English: First of all, I'd like to thank Lynne Neagle and her committee for this report. Lynne, you are fearless and tough and I have great admiration and total respect for you. I think the children and young people's committee is in very good hands, and if it was up to me I think the children of Wales would be good and safe in your hands too. I think the 'Mind over matter' report has got to the heart of the issues, they've listened to the voices of the experts, they've listened to practitioners, young people and organisations, and they have made meaty and insightful worthwhile recommendations. I think that they are recommendations that deserve to be listened to. I thought very hard about how I was going to pitch my contribution to this debate today. Would I reflect the chorus of shock and dismay of the committee and of witnesses with regard to the Government response, or should I talk about the effect that this has on children and young people in my particular constituency - the kids we've tried to rescue, my team and I, in my little office in Tenby with the help of county councils, both Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire - or would I talk about the multiple suicides that we've seen in Pembrokeshire over the last few years and the ongoing coroner's questions, or should I just do a forensic analysis of the Welsh Government responses? I've decided I'm not going to do any of that. 'Mind over matter', perinatal mental health, adoption services, children and adolescent mental health, child obesity, attendance and behaviour, adoption, advocacy services for children, placement of kids in care, youth justice, not in employment or education, autism in further education, dyslexia, post 19 with additional learning needs, mental health services: 15 committee reports by three different committees, each and every one of them since I've been an Assembly Member. What does perinatal mental health have to do with what we're talking about today? Well, let me tell you. Recommendation 10, recommendation 22, recommendation 26, they all point to what David Melding encapsulated so well: that if we do not help at the very, very beginning, if we do not get it right at the very, very beginning, then all we're going to do is spend the rest of our time picking up the pieces. And it's a quarter - a quarter - of our population that is in distress at some point or another. Ninety eight per cent of the children who are not in education officially have got mental health issues of the type that this report talks about. No, they're not psychotic in a way that we can medicalise, but they have all the other issues. They've been badly let down. They have been neglected. They have been abused. They are lost, they're confused, they don't know where to go to, they have emotional and behavioural problems. In 11 years - I thought it was 10 years but, Darren Millar, you mentioned 11 years, and we came in at the same time - in 11 years, 15 reports, all of which touch on the fact that we have not got it right. What does it take? Because I say this to you: we have too many children out of education, we've got too many kids unable to cope with twenty-first century life, we've got too many wounded kids in our nation who will grow into adults who will not fulfil their potential, who will not be able to do all the things that those of us in this Chamber are lucky enough to do. How can we develop our maturity as a nation? How can Wales step forward into the twenty-first century when we leave so many people by the wayside? How can we hope to improve people's lifestyles? Because if we don't get them a firm bedrock to build on, how will we, Wales, afford to pick up the pieces in the years to come? The Government response, I thought, was off-hand. I thought it was unengaged, Cabinet Secretaries, and in parts I thought it was downright resentful. I felt there was a real whiff of inertia. Welsh Government, you are out of step with Assembly Members of all parties, including Members of Welsh Labour. The kickback to this report has been phenomenal - the children's commissioner, the Samaritans, the NSPCC, the psychologists. If you had any sense, you'd put Lynne Neagle in charge of a task and finish group to drive this kind of report through and make it happen, because my kids, your kids and your grandkids need this. These people up here, they need this change now.
Welsh: Yn gyntaf oll, hoffwn ddiolch i Lynne Neagle a'i phwyllgor am yr adroddiad hwn. Lynne, rydych yn eofn ac yn gadarn ac mae gennyf edmygedd a pharch llwyr tuag atoch. Credaf fod y pwyllgor plant a phobl ifanc mewn dwylo da iawn, a buaswn yn dweud fy mod yn credu y byddai plant Cymru yn iawn ac yn ddiogel yn eich dwylo hefyd. Credaf fod adroddiad 'Cadernid Meddwl' yn mynd i wraidd y problemau, maent wedi gwrando ar leisiau'r arbenigwyr, maent wedi gwrando ar yr ymarferwyr ac ar sefydliadau pobl ifanc, ac maent wedi gwneud argymhellion swmpus, craff a gwerth chweil. Credaf eu bod yn argymhellion sy'n haeddu cael eu clywed. Meddyliais yn galed iawn beth fyddai cywair fy nghyfraniad i'r ddadl hon heddiw. A fyddwn yn adlewyrchu'r corws o sioc a siom gan y pwyllgor a chan dystion ynglŷn ag ymateb y Llywodraeth, neu a ddylwn sôn am yr effaith a gaiff hyn ar blant a phobl ifanc yn fy etholaeth - y plant rydym wedi ceisio eu hachub, fy nhîm a minnau, yn fy swyddfa fach yn Ninbych-y-pysgod gyda chymorth cynghorau sir, Cyngor Sir Caerfyrddin a Chyngor Sir Penfro - neu a fyddwn yn sôn am yr holl achosion o hunanladdiad a welsom yn Sir Benfro dros y blynyddoedd diwethaf a chwestiynau parhaus y crwner, neu a ddylwn wneud dadansoddiad fforensig o ymatebion Llywodraeth Cymru? Rwyf wedi penderfynu nad wyf am wneud dim o hynny. 'Cadernid Meddwl', iechyd meddwl amenedigol, gwasanaethau mabwysiadu, iechyd meddwl plant a phobl ifanc, gordewdra ymhlith plant, presenoldeb ac ymddygiad, mabwysiadu, gwasanaethau eiriolaeth ar gyfer plant, lleoli plant mewn gofal, cyfiawnder ieuenctid, rhai nad ydynt mewn cyflogaeth neu addysg, awtistiaeth mewn addysg bellach, dyslecsia, rhai ôl-19 ag anghenion dysgu ychwanegol, gwasanaethau iechyd meddwl: 15 o adroddiadau pwyllgor gan dri phwyllgor gwahanol, a phob un ohonynt ers i mi fod yn Aelod Cynulliad. Beth sydd gan iechyd meddwl amenedigol i'w wneud â'r hyn rydym yn sôn amdano heddiw? Wel, gadewch imi ddweud wrthych. Argymhelliad 10, argymhelliad 22, argymhelliad 26, maent i gyd yn cyfeirio at yr hyn a grynhowyd mor dda gan David Melding: sef os na fyddwn yn cynorthwyo ar y dechrau un, os na chawn bethau'n iawn ar y dechrau un, y cyfan a wnawn yw treulio gweddill ein hamser yn codi'r darnau. Ac mae chwarter - chwarter - ein poblogaeth mewn trallod ar ryw adeg neu'i gilydd. Mae gan 98 y cant o'r plant nad ydynt mewn addysg yn swyddogol broblemau iechyd meddwl o'r math y mae'r adroddiad hwn yn sôn amdanynt. Na, nid ydynt yn seicotig mewn modd y gallwn ei drin yn feddygol, ond mae ganddynt yr holl broblemau eraill. Gwnaethpwyd cam â hwy. Maent wedi'u hesgeuluso. Maent wedi'u cam-drin. Maent wedi'u colli, maent wedi drysu, nid ydynt yn gwybod ble i fynd, mae ganddynt broblemau emosiynol ac ymddygiadol. Mewn 11 mlynedd - roeddwn yn meddwl mai 10 mlynedd oedd hi ond fe sonioch chi am 11 mlynedd, Darren Millar, a daethom yma yr un pryd - ers 11 mlynedd, 15 o adroddiadau, pob un ohonynt yn cyffwrdd ar y ffaith nad ydym wedi ei gael yn iawn. Beth mae'n ei gymryd? Oherwydd dywedaf hyn wrthych: mae gennym ormod o blant allan o addysg, mae gennym ormod o blant yn methu ymdopi â bywyd yn yr unfed ganrif ar hugain, mae gennym ormod o blant clwyfedig yn ein gwlad a fydd yn tyfu'n oedolion na fydd yn cyflawni eu potensial, na fydd yn gallu gwneud yr holl bethau rydym ni yn y Siambr hon yn ddigon ffodus i'w gwneud. Sut y gallwn ddatblygu ein haeddfedrwydd fel gwlad? Sut y gall Cymru gamu ymlaen i'r unfed ganrif ar hugain pan ydym yn gadael cymaint o bobl ar fin y ffordd? Sut y gallwn obeithio gwella ffordd o fyw pobl? Oherwydd os na rown sylfaen gadarn iddynt adeiladu arni, sut y byddwn ni, Cymru, yn gallu fforddio codi'r darnau yn y blynyddoedd i ddod? Roeddwn yn meddwl bod ymateb y Llywodraeth yn llugoer. Roeddwn yn meddwl ei fod yn ddi-hid, Ysgrifenyddion y Cabinet, ac mewn rhannau roeddwn yn credu ei fod yn gwbl ddirmygus. Roeddwn yn teimlo bod yna awgrym go iawn o syrthni. Lywodraeth Cymru, rydych yn tynnu'n groes i Aelodau Cynulliad o bob plaid, gan gynnwys Aelodau o Lafur Cymru. Mae'r adwaith i'r adroddiad hwn wedi bod yn rhyfeddol - y comisiynydd plant, y Samariaid, yr NSPCC, y seicolegwyr. Pe bai gennych unrhyw synnwyr, byddech yn gwneud Lynne Neagle yn gyfrifol am grŵp gorchwyl a gorffen i yrru'r math hwn o adroddiad drwodd a gwneud iddo ddigwydd, oherwydd mae fy mhlant i, eich plant chi a'ch wyron angen hwn. Y bobl hyn i fyny yma, maent angen y newid hwn yn awr.