English: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. In this debate, I will set out the urgent need to produce a Government-backed and co-funded scheme to remediate the sub-standard installation of external and some internal wall cladding to homes in Caerau in my constituency under the 2012-13 community energy savings programme/Arbed 1 programme, and to make good the damage done to people's homes and lives. This is an issue of natural justice. Almost a decade ago, residents were promised warmer and more energy efficient homes with lower bills. In the worst cases, they've ended up with extensive damp and mould and deteriorating conditions, where the defective installations have damaged not just their homes but their lives. So, Minister, I ask the Welsh Government to step in and play a lead role in resolving these issues, because, quite simply, no-one else can now do this. I am aware that there are other examples of sub-standard insulation in other parts of Wales, and indeed in other parts of the United Kingdom, but my argument, though, to the Minister, and the argument of residents in Caerau, is that the scale of damage in Caerau, the sheer numbers of homes affected and the length of time this has been going on for, mean that a scheme is now urgently needed to resolve these issues. It is long overdue. We need to resolve this now. At the very outset, let me restate my support for the crucial importance of good-quality retrofitting of older and colder and energy-inefficient homes. In fact, in July, the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales scoped out the huge scale of the challenge, but also the huge benefits if we make the right decisions on retrofit and energy efficiency. She argued that fuel poverty could be eradicated in Wales by 2030, with a £15 billion - in her words - game-changer investment to retrofit homes to reduce energy and heating demand, saving bill payers hundreds of pounds a year in their bills and £8.3 billion a year on bills by 2040, improving and modernising Wales's huge stock of older housing, creating 26,500 jobs every year by 2030 in communities right across Wales, saving the NHS £4.4 billion by 2040, and helping the Welsh Government meet its legal duties of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Welsh: Diolch, Ddirprwy Lywydd. Yn y ddadl hon, byddaf yn nodi'r angen dybryd i gynhyrchu cynllun a ariennir ar y cyd ac a gefnogir gan y Llywodraeth i unioni gwaith nad yw'n ddigon da ar osod cladin allanol a rhywfaint o gladin waliau mewnol mewn cartrefi yng Nghaerau yn fy etholaeth o dan raglen arbed ynni yn y gymuned 2012-13/Arbed 1, ac i wneud iawn am y difrod a wnaed i gartrefi a bywydau pobl. Mater o gyfiawnder naturiol yw hwn. Bron i ddegawd yn ôl, addawyd cartrefi cynhesach a mwy effeithlon o ran eu defnydd o ynni gyda biliau is i drigolion. Yn yr achosion gwaethaf, maent bellach yn dioddef lleithder a llwydni helaeth ac amodau dirywiol, lle mae gwaith gosod diffygiol wedi niweidio nid yn unig eu cartrefi ond eu bywydau. Felly, Weinidog, gofynnaf i Lywodraeth Cymru gamu i'r adwy a chwarae rhan arweiniol i ddatrys y materion hyn, oherwydd yn syml iawn, ni all neb arall wneud hyn bellach. Rwy'n ymwybodol fod enghreifftiau eraill o insiwleiddio is-safonol mewn rhannau eraill o Gymru, ac yn wir mewn rhannau eraill o'r Deyrnas Unedig, ond fy nadl i i'r Gweinidog, serch hynny, a dadl trigolion yng Nghaerau, yw bod maint y difrod yng Nghaerau, nifer y cartrefi yr effeithiwyd arnynt a'r ffaith bod hyn wedi bod yn digwydd ers amser hir, yn golygu bod angen cynllun ar frys i ddatrys y materion hyn. Mae'n hen bryd. Mae angen inni ddatrys hyn yn awr. I ddechrau, gadewch imi ailddatgan fy nghefnogaeth i bwysigrwydd hanfodol ôl-osod o ansawdd da mewn cartrefi hŷn, oerach ac aneffeithlon o ran eu defnydd o ynni. Yn wir, ym mis Gorffennaf, nododd Comisiynydd Cenedlaethau'r Dyfodol Cymru pa mor enfawr yw'r her, ond hefyd nododd y manteision enfawr o wneud y penderfyniadau cywir ar ôl-osod ac effeithlonrwydd ynni. Dadleuodd y gellid dileu tlodi tanwydd yng Nghymru erbyn 2030, gyda £15 biliwn - yn ei geiriau hi - o fuddsoddiad trawsnewidiol i ôl-osod cartrefi er mwyn lleihau'r galw am ynni a gwresogi, gan arbed cannoedd o bunnoedd y flwyddyn i dalwyr biliau a £8.3 biliwn y flwyddyn ar filiau erbyn 2040, gan wella a moderneiddio stoc enfawr Cymru o dai hŷn, creu 26,500 o swyddi bob blwyddyn mewn cymunedau ledled Cymru erbyn 2030, arbed £4.4 biliwn i'r GIG erbyn 2040, a helpu Llywodraeth Cymru i gyflawni ei dyletswyddau cyfreithiol i sicrhau allyriadau carbon sero-net erbyn 2050.