English: Thank you very much, Llywydd, and Plaid Cymru is pleased to co-submit this motion. It's very important that there is cross-party support here, and I do appeal to Members on the Labour benches to support the motion. Let me take you back to August, the Bull pub in Llannerch-y-medd. And I don't know how exactly to describe the community extravaganza of the sheep shearing. There was a fair there, there was a party, an auction, and £50,000 was raised in one afternoon and evening, and all of that funding donated to the air ambulance. Why? Because everybody appreciates this service and what it means to our more rural communities, in that case. Certainly, it's a service for all parts of Wales, the urban and the rural, but one of the major drivers behind the service and its establishment was the fact that there are so many parts of Wales that are long distances from hospitals, difficult to reach with ambulances, or a long way from specialist care. Over time, the service grew: one, two, three, then four helicopters, with the inception of EMRTS teams transforming things further, and now this is a service provided in all parts of Wales, all parts covered by helicopters, with Caernarfon and Welshpool serving the north-east, the north-west and mid Wales. But now that's under threat. The intention is to close those two sites, Caernarfon and Welshpool, and to move to one site in central north Wales, and I fear that that will be a mistake if it happens. Why is this even being proposed? Well, quite simply, according to EMRTS, more people will be reached, a higher number, and more calls will be responded to by the air ambulance teams - by air or with their response vehicles. Because of course this is a service that works in two ways - on-road vehicles as well as helicopters. But I fear that it's a matter of hitting a statistical target, that that's what we have here, rather than considering the true purpose of the air ambulance service. If it's possible to reach more people - and EMRTS say that that's the case - and to deliver against that statistical ambition, well, I fear that it'll be through serving more people in the more populated areas of the north-east at the expense of the population in the more rural areas. Now, as I said, this is a service for all parts of Wales, and it's important that EMRTS can reach as many people as possible in the north-east too. So, isn't the solution to provide a team with a road vehicle in that area, a team that could reach a very wide area quickly, with helicopters still being available, of course, from their current bases, if needs be? Now, in closing Caernarfon and Welshpool, it's not just the aircraft that would disappear, the vehicles would be gone too, and you don't need an expert on Welsh geography to realise that trying to serve the north of Anglesey, the far end of the Llŷn peninsula, south Meirionnydd or Powys from Rhuddlan with a vehicle as an emergency service is never going to work.
Welsh: Diolch yn fawr iawn, Llywydd, ac mae Plaid Cymru yn falch iawn o allu cyd-gyflwyno'r cynnig yma. Mae'n bwysig iawn bod yna gefnogaeth ar draws y pleidiau yn fan hyn, a dwi yn apelio ar Aelodau ar y meinciau Llafur i gefnogi'r cynnig. Gadewch i fi fynd â chi nôl i fis Awst, tafarn y Tarw, y Bull, yn Llannerch-y-medd. Dwi ddim yn gwybod sut yn union i ddisgrifio extravaganza cymunedol y cneifio cylch. Oedd, mi oedd yna gneifio yno, ond mi oedd yna ffair yno, mi oedd yna wledd a pharti, mi oedd yna ocsiwn yno, ac mi godwyd £50,000 mewn un prynhawn, un gyda'r nos, a'r arian i gyd yn mynd i'r ambiwlans awyr. Pam? Achos mae pawb yn gwerthfawrogi'r gwasanaeth yma a beth mae'n ei olygu i'n cymunedau mwy gwledig ni, yn yr achos yna. Ydy, mae'n wasanaeth ar gyfer pob rhan o Gymru, y trefol a'r gwledig, ond un o'r gyrwyr mawr, wrth gwrs, y tu ôl i'r gwasanaeth pan sefydlwyd o oedd y ffaith bod yna gymaint o Gymru ymhell o ysbyty, yn anodd ei chyrraedd gan ambiwlans, neu ymhell o ofal iechyd arbenigol. Dros amser, mi dyfodd y gwasanaeth - un, dau, tri, wedyn pedwar hofrennydd, efo dyfodiad timau arbenigol EMRTS wedyn, wrth gwrs, yn trawsnewid pethau, ac, erbyn hyn, mae hwn yn wasanaeth ym mhob rhan o Gymru, pob rhan o fewn cyrraedd hofrennydd, gyda Chaernarfon a'r Trallwng rhyngddyn nhw yn gwasanaethu'r gogledd-orllewin, y gogledd-ddwyrain a'r canolbarth. Ond rŵan mae hynny dan fygythiad. Y bwriad yw cau'r ddau safle yna, Caernarfon a'r Trallwng, a symud i un newydd, yng nghanol y gogledd yn rhywle, a dwi'n ofni bod hynny am fod yn gamgymeriad, os caiff o ddigwydd. Pam mae hyn hyd yn oed yn cael ei gynnig? Yn syml iawn, yn ôl EMRTS, mi fydd mwy o bobl yn gallu cael eu cyrraedd, nifer uwch; mi fydd mwy o alwadau yn gallu cael eu hateb gan dimau'r ambiwlans awyr - o'r awyr, neu gan eu fflyd o gerbydau. Achos, cofiwch, mae hwn yn wasanaeth sy'n gweithio mewn dwy ffordd - cerbydau ar y ffordd a hofrenyddion. Ond dwi'n ofni mai mater o geisio cyrraedd targed ystadegol ydy hyn, yn hytrach nag ystyried gwir bwrpas y gwasanaeth ambiwlans awyr. Os bydd yn bosib cyrraedd mwy o bobl - mae EMRTS yn dweud y bydd - a gwireddu'r uchelgais ystadegol, wel, dwi'n ofni mai drwy wasanaethu mwy o bobl yn ardaloedd mwy poblog y gogledd-ddwyrain fydd hynny yn cael ei gyflawni, a hynny ar draul poblogaeth yr ardaloedd mwyaf gwledig. Rŵan, fel y dywedais i, mae hwn yn wasanaeth i bob rhan o Gymru, ac mae'n bwysig bod EMRTS yn gallu cyrraedd gymaint â phosib o bobl yn y gogledd-ddwyrain hefyd. Felly, onid yr ateb ydy i roi tîm efo cerbyd ffordd yn yr ardal honno, tîm fyddai yn gallu gyrraedd ardal eang iawn yn gyflym, efo hofrenyddion wrth gwrs yn dal ar gael o'u bases presennol hefyd, os oes angen hynny? Wrth gau Caernarfon a'r Trallwng, nid dim ond yr hofrenyddion fyddai'n mynd yna, mi fyddai'r cerbydau hefyd, a does dim angen arbenigwr ar ddaearyddiaeth Cymru i sylweddoli bod ceisio gwasanaethu gogledd Môn, pendraw Pen Llŷn, de Meirionnydd neu Bowys o Rhuddlan efo car fel gwasanaeth brys byth yn mynd i weithio.