 Wel, prynhyn hwnnw'r ddiad gwldewi hapus i chi gyd, hapus yn David's Day, to everybody. Many good reasons to celebrate this St David's Day. The weekend weather had a real sense of spring in the air for the first time after what has been a long winter. Wales beat England to claim the triple crown and open up the path for a grand slam possibility. And we passed another remarkable milestone in our vaccination programme. The millionth vaccine was administered by our fantastic vaccination team here in Wales on Friday evening. So we continue to make progress in our ambition to offer all eligible adults vaccination against this awful virus. This slide shows the rollout of second doses, which began in earnest about a fortnight ago. The very latest figures which have just been published show that more than 100,000 people have now had both doses of the vaccine here in Wales. More than 3% of the population have now had the two doses of the vaccine and that is a higher proportion than any other part of the United Kingdom. And of course every vaccination given is a small victory against this virus and our incredible vaccination programme is helping to provide a path for us to a better 2021. The next slide shows the huge progress we've made together in bringing coronavirus under control since those difficult days before Christmas. The public health situation in Wales continues to improve and that is thanks to all your hard work and sacrifices. It is because of the actions we are taking together that you can see that rapid decline in the circulation of the virus here in Wales. Overall the seven day rate has fallen to below 65, 64 cases now per 100,000 people in Wales and in every part of Wales. The rate is now below 100 cases for every 100,000 people and in five local authority areas it's now below 50 cases and that's the first time we've been able to report news of that sort since the period before Christmas. The R number remains below one in Wales and very importantly the total number of coronavirus related patients in hospital has fallen to below 1500 for the first time since early November. Now all of these are encouraging signs that the worst of the second wave is behind us and that we can look forward together with confidence to more positive days and weeks ahead. Nonetheless it remains the case that over the last year coronavirus has turned all our lives upside down. Families across Wales have lost loved ones and a great many of us have fallen ill. On this our national day I want to pause for a moment to remember all of those who have lost loved ones and friends and who will not be able to be with them today on St David's Day and sadly despite the promising figures I've just outlined we know that people are dying still every day from coronavirus here in Wales and I'm sure that the thoughts of families, friends and others are with all of those who have faced such difficulties in the last 12 months. Now despite the extraordinary nature of these times in David's Day will be marked across the country in so many different ways. Today as a Welsh Government we have launched our new Concordat with the Republic of Ireland our closest European neighbours. The Concordat will strengthen ties between our two countries still further and it will make for greater co-operation in energy, in the economy and in cultural projects as well and we're very grateful to the Government of the Republic of Ireland for everything that they have done to work with us to confirm our relationship together. At the same time almost northern hospital Aspati Penro Stanley today marks the culmination of a huge fundraising effort led by St David's Hospice opening four new palliative care beds on Anas Mawr. Congratulations to everybody who has been involved. Llonga rachiadau i bawb. And on Friday four of Wales' best love festivals, Festival of Voice, Focus Wales, Other Voices Cardigan and the Aberyst with Comedy Festival will be coming together to create Goyal 2021 a free online festival marking the start of Meteorological Spring. Our national day is a good opportunity to remember that St David told us to do the small things. Gwnerch apethai bachain. We have all in our own ways have made small sacrifices each and every day over the past year to keep one another safe. People have stayed away from family and friends. Neighbours have been shopping for those who've been shielding. We've had to cancel or rearrange events that we had been looking forward to. And right across Wales there are people who have had to make some very large sacrifices this year as well. Whether that's not being able to go to attend a funeral, to say goodbye to a loved one, having to postpone a wedding or missing birthday celebrations. But these are the sacrifices that are keeping us all safe. They are helping us every day to control the spread of coronavirus and to go on driving down those infection rates. I want to say a few words about the huge contribution the tens of thousands of critical workers and volunteers have made throughout the pandemic. They have helped us to keep Wales going in such difficult circumstances. At some point over the last year, every one of us will have relied on help from our public services or critical workers or support from the small army of volunteers. We've asked a huge amount of them and they've always been there. And that's why today ahead of the publication of the Welsh Government's final budget for next year, debated tomorrow in the Senneth, I'm pleased to announce that that budget will contain an extra £682 million to support our response to the pandemic over the coming months. And of that £682 million, more than £635 million will be for the NHS and our local authority partners. That money will be there to help them to continue to help us over the next six months. This very significant boost to funding will support our world-leading vaccination programme so we can protect as many people as quickly as possible, boost our testing capacity, bolster our successful contact tracing programme, extend the local government hardship fund and support particularly our social care services and schools. It will provide extra support for apprenticeships, which are a crucial part of our economic recovery. It will help to maintain vital public transport provision and we will invest extra money in the discretionary assistance fund here in Wales, the fund that helps the most vulnerable people in our community to get the help they need. Now, our finance minister Rebecca Evans will provide much more detail when she lays out the Welsh Government's final budget tomorrow. But the funding that we've been able to publish today will support our vital public services during the toughest of times until this crisis is over. Of course, every one of us looks forward to the time when that will be the case. So, I'm going to end today with some more words from our patron saint, since David also advised us to be joyful to keep the faith. Bydwch Llywem, cadwch y ffydd. These are wise words from well over a thousand years ago to help us to remember what is important in these difficult times. Things will get better. Together, we can go on helping to keep Wales safe and create a fairer future for all. Once again, I wish you all a happy St. David's Day, diidgwldewi hapus i chi gyd, and I'll now take questions. As usual and as usual, all the answers will be broadcast on all the Welsh Government's social media feeds. And gynter, heady, first today, Owen Clarke from BBC Wales. Diolch yn fawr, prif Weinidog, a diidgwldewi hapus i chi hefyd, ac os gai yr atebion i'r ddaig gwasanaethau yn Gymraeg hefyd y ddyn ni'n diolch ar ti hwnt. Given what you say about the progress of the vaccination campaign and the public health indicators also continuing to move in the right direction, some people might be wishing, hoping that gives you a little bit more headroom, perhaps to send children back to school quicker or a bit more headroom to ease restriction, but considering some people will worry yesterday about how busy some places were and the possibility some people may have driven to those locations, are you worried about that going forward? Well, Owen, it's always a balancing act, as we've discussed here many times. It's a balancing act between wanting, of course, to be able to do more for our children and young people, our top priority, to reopen the economy for people to get back to doing things that we once took for granted, but always doing that in a way that puts the public health lens first. We cannot afford to throw away everything that we have achieved over the weeks that we showed on that slide earlier. That fall in numbers has been achieved because of the way people in Wales have stuck to the rules, done the hard things, and we're now seeing the benefits. I will not want to do anything that puts all of that at risk, so we're in the second week of the three-week cycle that we have on Friday of next week, I hope to be standing here, still with things improving, still with headroom to do more, bringing more children back to school, thinking what other freedoms we can restore. I understand that over the weekend, when the weather was beautiful and people spent so long during winter months confined to home, why people wanted to enjoy the fresh air, but it's still a matter of doing that in a way that is responsible and is within the rules. When I was walking in Cardiff yesterday, there were lots of people out, but they were still behaving in ways that were respectful of one another, and that's what we need to see continue. So, just either way, fel arfer ben i'n triall i wneud, i cael rhyw fath o balans rŵng, a pethau sy'n gwella, a potibliadau i ail agor a gweddau o bwydau ni ond i wneud ei mewn ffordd sydd o valis, a sy'n parchi i ffraith mae cyrwng y ffordd yn dal darmi am yng Nghymru. Dwi ddim yn ffordd o wneud unrhyw beth sy'n mynd i tuli o ffordd popeth ni wedi ennill dros o ruthnosau dweith a trwy gwaith galed mae pobl wedi wneud. A dros o'r penwrthnos, pan oedd o'r tawydd mor neid oedd cwrs dwi'n gallu diall pam o'r pobl yn isio bod tyfas, ond o'r pwysig i gŵr i wneudau mewn ffordd o ffordd sy'n parchi i bobl eraill a'n sy'n dal i tynnu at yr eoliadau sydd anu i yng Nghymru. Diolch yn fawr ac yn edrych e fedd, os bylch yn dda. We hear about six cases of the Brazilian variant being confirmed in Scotland and England. Now we know, we've previously talked about your concern about easing the rules of international travel or the UK government plans to do that in mid-way, in mid-May. Is that still the case and what then is your plan about reopening Cardiff Epolyd for international travel? Well, I do remain concerned that we have not built the protection high enough against the risk of infection in other parts of the world coming into the United Kingdom and that is particularly because we are seeing these new variants in different parts of the world and the virus will do that. The virus will always attempt to adapt itself, it'll try and get round the protections that are being put in place. Back in September in Wales our numbers of people suffering from coronavirus were undoubtedly driven up partially because we saw people who had been on holiday in France, in Spain, in Greece, in Turkey, in Bulgaria and other places as well coming back to Wales bringing the virus with them. Now that is even more dangerous when there are unknown viruses, variants of the virus circulating elsewhere in the world. So, I do ask the Prime Minister to think very carefully indeed about this. He said that he will want to do things carefully and cautiously and I'm not sure that inviting people to think that international travel is going to be back on the cards in May is the right approach to that and I've conveyed that very directly to UK ministers whenever I've had the chance to do so. Cardiff airport will not be taking flights from any countries on the so-called red list but nevertheless we have to be very vigilant and Cardiff airport will be very vigilant because it is possible sometimes for people to travel to other countries and then come into Wales in that way so we will be building the defences high in Cardiff to play our part in keeping the virus at bay. So, just either way, do we then ensure mine will be of all of us either way? Well, my private leader Boris Johnson would either way, but we have to try more and miss May. Fel ni wedi weld hefyd, mae'r virus yn newid bob dydd, mae variants newid yn codi mewn greddiad eraill yn y byd, dwi ddim yn eisiau weld popeth ni wedi'i wneud y gilydd yma yn Cymru, mynd ar gwrl, ac os ni ddim wedi wneud ddigon i warchod y dyna synedig a gofyn mae pobl yn teithio nôl a dod nôl gyda'r virus fan hyn. A maes awyr Cardiff, dydyn ni'n ddim yn dod i fewn i Gardiff o'r greddiad sydd ar y restau'r cwch, mae nhw'n galwau a'n y Llywodraeth ydy yn y synedig, ond mae pobl yn gallu teithio o'r greddiad eraill i'r lle ble mae pobl yn hedfan i fewn i Gymru, a ni'n gweithio'n galad gyda'r pobl sy'n gyfrifol am y maes awyr i bod yn ofalest dros ben pa mae pobl yn dod yn ôl i Gymru. O ein dirfawr, ofer tu Carol Greene. Ylch. I'm in a pub in Crosonsie, pub restaurants. Kate, the owner here, would like to know when she can get trading again. They've got a date in Scotland, they've got a date in England. When will Kate and others like her here in Wales have one, please? While we will provide a date as soon as the public health position is safe enough for us to do so, and when we provide a date it will be a reliable date and one that people will be able to act on. It will not be a date in the distant future where so many things could intervene to make that date implosible. So we've already said that our priorities over this and the next rounds are schools in this round with a possibility of the start of some reopening of non-essential retail. And then beyond that another three weeks away, if we are able to offer a start to the hospitality industry with a reopening of self-contained accommodation for the Easter period, those will be the major milestones in the next two reviews and if all of that is done safely and if the numbers in Wales continue to improve then we will look for the reopening of other sectors and that will of course include hospitality. If we do that then in practical terms the timetables will not be very different in Wales to anywhere else but the public health, the public health protection of people in Wales will have to be our first concern. Diolch. Given the rates and the cases are moving in the right direction, is there room for manoeuvre for announcements relaxation between the three week schedule? Well we are committed to remaining on a three week cycle which I think does mean that we are able to make decisions more quickly and more flexibly. Colleagues in England have now moved to a five week cycle which means I think that it is less possible to take interim actions. Carol, you will remember that last year we did do exactly what you suggested that we did sometimes say you know in two weeks time this will be able to reopen. So I intend to operate the three week cycle but I do think that when it is possible to use some flexibility within it when we had sufficient time to be able to monitor the impact of the decisions we've already taken and give people notice of what might come next then we certainly won't have ruled that out and it would be consistent with the way that we approached all of this last year. Diolch. Diolch yn fawr over to Gareth who is here from the national this time. Diolch yn fawr Prif Weinidogad, Diolch yn fawr Dery Habbos. You may have seen that today the national is leading with the role devolution has played in the pandemic. A year on from Wales is the first case of Covid-19. How do you think devolution has impacted how we have handled the pandemic here in Wales? Well I think the last 12 months has been a very significant one for devolution in the sense that it has made it absolutely clear to people in Wales that they have here a Senate and a government that has very significant powers, independent ability to act with advice and advisors of our own and that we have been able to chart a course through this pandemic in a way that demonstrates both the significance but I would argue of course the success of our ability to use those powers for ourselves. So in that way I think it's brought devolution home to people and I hope that on the whole it has demonstrated to people in Wales that the powers that are exercised on their behalf are being used in ways which they continue to support. On that point then do you think that we can say whether devolution has actually helped save lives in Wales and if not what's one area that you feel certain devolution has made a positive difference on the pandemic? Well I've no doubt at all that the use of the powers we have has saved lives here in Wales. All the way through I think when the history comes to be written what people will see is that here in Wales we have done our best to take the advice of Sage and our own advisors seriously as we can and the advice has always been if you have to take action take it early and take it seriously and we have been the first mover on so many aspects of responding to the pandemic and undoubtedly that that has saved lives. But if I took a completely different example of where devolved powers have made a real difference during the pandemic then I maybe I would just use this one that we were the first government in the United Kingdom back in April of last year right at the start of the pandemic to guarantee the children would have access to free school meals during the holidays as well as during term time and we've sustained that all the way through and in the final budget that we will lay tomorrow we will provide money to go on doing that right through the whole of the next financial year. So we were the first people to do it we have the most generous scheme in the United Kingdom and I just think it demonstrates that we have been able to align the actions of the Welsh Government to the things that would matter to people here in Wales and to use or devolve powers not simply to save lives but to make life better for those young people who otherwise would have found the last 12 months even more difficult. Gareth ychwanawd drosod i Adam Hale y P1. Diolch i'r prif Weinidog. Retired to international travel you said that you want to build remote hire for now to prevent bringing coronavirus variants to the UK. Just how high do you want these rules be? Would you prefer international travel to be paused for the rest of the year or do you ever mind the situation where you'd be happy for it to return? Well I would do it in the opposite way to the UK government. This is the case I've tried to make to them. The UK government's approach is that all international travel is okay apart from 33 countries that are on a red list. I would do it the opposite. I would say we shouldn't be having international travel but here is a list of countries where we are confident that things are under control, where there are testing regimes, where we would be confident that people returning from there would not be posing a threat to us. So it's the lens that you use. So the UK government provides protection by exception. Everything's okay apart from here. I would say nothing is okay other than the list of countries where we're confident they wouldn't be a problem and I think that would, as I say, build the wall higher, create greater protection for the whole of the United Kingdom. Thank you. In sharing a review said that following talks between the UK nations and Michael Good as well that you had confidence Wales would receive a little bit more of the UK's share of vaccines, of course allocated at the moment in terms of population size in the Sue Wales's profiles, the country with the oldest average age. Boris Johnson has said since there are no plans to differentiate between parts of the UK and Welsh Secretary, Simon Hart has said you're surprised they hear you say that, that possibly could be. What's gone on with that since you last spoke about this and wouldn't that be a good time while they're seeing a slight dip within the vaccines available that any topping up of supply should kick in? Well just to be clear that we are getting our Barnett share of the vaccine and despite the fact that we have a higher proportion of our population in those top four priority groups, we were able to complete the first offer of vaccine to those groups ahead of any other part of the United Kingdom so we have not been held back by problems of supply in being able to get our vaccination programme under way. We did make the case and at one point we did think that the case had been accepted that because we have a higher proportion of our population in those early groups that we would get a slightly bigger part of our Barnett share in the beginning and that would mean we would get slightly less of it towards the end in the event that hasn't happened. We continue to get our Barnett share but as I say because of the way that our programme has operated we were still able to offer the vaccination to those parts of the population where we have a higher proportion than anywhere else, faster than anywhere else so I don't think it's turned out to be a problem in practice. What we now do need to see from the UK government is in this month a recovery in the supply that we've had. We've had the two weeks where we knew that the volume of vaccine coming to Wales was going to be lower than it had been previously but the profile for the month of March is of a significantly accelerating volumes of the vaccine coming to Wales. It's very important that that is now delivered provided it is delivered then we remain on track both to offer the second vaccine to people who've had the first. You saw the slide earlier at how quickly that is now happening and to complete an offer of the first dose of the vaccine to everybody on the nine top priority groups by the middle of April. Adam Dychfawr, Thomas Davis at LBC please. Now, I'm down, Mr Drakeford. Now that you've had some time to look at Boris Johnson's roadmap, if the science here says it's safe, are there any markers you would have a preference to unlock at the same time and which restrictions would be the preferred ones you're looking at in earnest? Of course. Well, I think I've set out our approach over the next six weeks which I think is a sensible period of time as you can look ahead given the uncertainty of the virus. So, at the end of this three weeks, our priority will continue to be schools, getting as many children back into school as we safely can this side of Easter. Because of the agreement we have struck with local education authorities and our teaching and non-teaching unions, it is possible that we will have some headroom to do some other reopening as well. Non-essential retail would be a start of that and maybe we will be able to continue the gradual easing of the restrictions that we have had here over people meeting together. And we've done that over the last two three week cycles and I hope we might be able to do a bit more to allow people to meet outdoors in ways that continue to be safe. That will take us until, that will all begin from the 15th of March, that will take us to the end of March, the beginning of April and at that point on our road map, it's the reopening of self-contained accommodation in the tourism industry that will come next on our list. So fel dwi wedi ddweud ymbarod, y cynllun sydd anru yw i gynnw'r bwntio ar plant a fobol i fan chi cael fwy o bobl nôl, a wineb o wineb o'n angen ysgolion ac yn angen colegau, a os bydd fwy o gyfle i neu pethau i ail agor, rhai, i ddachra i ail agor, rhai siopa, ac i weld os mae fwy ni'n gallu neud fel ni wedi neud ymbarod a i creu fwy o gyfleion i bobol cwrdd a gilydd yn arawr agored. Bydd hwnna'n a digwydd yn canol mis mawrth, diwedd mis mawrth, dachra mis ebryl, allwn i edrych ymlaen i weld os mae'n bosibl i ddachra ar y broses o ail agor pethau yn y byd turistiaeth ac i gweud y grir ar ôl hynny am fomarnu mae'n amhosibw i cynllunio yn fwy fan o'r hynny canu weld os mae pethau'n dal i wella, wrth gwrs mae bydd posibiliadau eraill yn codi cyndiwedd mis ebryl hefyd. Diolch yn fawr, maen nhw'n gweld y ddweud diwrnod yn ysgrifffol yn ymlaen nhw, ydych chi'n mynd i'n ddod y bydd gweithio yn ysgrifffol yn ymlaen i'w gweithio bwysig yn gyntaf yn y cyfoedd y bordaidd, yn gynghori'n gweithio'n gweithio'n yn y bordaidd cael Solpney, Hult, Harden ac yn rexham yw'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio y bwysig o'r bwysig gyda teisГaeth iechyd i'r ystod gydaerad yma, ac mae'n ddif wedi bod yn ddif ar gyfer y blaid. Rwy'n gobeithio, mae'n ddif, ac mae'n hanes y gallu ymgyrch yn ystod y ymgyrch, dwi'n gwis ymgyrch, ond sefydlu o'r roi'n meddwl i'r cyffredin, yn wych yn yw ein fuddion, yn ardal yn cael ei fawr amill. Rydyn ni'n gweithio bod ddim sy'n gweithio mewn arín y mewn ymgyrch o'r groes yma yn ymgyrch o'ch gwaith i'n rhoi wlad yn ymgyrch i ddweud amdano arall os y byddai gwieldion i weithio a allwn amser, ac mae'n olygu i'r doorfyniadau i'r ddylch, rwyo'n gweithio gos dim yn ysgoel trefyddiaeth. Mae gen willwch i'r ddorfod yn cyddo, yn fwy o erbyng, mae'n gilydd i'r problemau ymgeiswyr yma o'r pethau lle i'r lidio, felly rydyn ni i'n i'n gweithio ar y gweithio aethu, Mae'r siopio tylau allan o'r tyniad ar gyfer enghreifio ni. Yn ymhyr kitchen yng Nghymru yn yr oeddiad o'r cyfnod o'r fflaen o'r holg, ac mae'n bobl yn placesu fflaen, ac mae'n addysgu'n ddiogelon i'w ffaith mewn, Thomas Di Cymru, Drowi Hauwyl Grifith, BBC News. Pranda, ond sy'n David's Day, the BBC has a poll. You may have seen the results. On the question of constitution, it shows that there are more people supporting independence, but there are also more people supporting the abolition of the Senate. What do you think that the pandemic has done to a sense of national identity and where people want to go next? I think what the pandemic has done, how well it has to polarise opinion on a number of different issues. And certainly in terms of the constitution, what you see is that at either end of the spectrum, there is a rise in the number of people who think that our future will be better off outside the United Kingdom altogether and there are people who believe that we should hand ourselves back to the Parliament of Westminster. But the great bulk of opinion in Wales, as the BBC poll shows, remains in that solid middle ground. People who believe that devolution taking control of decisions that matter here in Wales and put them in the hands of people who live in Wales, they support that. If anything, they want to see it strengthened, but they don't want to see Wales ripped out of the United Kingdom either. So, while at either end of the spectrum you can see a polarisation of opinion, the bulk of people in Wales remain there in that centre ground. A powerful devolution settlement for Wales in a successful United Kingdom. You've described what you'd like to see that be as home rule. What difference would that make in a pandemic? What powers are you lacking now that have made it more difficult over the last 12 months? Well, when I refer to home rule, what I want to see is an entrenchment of the settlement that we have and a recognition that sovereignty is dispersed around the four Parliaments of the United Kingdom. If that were the case, we would not have seen, for example, last week's announcement that the levelling up fund, so-called, which, when it was announced in November, the Chancellor was very clear that we would get our share of it here in Wales to be part of that effort. Last week it's announced that we're not going to get a share of it at all in that way, that the fund is going to be retained entirely at Whitehall. There will be no guarantee of any funding coming to Wales. It will be a competitive fund for the whole of the United Kingdom with no say in it at all for the Welsh Parliament with all the powers that we currently have. So my reason for using the term home rule is that it would prevent that sort of thing from happening. It would prevent the rolling back of devolution on which the current UK government seems so determined and would make it irreversible that the powers that are here in Wales already, the only way they could be reversed, would be if people in Wales made a conscious decision to do so, rather than by the whim of a Westminster government more interested in clawing powers back to itself and to the centre, and it is in respecting the devolution settlement confirmed here in Wales into separate referendums. Haloddiwch chi'n fawr? Drawy Thomas Evans, S.P. Wrech. Haid sy'n sefydl. Diolch, Brif Weinidog, Plandau i chi a ddifwyl. Sorry, Thomas. Diolch, Brif Weinidog. Diolch i chi. Diolch i'r dros y prydnod, caillodd gyngor Abertawe'r Raimysydd Pargyo ar gais hefydlu de Cymru wedi i grwpiau o bobl deithio'no yn y tawydd braf. Sut ych chi'n dysgu'n i'r hefydlu allu perhau i Brismunau'r cyfanyadau wrth yr tewedd wella, wrth fynd mewn gwahanwynyn, ac os mae Cymru yn symud i rheoli aros yn lleol, a fydd hyn yn fwy heriol o bosib i'w Brismunau? Mae wedi bod yn heriol i'r hefydlu yma yng Nghymru dros y penodd nôl, sy'n dwi wedi weld nifer o pethau mae nhw'n wedi dweud. Yn dderbyniol i fi, a bobl e'i ratu'n siŵr, i'r pobol sy'n deithio sy'n torri'r gafraith pan mae nhw'n neud e. A ddim yn fodlon i gryndo pan mae'r hefydlu yn esbonio iddyn nhw, a gafraith am y Nghymru. Nid wedi cydweithio gyda'r hefydlu yn agos iawn dros y flwyddyn dweitha ar pethau yn y pandemig, dwi'n cael nodiadau gyda'r hefydlu bobwthnos. I ddangos be mae nhw wedi'n neud yn barod a fel dwi'n wedi dweud o blan os mae pwerau sydd da nhw ddim yn digonol i delio'r gada'r o problemau sy'n codi dwi'n fodlon i ystyriad ffordd i crefhau'u pwerau sydd da'r hefydlu os bydd hwnna a'n helpu dwi nhw yn y gwaith galed ac anodd mae nhw'n neud a rannu gyd yma yng Nghymru. Dyma'r ddigonol i'r wahanol, y ddilyn y gallai'r Police er spuidiadau'r Llyfrnol yn gwneud unig ar gyfer tofodau sydd ddim yn ar gyfer y rai i'r Pethau sydd wedi'u cwmprifolol i'r Llyfrnol yn y Llyfrnol i'r Chysyfridol. I have simply said that that is completely unacceptable, but the law must be observed that when the police explain to people what the law is, they are entitled to be treated properly and with respect. We have worked closely with the police services here in Wales. I received weekly reports from them and I repeat again today, as I have said previously, that if their powers need to be strengthened in order for them to go on doing the job they do on behalf of us all to help keep Wales safe, then I will always be willing to discuss those proposals with the police forces here in Wales. Diolch am hynny. A fel ydych chi sôn yn gynharach o ddwylo'r bobl yn gwylio cymry i'n ennill, goron drifflig, dydd sad ddwrn. Felly, mae boryslwn sy'n isio sydd wedi dweud na fydd cyfnogwyr yn cael dychwellid i stadion me yn llhwyger, tan y leiaf mae yr ail ar fynddeg, mae yndeg saeth. Nid yw'n teall bod chi ddim eisiau nod i dyfiadau ar bethau penodol o'r flacio, ond gallwn i fysgwyl cyfnogwyr nôl mewn stadion me yn hymry cyn dywed 2000 a 21? O'r cyn dywed o'r flwyddyn, dwi'n gallu i wel flwyddyn, mae bobl yn gallu'n mynd nôl i wneud bethau fel oedd yn ei gyd, yn isio wneud dros y penwthnos. Ni'n isio wneud e'n mynd ffordd o'r vales, wrth gwrs ni'n mynd i wneud e fel oedd wneud e'n wneud e'n dweud yn dweitha trwy dysgu trwy'r a'r pailats bydd yn digwydd yn llwyger yn yr arban at os allwn ni a rhyw fath o'r pailats yma anghymru a hefyd. Pan bydd yr amser yn dod a bydd yn pwysig i cynllunio dygylid gyda'r yr awdododau yn ymais, na gyda'r cangor chwaraeon yma anghymru ac i neud e'n mynd ffordd o'r vales dysgu yw'r si o'r gwledydd eraill yn y denys yn edig ond os allwn ni, os bydd yr aglen brechu yn bwrw mlaen ac as mae'n pethau yn wella fel mae'n wedi bod allai i weld cyn dweud y flwyddyn a posibiliadau i'n mynd nôl fel oeddwn ni. Thomas was just asking me whether I could see a pathway during this year to spectators returning to sports events of the sort that we saw over the weekend and I was simply explaining that we will continue to approach that issue in the way that we did last year. There will be pilots, there will be experiments, they will happen in other parts of the United Kingdom and we will learn the lessons of those. We were able to carry out some modest pilots here in Wales and when conditions allow we would want to do that as well. If the pilots go well and if the situation of the virus continues to improve then I don't think it's beyond possibility at all that by the end of this calendar year we might see the return of spectators to sporting venues albeit it would have to be in ways that take full account of the continuing risk the coronavirus would pose. Thomas diolch yn fawr, I'll go to Will Haywood next. Thank you First Minister. Due to the fact that people cannot travel for exercise we're seeing people in cities and towns cramming into certain parks or areas like the Taft Trail in Cardiff for example. Can you explain why the rule is still in place when coronavirus rates have fallen so much and would it not be better for people to drive to a range of different places so certain parks do not become cramped? Can you give some further details about your planned review of the stay home rules on March 12? What are you considering? Could the five mile rule be returning? Well the rates have fallen because of the restrictions that we have in place and if we hadn't had the restrictions then we undoubtedly would not have the success that we've been able to report in recent weeks. I said a week last Friday that I hoped that this would be the last three weeks of the stay at home instruction so we are certainly considering what we would want to put in its place and a stay local period is one of the options that we have but we'll be working our way through those options. Pardon me this week and into next week and if in ten days time rates have continued to fall and we are in the position we hope to be in then I am optimistic that the stay at home level of restrictions may begin to be eased. Okay so just out of things you're considering have you considered the five mile rule as part of that lifting and today Wales online and a Wales online and YouGov poll found that both you and the Welsh Government were polling significantly above the UK Government and Boris Johnson in terms of how the public think you've handled the crisis but that same poll puts Welsh Labour on course for losing five seats in what would be their worst ever send of election. Why do you think there's this difference between the perception of how you've handled the crisis and Welsh Labour's performance and why do you think parties who want to roll back devolution are seeing increases in forecasted seats. Well I think party as I said in an earlier answer to how well I think the experience of the last 12 months has been to polarise opinion about the future of the senate and of devolution. And you're seeing that in the poll that you referred to and we will see. We will see where people place their cross when the actual ballot comes of course. I think when you're asking people about the here and now they have a very clear idea of how well or badly they think things have gone and they're able to report that to you with confidence. When you ask people how they may choose to vote in an election that we cannot even yet know will happen in May and is in many weeks away for people then I think you get a different and less reliable sort of answer. What I am sure of is this will that I said every time. Whatever an opinion poll says job of the Labour party here in Wales and the Labour government here in Wales is to earn every vote we get and never to take any vote for granted always to be explaining to people what we would offer in the next five years and why sticking with the people who as the poll says have conducted the extraordinary last 12 months in a way that commands the confidence of people in Wales. Why continuing with that team beyond the election is the right thing to do for Wales. Well thank you very much over to Andrew Forgrave at the Daily Post. Good afternoon First Minister. Earlier you mentioned that border issues would have to be considered very carefully when it came to reopening things like shops etc. Could you elaborate on that please? Are we talking about a return to border policing and how at that square with a return to tourism? Well I have never been keen on border policing and I have never regarded the differences that we have had in the United Kingdom as a border matter. It has always been for me about making sure that we have a sensible approach in which we don't allow people from high infection areas to travel into low infection areas and bring the virus with them. We will approach that in terms of shop reopening in a way as I say we will begin the reopening of non essential retail and we will try and do it in a way that does not create honeypot circumstances in which people who cannot go shopping in their part of the United Kingdom would feel attracted to come into Wales. So it will be careful, it will be cautious, it will be step by step and it will be very much with trying to avoid those circumstances because of the public health risk that they bring with them to make sure we don't do it in a way that leads us into those challenges. The challenges are there and they are real, they are real particularly in the north east of Wales where the population is so fluid across the border of course but we will be approaching the decisions with that issue very consciously in mind. Thank you very much. Some people, some then as members even have said that NH staff and social care staff who refuse vaccination should be denied access to vulnerable patients and residents. What are your thoughts on vaccine refusal? Well I think the first approach to vaccine refusal should always be to explain, to provide information, to persuade people as best we can that this will be something that will be in their interests and if you are a worker in those sort of circumstances in the interests of the people for whom you are providing care. I'm much more attracted to those methods of helping people who have anxieties or hesitation about the vaccine and much more interested in those persuasive ways of doing it. There are ethical dilemmas undoubtedly that surround vaccination and these have been discussed recently just last week in our social partnership council. We've agreed there to do some more work on the legal and ethical issues that surround employers decisions about how to employ or deploy people who have chosen not to take the vaccine. And in my meeting with the UK government on Wednesday of last week we've agreed as four nations to come together on this issue because it's not an issue that is unique of course to Wales. We face it in every part of the United Kingdom and those legal and ethical dilemmas are common to us all and I'm very glad we're going to have an opportunity to try and see if we can agree a common approach to all of that across the whole of the UK. Tyrob Taylor at www.drexham.com For all its advice has no constitutional significance of any sort. It is a group of the most eminent people in their field and I take their advice as does the First Minister of Scotland and the First Minister of Northern Ireland and we do so as I say not for anything that is connected to devolution but simply because if you have a group of people who have the greatest degree of understanding, the greatest depth of knowledge then you are sensible as a politician to follow their advice. Thank you and the next scheduled update to the Welsh government data on vaccine stock is due tomorrow morning. Unlike the last five updates will it actually contain information on vaccine stock and if not can you give some detail or context a comment such as significantly accelerated supply or the reduction supply to actually kind of detail what the actual effect has been for Wales? We are doing our very best to put as much information to the public domain as we can. We are constrained by anxieties which the UK government continues to have about us disclosing information that is commercially sensitive and that could lead to further perturbation in the supply of the vaccine into the United Kingdom. So, while I might not completely share the level of hesitancy that the UK government has given that they are responsible for securing the supply of the vaccine I've made a decision that we have to respect their view on this matter. So, we put as much information into the public domain as we can. We report retrospectively on the vaccine that has come to Wales and until the UK government's position changes on this matter we will not be publishing prospective data because of anxieties as I say about commercial confidentiality contracts that have been struck with support. So, I think that the UK government has made a decision on the supply of the vaccine and consequences that might flow from it if information were to be disclosed in a way that might put supply of, could raise any questions about future supply of the vaccine. Rob, thank you over to Tom Magnar at Carersworld Live. Thank you, First Minister. Can I come back a little bit on that last reply about vaccine supplies? When I'm asking about unpaid carers, you and your ministerial colleagues often caveat your remarks by saying subject to supply. In the statement a UK government spokesperson has told us, and I quote, hundreds of thousands of vaccines have been delivered to Wales. The UK government has made sure Wales has the supplies it needs when it needs them, and in the numbers agreed with all the devolved administrations, and that's the end of the quote. Isn't this continual caveatting on supplies covering a delay or delays elsewhere in getting on with vaccinating unpaid carers? Have users starting to believe that you're to think that you're juggling categories to match supply instead of your reply? Well, I don't think that will be fair at all. I am not quarrelling with the UK government in the supply of vaccine that it has provided to Wales. We would have hoped to persuade them that we could have had a little bit more at the beginning to reflect the nature of our population, but as you can see from the figures that we have shown today, we have succeeded in vaccinating a higher proportion of our population than any other part of the United Kingdom. We couldn't have done that if we didn't have the supply that has come to us. Tom, thank you for the invitation. I think it's the third invitation I've had this morning to try and say something critical of the UK government in this regard, and I've got many things that I would criticise the UK government about, but this isn't one of them. So I have to caveat it when I say that it relies on future supply, because while we have good sight always over the next couple of weeks, understandably, the further away from today we go, the more the supply of vaccine becomes contingent upon manufacturers and other variables. The plan we have from the UK government shows a rapid acceleration in the volume of vaccine that we have during the month of March, provided we have it, we will be in a position to offer vaccination as we absolutely want to do to everybody in that sixth priority group, including unpaid carers, and to get all that done within a matter of weeks now by the middle of April. Thank you for that. Can we turn to criticism of the Welsh government by our viewers? At the end of January, you said that unpaid carers would be included in Band 6. I think many people thought that that would mean all unpaid carers. Since then, last week in fact, delayed guidance has suddenly revealed quite bluntly that you can't vaccinate all unpaid carers as a priority. Many of our viewers feel let down. If there are no supply problems and there are no operational problems, the CMO and Chief Executive NHS Wells haven't raised any, it must be political. So it could be failure for 2010 duty on NHS Wales to identify carers, and that didn't work. The Pauline Home Social Services Welbing Act 2016, with duties on local authorities and health boards to identify unpaid carers by all accounts, that's failed. Are unpaid carers you provide 96% of care in Wales paying the price for lack of effective action by the Welsh government and the authorities in Wales? Tom, you've raised with me before the fact that we don't have a single register of unpaid carers here in Wales, and I've since taken that up with Julie Morgan as the Minister responsible, and I know that she is looking at the case for a single register as a result of the experience we've had in this last 12 months. There are different registers. It's not that there is no register of unpaid carers, but there is no single one place you can go with a uniform set of definitions and reliability about it, and I think, as I say, you raise it with me and we are exploring it properly as a result. What we can't have, and I understand that this will disappoint some people, is we cannot have a simple self-certification system in which anybody could turn up at a vaccination centre and simply say, I'm an unpaid carer, therefore you must now vaccinate me, because that will be a barn door through which many people who were not genuinely in that category could seek to walk, and that would mean that people who ought to be vaccinated faster would find themselves further down the queue. So we published our definitions last week. I think they are, at the very least, no more restrictive than any other part of the United Kingdom. I think probably I would argue that there is greater flexibility in our definitions than some being used elsewhere, but definitions are not only unavoidable, they're right and proper, because in that way they protect the people who are genuinely unpaid carers who otherwise might find themselves disadvantaged. Thanks very much. Tom, and finally today to Alan Evans at Llanelli Online. Thank you First Minister. Happy St David's Day. I won't keep you too long. I'm sure you've got a bowl of cow waiting there in the background. The vaccination programme in Wales has been a great success, but given the statement that getting children back to school is the government's top priority, would it not have made sense to vaccinate teachers as the top priority long before the children are going to be returning to school? It is a profession whereby adults share the same space with 30 plus children and numerous adults daily. The professions don't have those same numbers of conduct. If the answer is that teachers do not need to be vaccinated as a priority, why then have the children not been allowed back to school before now? Well, Alan, this has been, as you know, a very hotly debated topic. We asked the JCVI to look at it specifically. They did. It was one of three approaches that they have looked at for the next phase of vaccination, and their conclusion is that actually it would slow down the vaccination of people if we were to do it by professional group. So, as I said in answer to an earlier question, I think governments are sensible to follow the best advice we can. The advice we have is that doing it in the way that the JCVI suggests will get not just teachers but retail workers, taxi drivers, bus drivers, police officers, all those other people who are in close contact with other people as part of their job. Vaccinated in the quickest and most effective way. That's the advice. We will stick to it. People will go on, I know, I'm quite rightly, making a case for doing it differently. I watched the Welsh Labour Party conference with interest over the weekend, an inspiring speech by Poppy Evans, no relation, but my daughter Poppy's namesake. The First Minister relayed what Welsh Labour had delivered on over the past 20 years, and indeed the success of the handling of the pandemic. Child poverty has been exasperated during this pandemic. The eradication of child poverty surely has to be the top priority of any self-respecting government, yet we are so far off that target in Wales. The First Minister's focus appears to be on an environmentally friendly Wales. Does the First Minister honestly believe that the top priority for the people of Wales is a national forest, banning single plastics, and the eradication of car in favour of bicycles and public transport? Isn't the real priority where the next pay packet will come from, and how people will also be able to put food on the table for their families? Has the First Minister become a rainbow warrior to woo the young voters in May? Thank you very much for that. I agree with you that jobs, and I was very clear at the weekend that jobs would be at the very top of our list, particularly jobs for young people was fundamental to the recovery as is investment in our public services. That absolutely does include, as you will see in the budget tomorrow, further investment in responding to the needs of those children who don't have enough money within their families to do things that other people can take for granted. But that doesn't mean at all, I think, that people in Wales are not interested in other things as well. The climate emergency is absolutely real, as well as the coronavirus emergency. People in Wales are quite rightly looking to the government to make our contribution to tackling a problem, which if we don't tackle it, Poppy Evans, both of them, will not have the sort of futures that we would like to see for them. And the national forest, as well as being a symbol of the fantastic natural beauty of Wales and a tourist attraction and a place that people will enjoy, is part of our climate change approach as well, because planting trees we know is fundamental to dealing with carbon in the future. There was lots of what you said I agreed with, but what I probably don't agree with is that people in Wales are not interested in those issues alongside the day in, day out things of matter to them as well. I don't have a bowl of cowl, I'm afraid, but I do have some leek and potato soup that I made last night for St Davies Day having collected all the leeks off my allopment. So there we are. I shall go and enjoy it. Diolch yn fawr, thank you all very much indeed.