English: It's very difficult to disagree with David Melding. Good housing is a right for all, and so thought Nye Bevan. He was the one who drove the very high standards of social housing that we were blessed with in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Obviously, we would be well served to come back to those higher standards, because those houses have lasted the test of time and are sustainable. Whilst I would agree that the Welsh Government has an ambitious housing programme, it is not sufficient to meet the needs, because for most people private housing is unaffordable and social housing is inadequate to meet the demand. I would agree with Hefin David that we cannot rely on the big six house builders to meet our needs. They simply aren't going to build for the people who most need to be housed. I just wanted to look at the programme of innovative housing that was approved by Carl Sargeant in October last year. There were 30 different projects awarded, some of them in Cardiff, and I think that this sort of project (a) tells us that there's a lot of people out there who want to build innovative housing and (b) that this can be a way of providing housing that's flexible to meet people's needs and also is energy efficient. For example, Cardiff council is building eight energy-efficient family homes in the grounds of Greenfarm Hostel in Ely, which is currently going to be used as temporary accommodation while families wait for a more permanent housing solution. But they are going to be movable so that they can be relocated to another site if they no longer are needed for the purpose for which they're going to be built at the moment. It's indicative of how long it takes to get projects off the ground, because Cardiff council is absolutely behind what is their scheme. It's now been awarded planning permission, but they still haven't got people able to live in these projects. Nevertheless, using the shipping containers that this is based on is a way of getting quick housing in order to meet the desperate need that we have. There's a similar project being developed by Cadwyn Housing Association using sea containers for one and two-bedroomed homes with solar photovoltaics - 12 homes here in Cardiff in Bute Street, on a vacant piece of land. These are excellent contributions to the desperate need, but clearly insufficient for the massive demand. You can see that there are many other projects around Wales: Pentre Solar, who already have some excellent housing in parts of Denbighshire, and they are now building homes using local timber in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. Other organisations are building to passive house standards, and these are the sorts of things we need. I just think we need to do an awful lot more of them. In terms of the land banking that's going on by the big house builders, I hope that the vacant land tax that the Welsh Government intends to bring in in the next session will help to deal with that. But meanwhile I think there are other things we might want to embrace as well. There's a Newport-based charity called Amazing Grace Spaces that is creating homes out of containers, and they've recently supplied Merthyr Valleys Homes with two fully equipped containers for families to live in, and they're in the process of converting four containers for Wrexham County Borough Council. So, I'm hoping that that sort of thing can be embraced. I was also particularly impressed with another organisations called Down to Earth, which is Swansea-based, and therefore hopefully the Minister knows about it. They're doing absolutely stunning housing - well, not housing, but building development, working with vulnerable people of one sort or another - some of them are asylum seekers, some of them are people with mental health issues - and it's helping to transform those people's lives. They are acquiring the skills to build the buildings that are going to enhance their well-being, and Down to Earth is now on the approved procurement list for the Welsh Government, so I'm hoping that health bodies will embrace projects like Down to Earth. I would urge the Minister to consider amending the building regulations to reinstate the zero-carbon standards introduced by Gordon Brown as Prime Minister and then abolished by George Osborne, because we cannot be building more homes that we then need to retrofit. But I look forward to hearing the Minister's response.
Welsh: Mae'n anodd iawn anghytuno â David Melding. Mae tai da yn hawl i bawb, a dyna oedd barn Aneurin Bevan. Ef oedd yn gyfrifol am y tai cymdeithasol o safon uchel iawn y cawsom ni ein bendithio â nhw ar ddiwedd y 1940au a dechrau'r 1950au. Yn amlwg, byddai'n beth da inni allu cyrraedd y safonau uwch hynny unwaith eto, oherwydd mae'r tai hynny wedi goroesi treigl amser ac maen nhw'n gynaliadwy. Er y byddwn i'n cytuno bod gan Lywodraeth Cymru raglen uchelgeisiol ar dai, nid yw'n ddigon i ddiwallu'r anghenion, oherwydd i'r rhan fwyaf o bobl dydy tai preifat ddim yn fforddiadwy a does dim digon o dai cymdeithasol i ateb y galw. Rwy'n cytuno â Hefin David na allwn ni ddibynnu ar y chwe adeiladwr tai mawr i ddiwallu ein hanghenion. Yn syml, dydyn nhw ddim yn mynd i adeiladu ar gyfer y bobl sydd fwyaf angen eu cartrefu. Roeddwn i eisiau edrych ar y rhaglen tai arloesol a gymeradwywyd gan Carl Sargeant ym mis Hydref y llynedd. Cafodd 30 o wahanol brosiectau eu dyfarnu, rhai ohonyn nhw yng Nghaerdydd, ac rwy'n credu bod y math hwn o brosiect (a) yn dweud wrthym ni bod llawer o bobl eisiau adeiladu tai arloesol a (b) y gall hyn fod yn ffordd o ddarparu tai sy'n hyblyg i fodloni anghenion pobl ac sydd hefyd yn effeithlon o ran ynni. Er enghraifft, mae cyngor Caerdydd yn adeiladu wyth cartref teuluol sy'n effeithlon o ran ynni ar dir Hostel Greenfarm yn Nhrelái, sydd ar hyn o bryd yn mynd i gael ei ddefnyddio fel llety dros dro tra bod teuluoedd yn aros am ateb mwy parhaol o ran tai. Ond bydd y rhain yn symudol fel bod modd eu symud nhw i safle arall os nad oes eu hangen mwyach ar gyfer y diben y maen nhw'n mynd i gael eu hadeiladu ar ei gyfer ar hyn o bryd. Mae'n arwydd o ba mor hir mae'n ei gymryd i roi prosiectau ar waith, oherwydd mae cyngor Caerdydd yn gwbl gefnogol i'r cynllun hwn o'u heiddio. Mae nawr wedi cael caniatâd cynllunio, ond does ganddyn nhw ddim pobl sy'n gallu byw yn y prosiectau hyn o hyd. Serch hynny, mae defnyddio'r cynwysyddion llongau y mae hyn yn seiliedig arno yn ffordd o ddarparu tai yn gyflym er mwyn ateb yr angen dybryd sydd gennyn ni. Mae Cymdeithas Tai Cadwyn yn datblygu prosiect tebyg gan ddefnyddio cynwysyddion môr yn gartrefi un a dwy ystafell wely gyda systemau solar ffotofoltäig - 12 cartref yma yng Nghaerdydd yn Stryd Bute, ar ddarn gwag o dir. Mae'r rhain yn gyfraniadau ardderchog at yr angen dirfawr, ond yn amlwg yn annigonol i ateb y galw aruthrol. Fe allwch chi weld bod llawer o brosiectau eraill o mewn gwahanol rannau o Gymru: Pentre Solar, sydd eisoes wedi adeiladu tai rhagorol mewn rhannau o sir Ddinbych, ac sydd nawr yn adeiladu cartrefi gan ddefnyddio coed lleol yn sir Gaerfyrddin a sir Benfro. Mae sefydliadau eraill yn adeiladu i safonau'r hyn a adwaenir wrth yr enw tŷ goddefol, a dyma'r mathau o bethau sydd eu hangen, ond rwy'n credu bod angen inni wneud llawer iawn mwy ohonynt. O ran y ffordd y mae'r adeiladwyr tai mawr yn bancio tir, rwy'n gobeithio y bydd y dreth ar dir gwag y mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn bwriadu ei chyflwyno yn y sesiwn nesaf yn helpu i ymdrin â hynny. Ond yn y cyfamser rwy'n credu bod yna bethau eraill y gallem ni eu croesawu yn ogystal. Mae elusen yng Nghasnewydd o'r enw Amazing Grace Spaces sy'n creu cartrefi o gynwysyddion, ac yn ddiweddar maen nhw wedi cyflenwi dau gynhwysydd wedi'u cyfarparu'n llawn i Gartrefi Cymoedd Merthyr i deuluoedd fyw ynddyn nhw, ac maen nhw wrthi'n trosi pedwar cynhwysydd ar gyfer Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Wrecsam. Felly, rwy'n gobeithio y gellir croesawu'r math hwnnw o beth. Sefydliad arall sydd wedi gwneud argraff fawr arnaf i yw Down to Earth, sydd wedi'i leoli yn Abertawe, ac felly gobeithio bod y Gweinidog yn gwybod amdano. Maen nhw'n gwneud tai hollol syfrdanol - wel, nid tai, ond datblygiadau adeiladu, gan weithio gyda phobl sy'n agored i niwed o ryw fath neu'i gilydd - rhai ohonyn nhw yn geiswyr lloches, rhai ohonyn nhw yn bobl â phroblemau iechyd meddwl - ac mae'r cynllun helpu i drawsnewid bywydau'r bobl hynny. Maen nhw'n caffael y sgiliau i godi'r adeiladau sy'n mynd i wella eu lles, ac mae Down to Earth bellach ar restr gaffael gymeradwy Llywodraeth Cymru, felly rwy'n gobeithio y bydd cyrff iechyd yn croesawu prosiectau fel Down to Earth. Rwy'n annog y Gweinidog i ystyried addasu'r rheoliadau adeiladu i adfer y safonau di-garbon a gyflwynwyd gan Gordon Brown pan roedd yntau'n Brif Weinidog ac yna a ddiddymwyd gan George Osborne, oherwydd allwn ni ddim adeiladu mwy o gartrefi y bydd angen inni wedyn ôl-osod cyfarpar ynddyn nhw. Ond rwy'n edrych ymlaen at glywed ymateb y Gweinidog.