English: I'd like to thank Osian Jones and Cymdeithas yr Iaith for arranging this petition and everyone who signed the petition. Ensuring appropriate housing in the right places for local people is crucially important. In Gwynedd at the moment there are around 160 individuals, couples and families too, who have been placed in temporary accommodation, which is inappropriate, because they don't have a proper home. Over 2,000 Gwynedd residents have registered an application for social housing. The average waiting time before social housing is provided is consistently over 400 days. Much of my casework relates to young people living in inappropriate and damp homes and flats, in homes where there are too many people, young families having to share their parents' home, and some, of course, living on the street. The other side of the coin is luxurious homes that are empty for large parts of the year. The local housing stock is shrinking as property is purchased as second homes or for holiday accommodation. In Gwynedd now, there are 7,000 second homes or holiday accommodation in the county - that's 11 per cent of all stock. The average house price in Gwynedd is £155,000. With the average income being £26,000, then the income affordability comparison is 5.9:1. Now, this means, on average, that 60 per cent of local people are priced out of the housing market. Plaid Cymru has a set of meaningful steps that would start to tackle the housing crisis. A number of organisations, including Cymdeithas yr Iaith, make reference to appropriate steps that could be put in place. Simon Brooks has also talked about the kinds of policies that we need to see implemented. There is consensus that reform to policy and finance legislation is required, and reform to planning legislation too. But what's becoming increasingly obvious is that only one party intends to take action on these policies. We hear only empty rhetoric from Labour Ministers. The problem is complex, they say. Well, the fact that something is complex isn't an adequate excuse for not taking action for our communities. The ambitious housing plan of Gwynedd Council shows what's possible under Plaid Cymru leadership, as the council generates new housing stock for people living in the county, with the new second-home premium contributing to paying for this plan. Cymdeithas yr Iaith say this: 'The open market doesn't work for the benefit of Welsh communities, and this is what's at the heart of this crisis. The only way we can resolve the problem meaningfully will be through legislating to transform housing policy so that it prioritises homes, not capital.' Those are the words of Cymdeithas yr Iaith, and I agree.
Welsh: Diolch yn fawr i Osian Jones a Chymdeithas yr Iaith am drefnu'r ddeiseb ac i bawb ddaru ei llofnodi hi. Mae sicrhau tai addas yn y llefydd iawn ar gyfer pobl leol yn allweddol. Yng Ngwynedd ar hyn o bryd, mae yna tua 160 o unigolion, sy'n gyplau ac yn deuluoedd hefyd, wedi eu lleoli mewn llety dros dro anaddas am nad oes ganddyn nhw ddim cartref iawn. Mae dros 2,000 o drigolion Gwynedd wedi cofrestru cais am dŷ cymdeithasol. Mae'r amser cyfartalog sydd angen ei ddisgwyl cyn cael tŷ cymdeithasol yn gyson dros 400 diwrnod. Mae llawer iawn o fy ngwaith achos i yn ymwneud â phobl leol yn byw mewn tai a fflatiau anaddas a thamp, mewn tai lle mae yno ormod o bobl, teuluoedd ifanc yn gorfod rhannu cartrefi eu rhieni, a rhai, wrth gwrs, ar y stryd. Ochr arall y geiniog ydy tai moethus sy'n wag am rannau helaeth o'r flwyddyn. Mae'r stoc tai lleol yn crebachu wrth i eiddo gael ei brynu fel ail gartrefi neu ar gyfer llety gwyliau byr. Yng Ngwynedd erbyn hyn, mae yna 7,000 o ail gartrefi neu lety gwyliau yn y sir - 11 y cant o'r stoc. Ar gyfartaledd, pris tŷ yng Ngwynedd yw £155,000. Gydag incwm cyfartalog o £26,000, y gymhareb fforddiadwyedd incwm i brisiau tai yn y sir yw 5.9:1. Mae hyn yn golygu, ar gyfartaledd, fod 60 y cant o bobl leol yn cael eu prisio allan o'r farchnad dai. Mae gan Blaid Cymru set o fesurau pwrpasol fyddai'n dechrau mynd i'r afael â'r argyfwng tai. Mae nifer o fudiadau, gan gynnwys Cymdeithas yr Iaith, yn cyfeirio at fesurau priodol y gellid eu rhoi ar waith. Mae Simon Brooks hefyd wedi sôn am y math o bolisïau sydd angen eu rhoi ar waith. Mae yna gonsensws bod angen diwygiadau i bolisi a deddfwriaeth cyllid a diwygiadau i bolisi cynllunio, ond beth sydd yn gynyddol amlwg ydy mai dim ond un plaid sydd yn bwriadu gweithredu ar y polisïau yma. Geiriau gwag sydd yn dod gan Weinidogion Llafur. Mae'r broblem yn gymhleth, medden nhw. Wel, dydy'r ffaith bod rhywbeth yn gymhleth ddim yn esgus digon da dros beidio â gweithredu dros gymunedau. Mae cynllun tai uchelgeisiol Cyngor Gwynedd yn dangos beth sy'n bosib dan arweiniad Plaid Cymru wrth i'r cyngor fwrw ati i greu stoc newydd o dai ar gyfer pobl y sir, efo premiwm yr ail gartrefi newydd yn cyfrannu at dalu am y cynllun yma. Mae Cymdeithas yr Iaith yn dweud hyn: 'Nid yw'r farchnad agored yn gweithio er budd cymunedau Cymru, a dyma sydd wrth wraidd yr argyfwng. Yr unig fodd y gallwn ddatrys y broblem, mewn gwirionedd, fydd drwy ddeddfu i drawsnewid polisi tai fel ei fod yn blaenoriaethu cartrefi nid cyfalaf.' Cymdeithas yr Iaith sydd yn dweud hynny, a dwi'n cytuno.