English: Can I thank you, John, for your statement, and give a very warm welcome to the work that you are going to be undertaking on supporting refugees, asylum seekers and unaccompanied children? Torfaen local authority has been punching above its weight in terms of taking Syrian refugees, and I'm very proud of the record of that council and also very proud that, yesterday, the council unanimously agreed to take to cabinet a paper to become one of the first authorities in Wales to take unaccompanied children. So, I think that is something that we can all be proud of and commend. It has already been highlighted, though, that there is variation between local authorities in terms of engagement with these schemes, and I wanted to ask how you see the committee's role in terms of bringing pressure to bear, both on Welsh Government and on local authorities, to improve the engagement with those schemes across Wales. I was also particularly pleased to see the reference to advocacy in your statement. The children's committee is going to be conducting a short inquiry on advocacy, because there are still some issues that we're concerned about with delivery across Wales, and I think it would be useful if the two committees could co-operate on that. You referred to Communities First; again, I'm really pleased that you're going to be looking at Communities First. You'll have heard me say when the Minister made his announcement recently that, in Torfaen, our record of delivery on Communities First has been excellent, including on the kind of hard outputs like employability. I wondered if you could say a bit more about how you intend to scrutinise the Government's decision to phase out Communities First. I think it is absolutely essential that we retain the excellent parts of that programme going forward, and I'm grateful to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government for his assurance on that earlier. I would also be interested to know how you intend to engage with the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children about the consultation. We're still awaiting details of the consultation with external and internal stakeholders, and I'd be interested to know what input the committee is going to have into that.
Welsh: A gaf fi ddiolch i chi, John, am eich datganiad, a chroesawu'n gynnes iawn y gwaith y byddwch yn ei wneud ar gefnogi ffoaduriaid, ceiswyr lloches a phlant ar eu pen eu hunain? Mae awdurdod lleol Torfaen wedi bod yn cyflawni'n well na'r disgwyl o ran derbyn ffoaduriaid o Syria, ac rwy'n falch iawn o hanes blaenorol y cyngor hwnnw, a hefyd yn falch iawn fod y cyngor, ddoe, wedi cytuno'n unfrydol i gyflwyno papur i'r cabinet i ddod yn un o'r awdurdodau cyntaf yng Nghymru i dderbyn plant ar eu pen eu hunain. Felly, credaf fod hynny'n rhywbeth y gallwn oll fod yn falch ohono a'i ganmol. Amlygwyd eisoes, fodd bynnag, fod awdurdodau lleol yn amrywio o ran eu hymwneud â'r cynlluniau hyn, ac roeddwn am ofyn sut rydych yn gweld rôl y pwyllgor o ran pwyso ar Lywodraeth Cymru ac ar awdurdodau lleol, i wella ymgysylltiad â'r cynlluniau hynny ledled Cymru. Roeddwn yn arbennig o falch o weld y cyfeiriad at eiriolaeth yn eich datganiad hefyd. Bydd y pwyllgor plant yn cynnal ymchwiliad byr ar eiriolaeth, gan fod rhai materion rydym yn dal i boeni yn eu cylch mewn perthynas â chyflawni ledled Cymru, a chredaf y byddai'n ddefnyddiol pe gallai'r ddau bwyllgor gydweithredu ar hynny. Fe gyfeirioch at Cymunedau yn Gyntaf; eto, rwy'n falch iawn y byddwch yn edrych ar Cymunedau yn Gyntaf. Byddwch wedi fy nghlywed yn dweud, pan wnaeth y Gweinidog ei gyhoeddiad yn ddiweddar, fod ein hanes yn Nhorfaen o ran cyflawniad Cymunedau yn Gyntaf wedi bod yn wych, gan gynnwys o ran y math o allbynnau pendant fel cyflogadwyedd. Tybed a allech ddweud ychydig yn rhagor wrthym ynglŷn â sut rydych yn bwriadu craffu ar benderfyniad y Llywodraeth i ddirwyn Cymunedau yn Gyntaf i ben. Credaf ei bod yn gwbl hanfodol ein bod yn cadw'r rhannau ardderchog o'r rhaglen honno yn y dyfodol, ac rwy'n ddiolchgar i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gyllid a Llywodraeth Leol am ei sicrwydd ynglŷn â hynny yn gynharach. Hoffwn wybod hefyd sut rydych yn bwriadu ymgysylltu ag Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Gymunedau a Phlant ynglŷn â'r ymgynghoriad. Rydym yn dal i ddisgwyl am fanylion yr ymgynghoriad gyda rhanddeiliaid allanol a mewnol, a hoffwn wybod beth fydd cyfraniad y pwyllgor yn hynny o beth.