Yr hyn rwy’n ei dderbyn yw bod y Llywodraeth hon wedi dweud bod yn rhaid i’r safle gau erbyn 2025, a dyna benderfyniad ei Lywodraeth—a dim a ddywedais i yn y Siambr hon.

To return to the debate that we’re actually staging here on pylons, I’d like to thank Rhun, who made it quite clear—and every Member has received correspondence from Anglesey council—. I think the crucial point here is that people are able to welcome an energy development in their area, be that a more controversial development, such as nuclear energy, or a wind energy development, or an alternative approach, such as the Swansea bay tidal lagoon. But what they don’t want to see is that they are seen as accepting everything and rolling over and accepting anything that the companies and National Grid suggests. The communities need to be respected. The community on Anglesey need respect. That’s what Rhun has done in his campaigns and that’s what we’re trying to achieve in the context of this debate, too.

Llyr, of course—and I do want you to bear one thing in mind in terms of this debate: this concept of a spider’s web grid, if you like, which I think is a far better future for our network, which would mean that we would have fewer of these heavy cables on our landscape because we would review how we provide a more sustainable long-term grid. Quite simply, if it’s good enough for the Lake District in England, that every cable should be undergrounded, then it should be good enough for many areas of Wales, be they in national parks, areas of outstanding natural beauty or many of the areas that we, as the people of Wales, believe are important in terms of their beauty or their heritage. I look forward very much to Dafydd Elis-Thomas’s report. He is not here, but I am mentioning him. His report has been commissioned by the Government on the future landscapes and to have consistency in our approach to national parks, areas of outstanding natural beauty and those areas that are important to local people. I look forward to the publication of that report. We need to see that, Minister, if I may say, because that is part of the picture that we are painting here.

In concluding, may I thank David Melding for bringing some poetry into our debate, and for thinking in sublime terms, as he put it, and recalling, of course, that people discovered in Wales romanticism for the very first time?

Nid yw’n arferol, felly, i orffen dadl yn y Cynulliad gyda cherdd, ond fe wnaf hynny, gan fod David Melding wedi bod mor garedig â sôn am farddoniaeth. Cefais fy atgoffa’n syth am gerdd Stephen Spender, ‘The Pylons’. Felly, rwyf am ddarllen o’r gerdd honno—nid y gerdd gyfan. Rhoddaf flas yn unig o gerdd Stephen Spender ar beilonau:

Cyfrinach y bryniau hyn oedd cerrig, a bythynnod / A wnaed o’r garreg honno, / A ffyrdd brau / A dry at bentrefi sydyn cudd.

Nawr dros y bryniau bychain hyn, maent wedi adeiladu’r concrid / Sy’n llusgo gwifren ddu; / Peilonau, y pileri rheini / Yn foel fel cawresau noeth heb unrhyw gyfrinachau.