English: The Counsel General, the Minister, like me, will have been on many protests of different types over the years. And, in fact, over the decades, and indeed over generations and centuries, in Wales, there has been a vigorous tradition of public protest, and it's right that there should have been. From the earliest Greenham Common protestors drawn from Wales, including my own late friend and reliable critic, Eunice Stallard from Ystalyfera, to Ann Clwyd MP joining Tyrone O'Sullivan and miners in a sit-in deep underground at Tower Colliery, the Trawsfynydd protestors, Welsh language campaigners, anti-racism protestors, more recently environmental protestors, too, these campaigns have always led to heated debate and sometimes to controversy, and they've often inconvenienced people deeply. Indeed, Dirprwy Lywydd, many of us will recall the go-slow petrol protests and blockades led by a farmer from north Wales - the upstanding chair of the Flintshire branch of the Farmers Union of Wales, a member of the council of the Royal Welsh Show, the Welsh Pony and Cob Society, who then became an Assembly Member here - the late Brynle Jones. He was also part of the dumping of 40 tonnes of meat into the sea off Holyhead, in his version of the Boston Tea Party. So, what does he think, what does the Minister think that Brynle Jones, Eunice Stallard, Tyrone O'Sullivan or the protestors for the Welsh language or many others would think of the sweeping powers that UK Government are now taking for themselves to block public protest? And frankly, is it even needed when the powers they already have are so wide ranging?
Welsh: Bydd y Cwnsler Cyffredinol, fel finnau, wedi bod mewn sawl protest o wahanol fathau dros y blynyddoedd. Ac mewn gwirionedd, dros y degawdau, ac yn wir dros genedlaethau a chanrifoedd yng Nghymru, gwelwyd traddodiad brwd o brotestio cyhoeddus, ac mae'n iawn mai felly y bu. O'r protestwyr cynharaf yng Nghomin Greenham a ddaeth o Gymru, gan gynnwys fy niweddar gyfaill a'm beirniad dibynadwy, Eunice Stallard o Ystalyfera, i Ann Clwyd AS yn ymuno â Tyrone O'Sullivan a glowyr mewn protest danddaearol ym mhwll glo'r Tower, protestwyr Trawsfynydd, ymgyrchwyr dros y Gymraeg, protestwyr gwrth-hiliaeth, protestwyr amgylcheddol yn fwy diweddar hefyd, mae'r ymgyrchoedd hyn bob amser wedi arwain at ddadlau tanbaid, ac maent yn aml wedi peri anghyfleustra mawr i bobl. Yn wir, Ddirprwy Lywydd, bydd llawer ohonom yn cofio'r protestiadau petrol drwy yrru'n araf a chodi rhwystrau ar y ffyrdd dan arweiniad ffermwr o ogledd Cymru - cadeirydd cangen sir y Fflint o Undeb Amaethwyr Cymru, aelod o gyngor y Sioe Frenhinol, Cymdeithas y Merlod a'r Cobiau Cymreig, a ddaeth wedyn yn Aelod Cynulliad yma - y diweddar Brynle Jones. Roedd hefyd yn rhan o brotest a waredodd 40 tunnell o gig i'r môr oddi ar Gaergybi, yn ei fersiwn ef o De Parti Boston. Felly, beth mae'n ei feddwl, beth mae'r Gweinidog yn ei feddwl y byddai Brynle Jones, Eunice Stallard, Tyrone O'Sullivan neu'r protestwyr dros y Gymraeg neu sawl un arall yn ei feddwl o'r pwerau ysgubol y mae Llywodraeth y DU bellach yn eu cymryd iddynt eu hunain i rwystro protestio cyhoeddus? Ac a bod yn onest, a oes ei angen hyd yn oed, pan fo'r pwerau sydd ganddynt eisoes mor eang?