English: I'd like to thank Julie, Dai, Rhun, Mark, Hefin and Jenny for tabling this individual Member's debate and for giving us all the opportunity to discuss this very important topic. The contaminated blood scandal is one of the darkest periods in the history of our NHS. The fact that people who sought help from the health service were exposed to deadly viruses is shocking enough, but the fact that they have been denied a proper explanation as to how this was allowed to happen is inexcusable. The previous UK Government did apologise to patients infected by contaminated blood and their families, but they were still denied a full, independent public inquiry. Successive Governments have monumentally failed to address the concerns of the victims of the contaminated blood scandal. In comparison, following pressure from the Scottish Parliament's health committee, the newly elected SNP Government in 2008 ordered a full public inquiry into the infection of people with hepatitis C and HIV contracted from NHS treatment. The inquiry began in 2009 and published its final report in March 2015. The report spans five volumes and runs to over 1,800 pages, having considered the treatment of bleeding disorders and blood transfusions in Scotland between 1974 and 1991. The people of Wales deserve no less. We need a full, independent inquiry covering the use of blood and blood products in the Welsh NHS. Seventy people have died in Wales as a result of the contaminated blood scandal and numerous others are living with diseases they acquired as a result of the treatment they received. However, we don't know how many others have received treatment, contracted an infection, but remain undiagnosed. The Scottish inquiry recommended that everyone who received a blood transfusion before September 1991 be tested for hepatitis C. That's the purpose of such inquiries: to establish the facts, to make recommendations and to ensure that lessons are learnt so that we don't make the same mistakes again. We need to establish the facts of what went on in our health service during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. These families deserve an explanation. How was a large American pharmaceutical company allowed to collect blood from prisoners in America and from the third world without any testing of the donors? How were the products produced from this blood licensed? Were products produced by this company still used in Welsh hospitals after they were withdrawn from the US? Have we learned anything from this dark period in the NHS's history and are we sure that something like this could never, ever happen again? Only a full, independent public inquiry can address these questions. Only a full, independent public inquiry can provide answers to the victims of this scandal. And only a full, independent public inquiry can provide closure for those who have sadly passed away, and their families, as a result of receiving this contaminated blood. I urge the Welsh Government and the UK Government to work together to do the right thing and order such an inquiry while many of the victims are still with us. Thank you very much. Diolch yn fawr.
Welsh: Hoffwn ddiolch i Julie, Dai, Rhun, Mark, Hefin a Jenny am gyflwyno'r ddadl hon gan Aelodau unigol ac am roi'r cyfle i bawb ohonom drafod y pwnc pwysig hwn. Mae'r sgandal gwaed halogedig yn un o'r cyfnodau tywyllaf yn hanes ein GIG. Mae'r ffaith fod pobl a ofynnodd am gymorth gan y gwasanaeth iechyd yn agored i firysau marwol yn frawychus ddigon, ond mae'r ffaith eu bod wedi methu cael esboniad priodol ynglŷn â sut y caniatawyd i hyn ddigwydd yn anfaddeuol. Ymddiheurodd Llywodraeth flaenorol y DU i gleifion a heintiwyd gan waed halogedig a'u teuluoedd, ond gwrthodwyd rhoi ymchwiliad cyhoeddus llawn, annibynnol iddynt er hynny. Mae Llywodraethau olynol wedi methu mynd i'r afael â phryderon dioddefwyr y sgandal gwaed halogedig yn llwyr. Mewn cymhariaeth, yn dilyn pwysau gan bwyllgor iechyd Senedd yr Alban, gorchmynnodd y Llywodraeth SNP a oedd newydd ei hethol yn 2008 y dylid cynnal ymchwiliad cyhoeddus llawn i'r modd y cafodd pobl eu heintio â hepatitis C a HIV a ddaliwyd yn sgil triniaeth y GIG. Dechreuodd yr ymchwiliad yn 2009 a chyhoeddodd ei adroddiad terfynol ym mis Mawrth 2015. Mae'r adroddiad yn bum cyfrol a thros 1,800 o dudalennau o hyd, ac mae'n ystyried y ffordd y câi anhwylderau gwaedu a thrallwysiadau gwaed eu trin yn yr Alban rhwng 1974 a 1991. Nid yw pobl Cymru yn haeddu dim llai. Mae arnom angen ymchwiliad llawn, annibynnol yn cwmpasu'r defnydd o waed a chynhyrchion gwaed yn y GIG yng Nghymru. Mae 70 o bobl wedi marw yng Nghymru o ganlyniad i'r sgandal gwaed halogedig ac mae nifer o bobl eraill yn byw gyda chlefydau a gawsant o ganlyniad i'w triniaeth. Fodd bynnag, nid ydym yn gwybod faint o bobl eraill sydd wedi cael triniaeth, wedi dal haint, ond sy'n parhau i fod heb gael diagnosis. Argymhellodd yr ymchwiliad yn yr Alban y dylai pawb a gafodd drallwysiad gwaed cyn mis Medi 1991 gael prawf hepatitis C. Dyna ddiben ymchwiliadau o'r fath: sefydlu'r ffeithiau, gwneud argymhellion a sicrhau bod gwersi'n cael eu dysgu fel nad ydym yn gwneud yr un camgymeriadau eto. Mae angen i ni sefydlu'r ffeithiau am yr hyn a ddigwyddodd yn ein gwasanaeth iechyd yn ystod y 1970au, y 1980au a'r 1990au. Mae'r teuluoedd hyn yn haeddu esboniad. Sut y cafodd cwmni fferyllol mawr Americanaidd ganiatâd i gasglu gwaed gan garcharorion yn America ac o'r trydydd byd heb gynnal profion ar unrhyw un o'r rhoddwyr? Sut y cafodd y cynhyrchion a gynhyrchwyd o'r gwaed hwn eu trwyddedu? A oedd cynnyrch a gynhyrchwyd gan y cwmni hwn yn dal i gael eu defnyddio mewn ysbytai yng Nghymru ar ôl iddynt gael eu tynnu'n ôl yn yr Unol Daleithiau? A ydym wedi dysgu unrhyw beth o'r cyfnod tywyll hwn yn hanes y GIG, ac a ydym yn sicr na allai rhywbeth fel hyn byth ddigwydd eto? Ymchwiliad cyhoeddus llawn, annibynnol yn unig a all ateb y cwestiynau hyn. Ymchwiliad cyhoeddus llawn, annibynnol yn unig a all ddarparu atebion i ddioddefwyr y sgandal hon. Ac ymchwiliad cyhoeddus llawn, annibynnol yn unig a all gau'r drws ar hyn o ran y rhai sydd, yn anffodus, wedi marw o ganlyniad i gael y gwaed halogedig hwn, a'u teuluoedd. Rwy'n annog Llywodraeth Cymru a Llywodraeth y DU i weithio gyda'i gilydd i wneud y peth iawn a gorchymyn ymchwiliad o'r fath tra bo llawer o'r dioddefwyr yn dal i fod gyda ni. Diolch yn fawr iawn. Diolch yn fawr.