English: Thank you very much for raising those questions this afternoon, and thank you very much also for your support for our position on the European Investment Bank, because it is clearly a really important source of both funding and expertise for us here in Wales. It's provided us with a key role, really, in supporting long-term investment to improve social housing here in Wales, education, energy, infrastructure, transport and water infrastructure. It's included backing investment by Welsh Water, for example, right across the country, including Stebonheath Primary School in Llanelli, where the RainScape project is helping to reduce sewage overflow into the Bristol channel. It also helped to fund the second Severn crossing and the A55 dual carriageway from Chester to Holyhead, as well as new roads in south and west Glamorgan, Dyfed and Gwent, and the Member talked about the importance of investing in that infrastructure. Recent European Investment Bank lending has supported education investment in Wales, including backing the new Swansea University bay campus, and cutting heating costs at Bangor University, for example, and has also provided support for our social housing programme, providing new homes and also improving existing properties, working with 10 different housing associations right across Wales. And, of course, the EIB has also backed key investment at Ford in Bridgend as well. So, clearly, it's an important source of finance, but also an important source of expertise too. And those additional benefits of expertise have very much come to the fore through the work that we've been doing to develop the south-Wales metro project, for example, which has very, very strongly benefited from the commercial expertise, which has informed the procurement process, whilst other previous investments in Wales have also benefited from the best practice that the EIB has been able to identify for us as well. In terms of the specific projects, I can provide an update on the A465. As you know, the public local inquiry concluded at the end of May 2018. I mentioned in my statement that the Minister has agreed to make the orders. So, a decision to proceed with the next stage now of procurement will be taken in the coming weeks, and an update will be forthcoming from the economy and transport Minister in respect of that. With regard to the Velindre project, the current status is that Velindre University NHS Trust is developing a suite of outline business cases for the delivery of the new Velindre Cancer Centre on the Northern Meadows site in Whitchurch, and Welsh Government is supporting the trust to deliver this major project to ensure that appropriate monitoring for that is in place. Work is being prioritised to secure site access at the moment, and there are some detailed negotiations going on with a range of third parties to make sure that can happen, and in parallel, then, the enabling works business case is being developed, pending the conclusion of those negotiations. The latest plan reports a completion date at the end of 2023, with an opening due in the first half of 2024. Again, we are at an early stage with the mutual investment model in terms of its approach to supporting our twenty-first century schools programme, and Kirsty Williams does intend to issue a further statement on this issue shortly. You referred to transparency, and that's one of the benefits of the mutual investment model - transparency will be key - also access to information for Assembly Members, and I'm really keen that we do take all opportunities to provide good information to Assembly Members on this, and there will be specific reporting requirements to Welsh Government as a shareholder and also as a client as well. Those specific details will be set out in the project agreements that are agreed with our partners in terms of delivering on these projects. In terms of capital equipment, I think it is the right decision not to use the mutual investment model for that, but clearly there are other options in terms of how we would fund that. It's just a question, really, of finding the most appropriate source of funding for the kind of things that we wish to procure.
Welsh: Diolch yn fawr iawn am godi'r cwestiynau hynny'r prynhawn yma, a diolch yn fawr i chi hefyd am eich cefnogaeth i'n safbwynt ni ynglŷn â Banc Buddsoddi Ewrop, oherwydd, yn amlwg, mae'n ffynhonnell bwysig o arian ac arbenigedd i ni yma yng Nghymru. Mae wedi darparu swyddogaeth allweddol inni, mewn gwirionedd, yn cefnogi buddsoddiad tymor hir i wella tai cymdeithasol yma yng Nghymru, addysg, ynni, seilwaith, trafnidiaeth a seilwaith dŵr. Mae wedi cynnwys cefnogi buddsoddiad gan Dŵr Cymru, er enghraifft, ar draws y wlad, gan gynnwys Ysgol Gynradd Stebonheath yn Llanelli, lle mae'r prosiect Glawlif yn helpu i leihau gorlif carthion i Fôr Hafren. Roedd hefyd yn gymorth i ariannu ail bont Hafren a ffordd ddeuol yr A55 o Gaer i Gaergybi, yn ogystal â ffyrdd newydd yn ne a gorllewin Morgannwg, Dyfed a Gwent, a soniodd yr Aelod am bwysigrwydd buddsoddi yn y seilwaith hwnnw. Mae benthyciadau diweddar o Fanc Buddsoddi Ewrop wedi cefnogi buddsoddi mewn addysg yng Nghymru, gan gynnwys cefnogi campws newydd Prifysgol Bae Abertawe, a thorri costau gwresogi ym Mhrifysgol Bangor, er enghraifft, ac mae hefyd wedi darparu cymorth ar gyfer ein rhaglen tai cymdeithasol, gan ddarparu cartrefi newydd yn ogystal â gwella tai presennol, gan weithio gyda 10 o gymdeithasau tai gwahanol ledled Cymru. Ac, wrth gwrs, mae Banc Buddsoddi Ewrop hefyd wedi cefnogi buddsoddiad allweddol yng nghwmni Ford ym Mhen-y-bont ar Ogwr. Felly, yn amlwg, mae'n ffynhonnell bwysig o gyllid, ond hefyd yn ffynhonnell bwysig o arbenigedd. Ac mae'r manteision ychwanegol hynny o arbenigedd wedi dod i'r amlwg i raddau helaeth iawn drwy'r gwaith yr ydym ni wedi'i wneud i ddatblygu prosiect metro de Cymru, er enghraifft, sydd wedi elwa'n fawr iawn yn wir ar yr arbenigedd masnachol, sydd wedi cyfrannu at y broses gaffael, tra bod buddsoddiadau blaenorol eraill yng Nghymru wedi elwa hefyd ar arferion gorau y mae Banc Buddsoddi Ewrop wedi gallu dwyn ein sylw ni atyn nhw hefyd. O ran y prosiectau penodol, gallaf roi'r newyddion diweddaraf am yr A465. Fel y gwyddoch chi, daeth yr ymchwiliad lleol cyhoeddus i ben ar ddiwedd mis Mai 2018. Soniais yn fy natganiad bod y Gweinidog wedi cytuno i wneud y gorchmynion. Felly, bydd penderfyniad i fwrw ymlaen â'r cam nesaf yn awr o ran caffael yn yr wythnosau nesaf, a bydd y newyddion diweddaraf ar gael gan y Gweinidog Economi a Thrafnidiaeth mewn cysylltiad â hynny. O ran y prosiect yn Felindre, y sefyllfa ar hyn o bryd yw bod Ymddiriedolaeth GIG Prifysgol Felindre yn datblygu cyfres o achosion busnes amlinellol ar gyfer darparu Canolfan Ganser newydd Felindre ar safle'r Northern Meadows yn yr Eglwys Newydd, ac mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn cynorthwyo'r ymddiriedolaeth i gwblhau'r prosiect pwysig hwn i sicrhau bod monitro priodol ar gyfer hynny ar waith. Mae gwaith yn cael ei flaenoriaethu i sicrhau mynediad i'r safle ar hyn o bryd, ac mae rhai trafodaethau manwl yn digwydd gydag amrywiaeth o gyrff a sefydliadau eraill i wneud yn sicr y gall hynny ddigwydd, ac ochr yn ochr â hynny, wedyn, mae achos busnes y gwaith galluogi yn cael ei ddatblygu, tra bo'r trafodaethau hynny'n mynd rhagddynt. Mae'r cynllun diweddaraf yn sôn am ddyddiad cwblhau ar ddiwedd 2023, gydag agoriad yn hanner cyntaf 2024. Unwaith eto, dim ond megis dechrau yr ydym ni gyda'r model buddsoddi cydfuddiannol o ran sut y gall hynny gefnogi ein rhaglen ysgolion yr unfed ganrif ar hugain, ac mae Kirsty Williams yn bwriadu cyhoeddi datganiad arall ar y mater hwn cyn bo hir. Fe wnaethoch chi gyfeirio at dryloywder, a dyna un o fanteision y model buddsoddi cydfuddiannol - bydd tryloywder yn allweddol - hefyd y sicrwydd y bydd gwybodaeth ar gael i Aelodau'r Cynulliad, ac rwy'n awyddus iawn ein bod ni yn achub ar bob cyfle i roi gwybodaeth drylwyr i Aelodau'r Cynulliad ynglŷn â hyn, a bydd gofynion adrodd penodol i Lywodraeth Cymry fel cyfranddaliwr a hefyd fel cleient. Caiff y manylion penodol hynny eu nodi yn y cytundebau prosiect a gytunir arnyn nhw gyda'n partneriaid o ran cyflawni'r prosiectau hyn. O ran cyfarpar cyfalaf, rwy'n credu mai'r penderfyniad cywir yw peidio â defnyddio'r model buddsoddi cydfuddiannol ar gyfer hwnnw, ond yn amlwg mae dewisiadau eraill o ran sut y byddwn ni'n ariannu hwnnw. Mae'n fater mewn gwirionedd, o ddod o hyd i'r ffynhonnell fwyaf priodol o gyllid ar gyfer y math o bethau yr ydym ni eisiau eu caffael.