English: Yes, I've some sympathy with what the Member is saying about the situation that local authorities find themselves in across Wales. I just want to start off by saying that I'm very happy to join him in congratulating Ynys Môn. Llinos has done an amazing job there. She's a very inspirational young woman, the sort of person we should be attracting into politics in greater numbers. She's been very lovely to work with on the innovative housing programme, and they've done some splendid work, so I'm extremely happy to join with you in saying that. Congratulations to her and to her team, both the previous and the incoming. In terms of the overarching pressure, Anglesey, as you know, was one of the people who were on the funding floor last time. They received the additional funding that we had, just to make sure that no council went down below 0.2 per cent, I think it was. We did that because we didn't want people to have huge fluctuations in funding in the teeth of austerity. This is the ninth year of austerity. We make no pretence that any local authority in Wales is doing anything other than making horrible choices about much-needed programmes. I've said this before: we are not cutting 'nice to have' things here. These are to-the-bone cuts, so I absolutely acknowledge that. We've been working really hard with the Welsh Local Government Association to understand across the piece exactly what we're looking at. I've been working very hard with my colleague the Minister for finance to make sure that we have the best possible settlement, given where we are. I won't repeat all of where we are at the moment, but we have promises of some consequentials, but they are just promises at the moment. We've not yet seen a budget, votes in the House of Commons or anything else. We're obviously in highly volatile times, but we are going ahead and planning as much as we can for the future. We've had a good relationship with the WLGA, a very good meeting with them in both the partnership council and the finance sub-group, an open and transparent conversation about where we are with the funding and where we will be going forward. So, I can't say anything more than that at the moment; we are working very hard to do that. The other thing I would say - and I know that local government is very interested in this - we are working very hard across the Government to get the specific grants in place as fast as we can, and to make sure that there are no inadvertent cuts in budgets elsewhere as a result of movements across the Government. So, it's a quite complex piece of work, but we hope to present them with an as certain as possible and as early as possible indication of what they'll get, so that they're in the best possible place to plan for the future. But I accept what you are saying: we are absolutely in a situation where people are making really difficult choices about services going forward.
Welsh: Ie, mae gennyf rywfaint o gydymdeimlad â'r hyn y mae'r Aelod yn ei ddweud am sefyllfa awdurdodau lleol ym mhob cwr o Gymru. Hoffwn ddechrau drwy ddweud fy mod yn hapus iawn i ymuno ag ef i longyfarch Ynys Môn. Mae Llinos wedi gwneud gwaith anhygoel yno. Mae'n ddynes ifanc ysbrydoledig iawn, y math o berson y dylem fod yn denu mwy o'i thebyg i wleidyddiaeth. Mae wedi bod yn hyfryd gweithio gyda hi ar y rhaglen tai arloesol, ac maent wedi gwneud gwaith gwych, felly rwy'n hapus iawn i ymuno â chi i ddweud hynny. Llongyfarchiadau iddi hi a'i thîm, y rhai blaenorol a'r rhai a fydd yn dechrau. O ran y pwysau cyffredinol, roedd Ynys Môn, fel y gwyddoch, yn un o'r rhai a oedd ar gyllid gwaelodol y tro diwethaf. Cawsant yr arian ychwanegol a oedd gennym er mwyn gwneud yn siŵr nad oedd yr un cyngor yn gostwng yn is na 0.2 y cant, rwy'n credu. Gwnaethom hynny am nad oeddem eisiau i bobl gael amrywiadau enfawr yn eu cyllid yn wyneb cyni. Dyma'r nawfed flwyddyn o gyni. Nid ydym yn honni bod unrhyw awdurdod lleol yng Nghymru yn gwneud unrhyw beth heblaw gwneud dewisiadau erchyll am raglenni mawr eu hangen. Rwyf wedi dweud hyn o'r blaen: nid ydym yn torri pethau sy'n 'braf eu cael' yma. Mae'r toriadau hyn yn torri i'r asgwrn, felly rwy'n cydnabod hynny'n llwyr. Rydym wedi bod yn gweithio'n galed iawn gyda Chymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru i ddeall yr hyn rydym yn edrych arno yn gyffredinol. Rwyf wedi bod yn gweithio'n galed iawn gyda fy nghyd-Aelod, y Gweinidog Cyllid, i sicrhau bod gennym y setliad gorau posibl, o ystyried ein sefyllfa. Nid wyf am ailadrodd ein sefyllfa ar hyn o bryd, ond mae gennym addewidion o rai symiau canlyniadol, ond addewidion yn unig ydynt ar hyn o bryd. Nid ydym eto wedi gweld cyllideb, pleidleisiau yn Nhŷ'r Cyffredin na dim byd arall. Mae'n amlwg ein bod mewn cyfnod cyfnewidiol iawn, ond rydym yn bwrw ymlaen ac yn cynllunio cymaint ag y gallwn ar gyfer y dyfodol. Rydym wedi cael perthynas dda gyda CLlLC, a chyfarfod da iawn gyda hwy yn y cyngor partneriaeth a'r is-grŵp cyllid, sgwrs agored a thryloyw ynglŷn â ble rydym arni mewn perthynas â chyllid a ble y byddwn arni yn y dyfodol. Felly, ni allaf ddweud mwy na hynny ar hyn o bryd; rydym yn gweithio'n galed iawn i wneud hynny. Y peth arall y buaswn yn ei ddweud - a gwn fod gan lywodraeth leol ddiddordeb mawr yn hyn - rydym yn gweithio'n galed iawn ar draws y Llywodraeth i roi'r grantiau penodol ar waith cyn gynted ag y gallwn, ac i sicrhau na fydd unrhyw doriadau anfwriadol yn y gyllideb mewn mannau eraill o ganlyniad i symudiadau ar draws y Llywodraeth. Felly, mae'n waith eithaf cymhleth, ond rydym yn gobeithio cyflwyno darlun mor bendant â phosibl, mor gynnar â phosibl, o'r hyn y byddant yn ei gael, fel y gallant fod yn y sefyllfa orau bosibl i gynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol. Ond rwy'n derbyn yr hyn a ddywedwch: rydym yn sicr mewn sefyllfa lle mae pobl yn gwneud dewisiadau anodd iawn ynglŷn â gwasanaethau wrth symud ymlaen.