English: Thank you, Presiding Officer. It's always interesting when you've got the short debate on the Wednesday before half term or the end of term. Alun Davies has been given a minute in this debate. The structure of public services in Wales: have we got it right? The answer is 'yes' in some cases and 'no' in others. Where we have got it wrong, is it bad enough to need a restructuring? The Welsh public service consists of hundreds of organisations. There are small and localised ones, whilst others are large and some cover all of Wales. The view held by many, if not most, Senedd Members, and at least in part by the Welsh Government, is that larger organisations are better, and no failings of the large organisations in Wales have convinced them otherwise. In fact, whilst the failings of Betsi Cadwaladr health board are well documented, I have been told by a former Plaid Cymru health spokesperson that we should have one health board for Wales. A Conservative Member has told me there should be two, with one for the north and one for the south. The arguments are superficially attractive. You reduce the number of chief executives, the executive team and board members, releasing savings. Over many years there have been service reorganisations that have created larger and larger organisations throughout Wales. We've gone from lots to, in some cases, one, in some cases seven. But a lot have gone just down to one. The Welsh ambulance service was established in 1998 by the amalgamation of four existing ambulance trusts and the ambulance service provided by Pembrokeshire and Derwen NHS Trust. Public Health Wales was created at the same time as the local health boards by the merger of the national public health service, Wales Centre for Health, Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit, Congenital Anomaly Register and Information Service for Wales, and Screening Services Wales. Digital Health and Care Wales provides systems and services that are used in patients' homes, in GP practices, in hospitals, and in the community. Seven local health boards that now plan, secure and deliver health services in their areas replaced the 22 health boards and NHS trusts that performed these functions previously. The population sizes vary - Powys at just over 130,000 to Betsi Cadwaladr at just under 700,000 - but in many respects, the population matters less than geographical distance. The National Procurement Service was created by the Welsh Government in March 2013. Its remit is to secure in the region of £1 billion worth of goods and services in common and repetitive spend. Natural Resources Wales was formed by the merger of the Countryside Council for Wales, Environment Agency Wales and the Forestry Commission in Wales. Since its creation, there have been a number of loans from invest-to-save to fund redundancies, and a highly critical auditor general report regarding the sale of trees. Two trunk road agencies have replaced the former eight county council-run agencies. The Welsh Government reviewed the way in which trunk roads and motorways were being managed, and decided to reduce the number from eight down to three and then down to two. Three national parks: following the Environment Act 1995, each national park has been managed by its own national park authority since 1997. But, there have been those people who have been putting forth an argument that we really only want one national park body in Wales. This idea is that one is better than any other number, despite everything you see. Fairly recently we had the call to merge them. We've got three fire and rescue services, which were formed as a consequence of local government reorganisation, replacing the eight former county council fire and rescue services. Then we have four regional education consortiums. Twenty-two county or county borough councils were created in 1995 by the merger of county and district councils. For several years, there have been calls from some politicians for local government mergers, including one who is in the room today. Over 700 town and community councils. The careers service has been taken out of local control and is now run centrally.
Welsh: Diolch. Mae hi bob amser yn ddiddorol pan fydd gennych chi'r ddadl fer ar y dydd Mercher cyn hanner tymor neu ar ddiwedd y tymor. Mae Alun Davies wedi cael munud yn y ddadl hon. Strwythur gwasanaethau cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: a ydym wedi'i gael yn iawn? Yr ateb yw 'ydym' mewn rhai achosion a 'nac ydym' mewn achosion eraill. Lle rydym wedi'i gael yn anghywir, a yw'n ddigon gwael i fod angen ailstrwythuro? Mae'r gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru yn cynnwys cannoedd o sefydliadau. Ceir rhai bach, lleol, tra bod eraill yn fawr a rhai'n darparu ar gyfer Cymru gyfan. Y farn sydd gan nifer, os nad y rhan fwyaf, o Aelodau'r Senedd, ac o leiaf yn rhannol gan Lywodraeth Cymru, yw bod sefydliadau mwy o faint yn well, ac nid oes unrhyw fethiannau ar ran y sefydliadau mawr yng Nghymru wedi eu hargyhoeddi fel arall. Mewn gwirionedd, er bod methiannau bwrdd iechyd Betsi Cadwaladr wedi'u dogfennu'n dda, mae cyn-lefarydd iechyd Plaid Cymru wedi dweud wrthyf y dylem gael un bwrdd iechyd i Gymru. Mae Aelod Ceidwadol wedi dweud wrthyf y dylid cael dau, gydag un ar gyfer y gogledd ac un ar gyfer y de. Mae'r dadleuon yn ddeniadol ar yr wyneb. Rydych yn lleihau nifer y prif weithredwyr, tîm y weithrediaeth ac aelodau'r bwrdd, gan ryddhau arbedion. Dros nifer o flynyddoedd gwelwyd gwasanaethau'n cael eu had-drefnu gan greu sefydliadau mwy a mwy o faint ledled Cymru. Rydym wedi mynd o lawer i un, mewn rhai achosion, a saith mewn rhai achosion. Ond mae nifer wedi mynd i lawr i ddim ond un. Sefydlwyd gwasanaeth ambiwlans Cymru yn 1998 drwy uno'r pedair ymddiriedolaeth ambiwlans ar y pryd a'r gwasanaeth ambiwlans a gâi ei ddarparu gan Ymddiriedolaeth GIG Sir Benfro a Derwen. Cafodd Iechyd Cyhoeddus Cymru ei greu yr un pryd â'r byrddau iechyd lleol drwy uno'r gwasanaeth iechyd cyhoeddus cenedlaethol, Canolfan Iechyd Cymru, Uned Gwybodaeth ac Arolygaeth Canser Cymru, Gwasanaeth Cofrestr a Gwybodaeth Anomaleddau Cynhenid Cymru, a Gwasanaethau Sgrinio Cymru. Mae Iechyd a Gofal Digidol Cymru yn darparu systemau a gwasanaethau a ddefnyddir yng nghartrefi cleifion, mewn meddygfeydd, mewn ysbytai, ac yn y gymuned. Mae saith bwrdd iechyd lleol bellach yn cynllunio, yn diogelu ac yn darparu gwasanaethau iechyd yn eu hardaloedd yn lle'r 22 bwrdd iechyd ac ymddiriedolaethau GIG a gyflawnai'r swyddogaethau hyn o'r blaen. Mae maint y boblogaeth yn amrywio - Powys ar ychydig dros 130,000 i Betsi Cadwaladr ar ychydig dan 700,000 - ond mewn sawl ffordd, mae'r boblogaeth yn llai pwysig na phellter daearyddol. Cafodd y Gwasanaeth Caffael Cenedlaethol ei greu gan Lywodraeth Cymru ym mis Mawrth 2013. Ei gylch gwaith yw sicrhau gwerth £1 biliwn o nwyddau a gwasanaethau mewn gwariant cyffredin a rheolaidd. Ffurfiwyd Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru drwy uno Cyngor Cefn Gwlad Cymru, Asiantaeth yr Amgylchedd Cymru a Chomisiwn Coedwigaeth Cymru. Ers ei greu, cafwyd nifer o fenthyciadau buddsoddi-i-arbed i ariannu diswyddiadau, a cheir adroddiad cyffredinol archwilydd sy'n hynod feirniadol ar werthu coed. Ceir dwy asiantaeth gefnffyrdd yn lle'r wyth asiantaeth flaenorol a gâi eu rhedeg gan gynghorau sir. Adolygodd Llywodraeth Cymru y ffordd y câi cefnffyrdd a thraffyrdd eu rheoli, a phenderfynodd leihau'r nifer o wyth i dri ac yna i lawr i ddau. Tri pharc cenedlaethol: yn dilyn Deddf yr Amgylchedd 1995, mae pob parc cenedlaethol wedi cael ei reoli gan ei awdurdod parc cenedlaethol ei hun ers 1997. Ond mae rhai pobl yn dadlau mai un corff parciau cenedlaethol rydym ei eisiau yng Nghymru. Y syniad yw bod un yn well nag unrhyw rif arall, er gwaethaf popeth a welwch. Yn weddol ddiweddar cawsom yr alwad i'w huno. Mae gennym dri gwasanaeth tân ac achub, a ffurfiwyd yn sgil ad-drefnu llywodraeth leol, yn lle'r wyth gwasanaeth tân ac achub blaenorol a oedd gan y cynghorau sir. Yna mae gennym bedwar consortiwm addysg rhanbarthol. Crëwyd 22 o gynghorau sir neu fwrdeistrefi sirol ym 1995 drwy uno cynghorau sir a dosbarth. Ers sawl blwyddyn, bu galwadau gan rai gwleidyddion am uno llywodraeth leol, gan gynnwys un sydd yn yr ystafell heddiw. Dros 700 o gynghorau tref a chymuned. Mae'r gwasanaeth gyrfaoedd wedi cael ei dynnu allan o reolaeth leol ac mae bellach yn cael ei redeg yn ganolog.