Wrth ymateb i’r rhaglen lywodraethol a’r rhaglen ddeddfwriaethol, rydw i’n meddwl bod rhaid ategu pa mor anhapus neu anfodlon rwy’n teimlo ar hyn o bryd, gydag ymateb y Llywodraeth i’r sefyllfa sydd wedi deillio o’r penderfyniad i ymadael â’r Undeb Ewropeaidd. Rwy’n meddwl ei bod yn her go iawn, nid yn unig i’r Blaid Lafur ond i’r Senedd gyfan, ac mae’n her go iawn i’r broses ddatganoli. Achos oni bai ein bod ni’n rheoli’r broses yma mewn ffordd sy’n ymddangos yn ddiogel i’r cyhoedd, sy’n dangos bod buddiannau Cymru yn cael eu gosod yn gyntaf, o flaen buddiannau unrhyw blaid sy’n cael ei chynrychioli yn y Senedd hon, rwy’n credu bod pobl yn mynd i golli ffydd yn yr hyn rŷm ni’n gallu ei gyflawni fel Senedd ac fel Llywodraeth.

Mae’r ffaith bod y Llywodraeth, fel dywedodd Leanne Wood, ar ôl oedi dros yr haf er mwyn cyhoeddi rhaglen lywodraethol er mwyn delio â’r ffaith ein bod yn tynnu allan o’r Undeb Ewropeaidd, wedyn yn cynhyrchu dogfen mor dila ac mor denau yn siomedig. Mae’n amlwg bod y Llywodraeth am osgoi unrhyw ymgais, fel yn yr un flaenorol, mae’n rhaid bod yn onest, i osod targedau pendant iawn a allai gael eu defnyddio’n wleidyddol yn eu herbyn nhw. Mae’n bosib eu bod nhw’n gwneud hynny oherwydd eu bod nhw’n teimlo’n ansicr, yn deillio o’r penderfyniad i adael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd, ond rydw i’n meddwl ei bod hi’n siomedig, serch hynny, nad yw effaith hynny yn llwyr wedi’i hadlewyrchu yn y ddogfen. Mae yna nifer o bethau, fel y dywedodd Leanne Wood, y byddwn i’n dymuno gweld y Llywodraeth yn ymateb yn llawer mwy positif iddyn nhw wrth fynd ymlaen.

I just want to ask a couple of key questions as well around the few facts and figures that are in this programme for government and what they actually mean. There’s a commitment to an investment of £100 million to drive up school standards, but it’s not clear whether this is an extra £100 million, or includes the already increasing pupil deprivation grant, and whether the cost of reducing infant class sizes, which is also a commitment, has been taken into account.

We are still to see more detail on the Government’s own proposals for a national infrastructure commission for Wales. Plaid Cymru launched our proposals yesterday. And I think the people of Wales—. If we’re not going to have a Welsh Development Agency for the twenty-first century—that doesn’t seem to find favour with this Government, but I think the people of Wales, nevertheless, do expect new and innovative ways of supporting business in order to meet the challenges of Brexit and the challenges that we face.

I think it’s a very thin programme for government on the environment. I would agree with what Jenny Rathbone has said, and I think losing sight of that 2020 target, even though we were going to miss it anyway, does mean that we’ve lost sight of aligning Government together with the environment Act and the future generations Act to really bear down on our greenhouse gas emissions, and really work to enhance biodiversity and local ecosystem services as well. There’s an opportunity, of course, with the decision to withdraw from the European Union, to align our agriculture and agri-environment schemes together, to get rid of some false distinctions that inevitably emerge when you’re dealing with a 28-country model, and to have something that’s more tailored for Wales. But in order to have that, we must be absolutely sure that we get two things from the Westminster Government. The first is that any environmental and fisheries legislation is transferred in the great repeal Act, which doesn’t seem to be repealing anything at the moment—but it is transferred to Wales, where appropriate, and we don’t see any land grabs from the Westminster Government on that. The second element, which I think we debated earlier today, is that we don’t see any fiscal grabs on the money that Wales has deserved and Wales should have as a result of the return of the contribution of the UK Government to the European Union. Because, as we know, our farming sector, which is the sector that protects our environment, and spends in our local economies, is responsible for something like nearly 10 per cent of the CAP expenditure of the United Kingdom. A Barnettised equivalent of that would be around 5 per cent, and we’d lose out enormously.

Having said that we support the legislative programme, I think there are two or three things that are missing here. Plaid Cymru’s very interested in using the new powers we get in the Wales Act to do a lot more as regards reducing waste: a ban on styrofoam, for example, which the French are doing; a ban on plastic forks; a tax on coffee cups. You name it, we can look at it now—we have innovative policies. I’m particularly interested that we should be at least piloting in this next Assembly a deposit-return scheme for Wales, and I really want us to get to a position where, instead of all the complaints, if you like, that we have sometimes with domestic waste, we turn to those who give us the waste in our system—those who sell us food and the products that we really need. It should not be the case in the long term, should it, that you can buy from a shop in Wales any item that is wrapped in something that cannot be recycled in Wales? That simply shouldn’t happen—with one or two rather extreme exceptions possibly. So, I think we really need to close that circle.

The other two Acts, if I can briefly mention them, that we’d be interested in bringing forward: one is an autism Act, and we’ll obviously support the additional learning needs Bill as it goes forward, but we’re looking at a wider autism Act over the period of this Assembly as well. And the final one, which of course has to be in a cross-party and parliamentary way, but is very much on the agenda for Plaid Cymru, is a Bill to deal with reasonable chastisement, as it’s termed—I prefer to say the equal treatment of children before the law, and we certainly will be holding the Government to account to ensure that the Assembly gets to vote on such a proposal in the next four years.