl y maent wedi'u hadnabod ers amser maith.