English: Thank you for your answer, Minister. I would of course understand that you were put in a very difficult position when you became the health Minister, because your predecessor left the position in a very, very difficult state. We were in a difficult position well before we entered the pandemic, and I appreciate the difficult task that you've now got in front of you, Minister. When I talked about targets being met, you referred to, 'No-one's meeting targets; targets aren't met around the world', but these are targets that you brought forward yourself - as I understand it, but correct me if I'm wrong - to health boards just in recent months, or certainly last year, to make sure that targets were met by January and February just gone, as I outlined. So, I think it's completely reasonable for me to ask have those targets been met and to understand the position in that regard. You have talked about the new figures for waiting times coming out tomorrow, and I understand that's of course the case. As it stands at the moment, the last figures published show us nearly 50,000 patients in Wales are waiting over two years for treatment - over two years for treatment. And that figure is double - double - that of people waiting in the entirety of England, and England has a population 18 times the size of Wales. So, can I ask you - and this goes back to my earlier point about you being put in a very difficult position and we were in a difficult position before we entered the pandemic - can you explain how this utterly dire comparison ever came into being in the first place?
Welsh: Diolch am eich ateb, Weinidog. Rwy'n deall wrth gwrs eich bod wedi cael eich rhoi mewn sefyllfa anodd iawn pan ddaethoch yn Weinidog iechyd, oherwydd gadawodd eich rhagflaenydd y swydd mewn cyflwr anodd tu hwnt. Roeddem mewn sefyllfa anodd ymhell cyn inni wynebu'r pandemig, ac rwy'n deall pa mor anodd yw'r dasg sy'n eich wynebu yn awr, Weinidog. Pan soniais am gyrraedd targedau, fe ddywedoch chi 'Nid oes neb yn cyrraedd targedau; nid yw targedau'n cael eu cyrraedd ledled y byd', ond mae'r rhain yn dargedau a gyflwynwyd gennych chi eich hun - yn ôl yr hyn a ddeallaf, ond dywedwch os ydw i'n anghywir - i fyrddau iechyd yn ystod y misoedd diwethaf, neu'n sicr y llynedd, i sicrhau bod targedau'n cael eu cyrraedd erbyn y mis Ionawr a'r mis Chwefror sydd newydd fod, fel yr amlinellais. Felly, rwy'n credu ei bod yn gwbl resymol imi ofyn a yw'r targedau hynny wedi'u cyrraedd a deall y sefyllfa o ran hynny. Rydych wedi sôn am y ffigurau newydd ar gyfer amseroedd aros a fydd yn cael eu cyhoeddi yfory, a deallaf hynny wrth gwrs. Fel y mae ar hyn o bryd, mae'r ffigurau diwethaf a gyhoeddwyd yn dangos bod bron i 50,000 o gleifion yng Nghymru yn aros dros ddwy flynedd am driniaeth - dros ddwy flynedd am driniaeth. Ac mae'r ffigur hwnnw'n ddwbl - dwbl - nifer y bobl sy'n aros yn Lloegr gyfan, ac mae gan Loegr boblogaeth 18 gwaith maint Cymru. Felly, a gaf fi ofyn i chi - ac mae hyn yn mynd yn ôl at fy mhwynt cynharach eich bod wedi cael eich rhoi mewn sefyllfa anodd iawn a'n bod ni mewn sefyllfa anodd cyn dechrau'r pandemig - a wnewch chi egluro sut y cododd y gymhariaeth gwbl enbyd hon yn y lle cyntaf?