English: Llywydd, I thank Delyth Jewell for that important point. She will knew that some analysts say that loneliness should be added to the five giants that Beveridge set out at the start of the welfare state as one of the great social policy challenges of our time. I thank her for what she said about the importance of the Red Cross. She will know that, over last winter, the Welsh Government funded a series of actions by the Red Cross itself to assist in returning people to their own homes when they were discharged - sometimes after a brief period just visiting an A&E department; sometimes after a stay in hospital - precisely to make sure that those people who are lonely and isolated had another human being alongside them when they returned to their own homes, and were helped to settle in and make sure they had everything that they needed. Can I commend as well the work of the Older People's Commissioner for Wales in this area? I know my colleague Julie Morgan has been working closely with the commissioner and her office to put services in place to combat loneliness amongst old people. And sometimes this is a very simple set of arrangements, in the field that Peter Fox pointed to, of the voluntary and the third sector - just a simple phone call to somebody who doesn't hear another human voice from one day to the next, and just takes an interest in how they are doing and what they are going through, can make a real difference to people. And there are many, many volunteers now, in all parts of Wales, who take part in those simple but effective measures that can make a difference to loneliness.
Welsh: Llywydd, diolch i Delyth Jewell am y pwynt pwysig yna. Bydd hi'n gwybod bod rhai dadansoddwyr yn dweud y dylid ychwanegu unigrwydd at y pum cawr a nodwyd gan Beveridge ar ddechrau'r wladwriaeth les yn un o heriau polisi cymdeithasol mawr ein hoes. Rwy'n diolch iddi am yr hyn a ddywedodd am bwysigrwydd y Groes Goch. Bydd yn gwybod bod Llywodraeth Cymru, dros y gaeaf diwethaf, wedi ariannu cyfres o gamau gweithredu gan y Groes Goch ei hun i helpu i ddychwelyd pobl i'w cartrefi eu hunain ar ôl iddyn nhw gael eu rhyddhau - weithiau ar ôl cyfnod byr yn ymweld ag adran damweiniau ac achosion brys; weithiau ar ôl aros yn yr ysbyty - am yr union reswm o wneud yn siŵr bod gan y bobl hynny sy'n unig ac yn ynysig berson arall ochr yn ochr â nhw pan oedden nhw'n dychwelyd i'w cartrefi eu hunain, ac yn cael eu helpu i ymgartrefu a gwneud yn siŵr bod ganddyn nhw bopeth yr oedd ei angen arnyn nhw. A gaf i gymeradwyo hefyd waith Comisiynydd Pobl Hŷn Cymru yn y maes hwn? Rwy'n gwybod bod fy nghyd-Weinidog Julie Morgan wedi bod yn gweithio yn agos gyda'r comisiynydd a'i swyddfa i roi gwasanaethau ar waith i fynd i'r afael ag unigrwydd ymhlith hen bobl. Ac weithiau mae hyn yn gyfres syml iawn o drefniadau, yn y maes y cyfeiriodd Peter Fox ato, o'r sector gwirfoddol a'r trydydd sector - gall dim mwy na galwad ffôn syml i rywun nad yw'n clywed llais dynol arall o un diwrnod i'r llall, a chymryd diddordeb mewn sut mae'n teimlo a'r hyn y mae'n mynd drwyddo, wneud gwahaniaeth gwirioneddol i bobl. A cheir llawer iawn o wirfoddolwyr erbyn hyn, ym mhob rhan o Gymru, sy'n cymryd rhan yn y mesurau syml ond effeithiol hynny a all wneud gwahaniaeth i unigrwydd.