English: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate today on a motion, in fairness, that is merely pointing out the obvious, really. Last week's PISA results were deeply, deeply disappointing, and I think across the political spectrum in this Chamber, all Members - . David has made the point today about how unsatisfactory and upsetting, I would suggest, those results were, because we've had Minister after Minister coming to this Chamber from the Labour Party, who have been the Cabinet Secretaries or Ministers for the first 17 years of devolution, and in light of poor performances in the past, have given assurances to this Chamber. I merely repeat some of those assurances that were given, first by Leighton Andrews, who talked in 2010 of honesty, leadership and a new approach to accountability. And he set the goal for being in the top 20. That was ambitious, but at least it was a goal for the whole of the Government to work to. You can't criticise anyone for being ambitious, and surely a Government sitting here in the first couple of months of its term should be setting out clear goals of what it wants to achieve when the next set of PISA results are taken in 2018. That is what our job as the opposition is now - to try and understand exactly where the Government are going, in light of the results that we had last week, with their education policy. We've seen Schools Challenge Cymru put to one side, which was a cornerstone of the previous Cabinet Secretary/Minister's education challenge, shall we say, to schools, and yet that has been pushed to one side because it doesn't fit the purpose of the new Cabinet Secretary - and that's your role, obviously, to set out the education strategy of this Government. I do hope that the Cabinet Secretary, in responding to this debate, will shine more light on the road map forward now that will actually get our standards moving up the league table, because we are still behind where we were in 2010, with reading and science falling back, and maths - a welcome uplift, but it really had nowhere else to go, to be honest with you. If that's what the Labour Party are celebrating, we are still behind in maths where we were in 2006. So, that is hardly a pat on the back, is it? In fairness to Huw Lewis, who was sitting at this front bench here, immediately in that chair there, he said: 'I expect to see the impact of our reforms reflected in the next set of results. They're ambitious and I believe they will have a lasting, sustainable and positive effect on education in Wales.' Those were his words, in fairness, and we took him at his word and we believed that those reforms would make the - [Interruption.] I'll take the intervention in a minute, Lee - difference that would see the school standards improving, and when we are benchmarked against the 0.5 million pupils across the world who take these tests in 72 countries, Wales would start to be doing better. I'll take the intervention.
Welsh: Rwy'n croesawu'r cyfle i gyfrannu at y ddadl hon heddiw ar gynnig sydd, er tegwch, ond yn tynnu sylw at yr hyn sy'n amlwg, mewn gwirionedd. Roedd canlyniadau PISA yr wythnos diwethaf yn destun siom enfawr, ac rwy'n meddwl bod yr holl Aelodau ar draws y sbectrwm gwleidyddol yn y Siambr hon - . Mae David wedi gwneud y pwynt heddiw ynglŷn â pha mor anfoddhaol a gofidus, buaswn yn awgrymu, oedd y canlyniadau hynny, oherwydd rydym wedi cael Gweinidog ar ôl Gweinidog yn dod i'r Siambr hon o'r Blaid Lafur, sydd wedi bod yn Ysgrifenyddion Cabinet neu Weinidogion am 17 mlynedd cyntaf datganoli, ac yng ngoleuni perfformiadau gwael yn y gorffennol, maent wedi rhoi geiriau o sicrwydd i'r Siambr hon. Rwyf am ailadrodd rhai o'r geiriau hynny o sicrwydd a roddwyd, yn gyntaf gan Leighton Andrews, a siaradodd yn 2010 am onestrwydd, arweiniad ac ymagwedd newydd tuag at atebolrwydd. Ac fe osododd nod i fod yn y 20 uchaf Roedd hynny'n uchelgeisiol, ond o leiaf roedd yn nod i'r holl Lywodraeth weithio tuag ato. Ni allwch feirniadu neb am fod yn uchelgeisiol, ac yn sicr dylai Llywodraeth sy'n eistedd yma yn ychydig fisoedd cyntaf ei thymor fod yn gosod nodau clir o ran yr hyn y mae am ei gyflawni pan fydd y set nesaf o ganlyniadau PISA yn cael eu cymryd yn 2018. Dyna yw ein gwaith fel yr wrthblaid yn awr - ceisio deall yn union i ble y mae'r Llywodraeth yn mynd, yn wyneb y canlyniadau a gawsom yr wythnos diwethaf, gyda'u polisi addysg. Rydym wedi gweld Her Ysgolion Cymru yn cael ei roi naill ochr, cynllun a oedd yn gonglfaen i her addysg yr Ysgrifennydd Cabinet/Gweinidog blaenorol, gawn ni ddweud, i ysgolion, ac eto mae hwnnw wedi cael ei wthio naill ochr am nad yw'n cyd-fynd â diben yr Ysgrifennydd Cabinet newydd - a dyna yw eich rôl chi, yn amlwg, sef gosod allan strategaeth addysg y Llywodraeth hon. Rwy'n gobeithio y bydd Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet, wrth ymateb i'r ddadl hon, yn taflu rhagor o oleuni ar y daith ymlaen yn awr a fydd yn sicrhau mewn gwirionedd fod ein safonau yn symud i fyny tabl y gynghrair, oherwydd rydym yn dal i fod y tu ôl i ble roeddem yn 2010, gyda darllen a gwyddoniaeth yn syrthio ar ei hôl hi, a mathemateg - gwelliant i'w groesawu, ond doedd ganddo unman arall i fynd, i fod yn onest gyda chi. Os mai dyna mae'r Blaid Lafur yn ei ddathlu, rydym yn dal i fod y tu ôl i ble roeddem yn 2006 mewn mathemateg. Felly, go brin fod hynny'n rheswm i longyfarch. Er tegwch i Huw Lewis, a oedd yn eistedd ar y fainc flaen yma, yn yr union gadair honno, fe ddywedodd: Rwy'n disgwyl gweld effaith ein diwygiadau yn cael eu hadlewyrchu yn y set nesaf o ganlyniadau. Maent yn uchelgeisiol ac rwy'n credu y byddant yn cael effaith barhaol, gynaliadwy a chadarnhaol ar addysg yng Nghymru. Dyna oedd ei eiriau, a bod yn deg, ac fe wnaethom ei gredu, a chredu y byddai'r diwygiadau hynny'n gwneud y - [Torri ar draws.] Fe gymeraf yr ymyriad mewn munud, Lee - gwahaniaeth a fyddai'n arwain at wella safonau ysgolion, a phan gawn ein meincnodi yn erbyn y 0.5 miliwn o ddisgyblion ar draws y byd sy'n sefyll y profion hyn mewn 72 o wledydd, byddai Cymru'n dechrau gwneud yn well. Fe gymeraf yr ymyriad.