English: We've also taken steps to provide better scrutiny of senior pay by ensuring that the Local Government (Democracy) (Wales) Act 2013 during the fourth Assembly improved transparency in how senior officers' pay is decided through the establishment of independent remuneration panels. Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM ensured that all senior pay awards have to be scrutinised and voted on in councils, and that an independent remuneration panel had to make recommendations. This step removed the allegation and the perceived problem of things being done behind closed doors. Our motion today calls for the introduction of a nationally decided set of pay scales and terms and conditions through a national framework. We're also calling on the Welsh Government to define the role of local authorities' chief executives in legislation, which would include abolishing additional payments to council officials for returning officer duties. Around £150,000 was paid to returning officers for their services during the 2012 Welsh Government elections, and why pay that? The issue of senior management pay is of significant interest to the public, and the fact is that, really, telephone-number salaries in the public sector cannot be justified. The chief executive of Swansea council, appointed by Labour, earns just £2,000 less than the UK Prime Minister. The Labour-appointed chief of Carmarthenshire council earns just - . He earns, actually, £15,000 more than Theresa May, and I find that astonishing - more than the Prime Minister of the UK. It's not just the chief executives of councils, though - the salaries of senior management officers add up to millions, and, when Plaid Cymru ran Cardiff council, we got rid of a whole host of salaries over £100,000 a year, and we were actually praised by the TaxPayers' Alliance, which takes some doing. When Labour got back in, they reintroduced fat-cat salaries of over £100,000 a year. [Interruption.] No. More than half the chief executives of Wales's health boards earn at least £200,000 a year. On the Public Accounts Committee, we're investigating housing associations, and rightly so, because the tenants are among the most vulnerable people and sometimes the poorest in Wales, yet the chief executives of these organisations earn six figures. Wales & West Housing, for example: the chief executive is paid £130,000 a year. When Nick Bennett was the chief executive of the umbrella group for housing associations, Community Housing Cymru, he increased the wage bill by 15 per cent in just one year, but the basic pay of staff only went up 2 per cent. Now he's the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales, earning more than the Prime Minister - grade 5 of the judicial salaries' pay scale, another example of a six-figure merry-go-round salary, over £140,000 a year. I'll repeat that - over £140,000 a year. Let's mention Dŵr Cymru's chief executive, Chris Jones. His pay last year, including two bonuses and a pension, was £768,000 - three quarters of a million pounds. Now, excuse the irony, but a not-for-profit company, as they keep reminding us. Now, are these people worth it? I would argue that they're not, but that's not part of the motion today. But I think it would be fantastic - .
Welsh: Rydym hefyd wedi rhoi camau ar waith i ddarparu proses graffu well ar gyflogau uwch reolwyr drwy sicrhau bod Deddf Llywodraeth Leol (Democratiaeth) (Cymru) 2013 yn ystod y pedwerydd Cynulliad wedi gwella tryloywder o ran sut y pennir cyflogau uwch swyddogion drwy sefydlu paneli taliadau annibynnol. Sicrhaodd Rhodri Glyn Thomas AC fod rhaid craffu a phleidleisio ar bob dyfarniad cyflog i uwch swyddogion cynghorau, a bod yn rhaid i banel taliadau annibynnol wneud argymhellion. Roedd y cam hwn yn cael gwared ar yr honiad a'r broblem ganfyddedig fod pethau'n cael eu gwneud y tu ôl i ddrysau caeedig. Mae ein cynnig heddiw yn galw am gyflwyno cyfres o gyfraddau, telerau ac amodau cyflog a gaiff eu penderfynu'n genedlaethol drwy fframwaith cenedlaethol. Rydym hefyd yn galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru i ddiffinio rôl prif weithredwyr awdurdodau lleol mewn deddfwriaeth a fyddai'n cynnwys diddymu taliadau ychwanegol i swyddogion cynghorau ar gyfer dyletswyddau swyddogion canlyniadau. Talwyd oddeutu £150,000 i swyddogion canlyniadau am eu gwasanaethau yn ystod etholiadau Llywodraeth Cymru yn 2012, a pham talu hynny? Mae mater cyflogau uwch reolwyr o ddiddordeb sylweddol i'r cyhoedd, a'r ffaith yw na ellir cyfiawnhau cyflogau rhifau ffôn yn y sector cyhoeddus mewn gwirionedd. Mae prif weithredwr cyngor Abertawe, a benodwyd gan y Blaid Lafur, yn ennill £2,000 yn unig yn llai na Phrif Weinidog y DU. Mae prif weithredwr Llafur Cyngor Sir Caerfyrddin yn ennill - . Mewn gwirionedd, mae'n ennill £15,000 yn fwy na Theresa May, ac rwy'n ystyried hynny'n syfrdanol - mwy na Phrif Weinidog y DU. Nid yw'n ymwneud â phrif weithredwyr cynghorau'n unig, er hynny - mae cyfanswm cyflogau uwch reolwyr yn filiynau o bunnoedd, a phan oedd Plaid Cymru yn arwain cyngor Caerdydd, cawsom wared ar lu o gyflogau dros £100,000 y flwyddyn, a chawsom ein canmol mewn gwirionedd gan Gynghrair y Trethdalwyr, sy'n dipyn o orchest. Pan ddychwelodd Llafur i rym, aethant ati i ailgyflwyno cyflogau bras o fwy na £100,000 y flwyddyn. [Torri ar draws.] Na. Mae mwy na hanner prif weithredwyr byrddau iechyd Cymru yn ennill o leiaf £200,000 y flwyddyn. Yn y Pwyllgor Cyfrifon Cyhoeddus, rydym yn ymchwilio i gymdeithasau tai, a hynny'n briodol, oherwydd mae'r tenantiaid ymhlith y bobl fwyaf agored i niwed, a'r bobl dlotaf yng Nghymru weithiau, ac eto mae prif weithredwyr y sefydliadau hyn yn ennill cyflogau chwe ffigur. Tai Wales & West, er enghraifft: mae'r prif weithredwr yn ennill £130,000 y flwyddyn. Pan oedd Nick Bennett yn brif weithredwr y grŵp ymbarél ar gyfer cymdeithasau tai, Cartrefi Cymunedol Cymru, aeth ati i gynyddu'r bil cyflogau 15 y cant mewn un flwyddyn yn unig, ond 2 y cant yn unig o godiad a fu yng nghyflog sylfaenol y staff. Bellach mae'n Ombwdsmon Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus Cymru, ac yn ennill mwy na'r Prif Weinidog - gradd 5 y raddfa gyflog ar gyfer cyflogau barnwrol, enghraifft arall o gyflog chwe ffigur meri-go-rownd, dros £140,000 y flwyddyn. Ailadroddaf hynny - dros £140,000 y flwyddyn. Gadewch i ni sôn am brif weithredwr Dŵr Cymru, Chris Jones. Ei gyflog y llynedd, gan gynnwys dau fonws a phensiwn, oedd £768,000 - tri chwarter miliwn o bunnoedd. Nawr, esgusodwch yr eironi, ond cwmni di-elw, fel y maent yn ein hatgoffa o hyd. Nawr, a yw'r bobl hyn yn werth yr arian? Byddwn yn dadlau nad ydynt, ond nid yw hynny'n rhan o'r cynnig heddiw. Ond rwy'n credu y byddai'n wych - .