 Rhaid i'r ddechrau. Fel ydych chi wedi gweithio i'r yrwng. Ibaug. Rhaid i'r ddweud i'r ddim yn gweithio i'r ystod o'r argynno a llwythol i chi. A ydych chi'n gweithio i gael y cyfnod o'r cyfrifiadau gwirio'r cyfnod o'r 2023 ac yn y llwythol y dyma. Rwy'n meddwl y cyfnod o'r ffordd ac yn ymdangosol, Ac oeddwn i wedi gweithio'r lleidol hwnnw i'ch gwneud o'r ffrif o fynd i gweithio'r holl yn ysbyt i Wales. O'r ffocos yn y ddyfodol, yma, ar y ddweud y bydd ymgyrch, yw ychydigau'r ysgrifennu hefyd, ac oeddwn i'n ddweud yn ei chyfydig ar yr oedd y gweithio. on rated also won to say slightly down about the very important work that we'll preoccupious as a government over the immediate未 yet months ahead during this spring term. So contrary, we will begin the next phase in rolling out free school meals to all primary aid children across Wales. And this month, we'll答 as well the next phase yng Nghymru, o'r llyfrgellau cyfnodol, o'r 2 yw'r yw. Yn Febrwyr, rydyn ni'n gweithio'r rhagleniol, o'r rhagleniol hefyd, o'r rhagleniol hefyd, o'r rhagleniol hefyd, yn ymgyrchol i'r ffordd yw'r economi. A'r hynny, ychydig yn ymgyrchol yw'r rhagleniol hefyd, than Wales's first-ever satellite, Cardiff-based Spage Forge's Forge Star Zero. Due for launch in Cornwall later tonight, it's designed and built here in Wales. Designed and built by a team of talented engineers, scientists and technologists and all of us will be looking out for a successful launch this evening. February as well will see the introduction of our new net zero skills action plan. We know that the jobs of the future are bound up in our effort to create that greener future for Wales. Those will be the jobs and skills that will be required in a successful modern Welsh economy. By the time we arrive in March, we will have a budget to pass. This has been the most difficult budget round since the start of devolution and we will be working hard with others to secure the votes needed to confirm the budgets on which our public sector partners and others rely. In March, we anticipate that the social partnership bill now in front of the Senate will complete its passage onto the statute book and that's a real sign of the sort of progressive government we provide here in Wales and a stark contrast with the ongoing attacks on workers' rights which continue at Westminster. Over the whole of this year, we'll be supporting schools as they phase in the new curriculum for Wales, a curriculum which will see children learning about Welsh history and the history and diversity of communities here in Wales and particularly the stories of Black Asian and minority ethnic people. The climate and the nature emergency quite certainly have not gone away and this year we'll see fresh action to preserve and restore Wales's natural habitats and to stem the loss of species and we'll be working hard with Plaid Cymru to see if there are ways in which we can further stretch our ambitions and bring forward the date for achieving a net zero Wales. As part of that, our clean air bill will be introduced in March of this year and later in the summer we'll implement the ban on single use plastics which the Senate passed just before Christmas. Now last year we were proud to welcome thousands of refugees to Wales from Hong Kong, from Afghanistan and from Ukraine and those efforts will continue right across the whole of the coming year. We remain determined to provide a warm welcome to all of those who have chosen to make Wales their home. I want to say something about the cost of living crisis which continues to heat pressures on families and on businesses with very little sign that this will get easier anytime soon. All the indications point to this year being another tough one for families right across Wales. The UK economy is now in recession. Inflation remains in double figures. Food prices are rising fastest of all and energy bills will go up again in April of this year. We know the sacrifices that families are having to make to help to get ends to meet and this year and the next according to independent experts are likely to see the biggest falls in disposable household incomes ever since records began. That is the background against which the Welsh Government will continue to do all we can to help people providing targeted support where we can and by putting money back into people's pockets through our universal schemes and programmes free prescriptions free school meals other things that we do here in Wales to leave money in people's pockets to deal with all the other demands that they face and at the same time we will continue to put pressure on energy companies to reduce costs for those who have the least. It's a scandal that people who rely on prepayment meters should have to pay for energy before they have used any energy at all and we call again on the UK government to put an end to the daily standing charges for prepayment customers and to move to a social tariff a social tariff that would offer protection to those for whom energy costs are now such a significant drain on their weekly incomes. I want to say something about the health service and the continuing difficulties which this winter poses for our health and care services. A combination of high levels of flu a return of coronavirus circulating in communities over Christmas together with a rise in cases of Strep A has led to unprecedented levels of demand right across the whole of the services which the NHS provides. The 27th of December was probably the busiest day the NHS has ever experienced in the whole of its more than 70 year history. Here in Wales 550 people were admitted to hospital on the 27th of December alone and at the same time we have a very large number of people who are in hospital but medically ready to be discharged. They may be waiting for tests or assessments or for some elements in a care package but while you have that extraordinary demand at the front door of the hospital it's right that we take action to free up bed space for those whose needs are the most urgent. That is why Wales's chief nurse and the deputy chief medical officer recently issued advice to support clinicians safely to discharge some people home where they can be supported while they wait for those tests while they wait for those assessments. You don't need to be in a hospital bed waiting for that to be carried out. Now the pressure on our hospitals over the Christmas and the new year period has meant that some people have waited a long time to be able to access care and I echo the apologies of the chief executive of NHS Wales to anyone who has experienced such a weight but at the same time I want to thank all our NHS and care staff who have worked incredibly hard once again over this Christmas and new year period to treat and to look after the great many people who have turned to the health service for help. Now the weeks ahead will continue to be challenging ones for our NHS. On Wednesday members of the GMB trade union employed by the Welsh ambulance service will hold a second day of strike action. Ambulant staff will also take part in coordinated strikes called by the GMB and UNISM in large parts of England on the same day. Last week the UK government announced plans to introduce new draconian anti-strike laws which will make it even harder for workers to take part in industrial action in the events of disputes over pay or terms and conditions. Unlike the UK government, the Welsh Labour government does not believe that the response to strikes should be to bring forward such restrictive and backward looking laws. Laws by the way which would trample over the devolution settlement as well. We recognise and respect the strength of feeling demonstrated by members in these ballots and through the industrial action taken. We know that these are never decisions which have been reached lightly and we remain committed to working in social partnership with our trade unions to explore a way to resolve current disputes. It was in that context that on Friday of last week the health minister wrote to health unions in Wales to invite them to discuss an offer to try and resolve current disputes. We have worked very hard across the government and across the Christmas period to bring together the resources which underpin the offer. An offer which has three elements for discussion and for negotiation. A one-off non-consolidated pay ward paid for from this financial year's budget. Secondly discussions on ways in which we can move forward on staff welfare issues and on reducing agency spend. And thirdly ways in which we can work together to restore confidence in the pay review body process. Now I hope of course that we will be able to find a resolution to this dispute in social partnership and I look forward to those meetings happening with our trade union colleagues later this week. All in all then we have a very busy year ahead, a year in which there are challenges but as ever opportunities for us here in Wales. The way we will face them is the way we always face challenges here in Wales by coming round the table and facing them together so that we work hard in partnership to build that stronger greener and fairer future for us all. Diolch yn fawr i chi gyd. As ever, I'll now take questions from our journalists colleagues, some of whom are here in the room and some of whom will be on the screen. And first this morning to Felicity Evans from BBC Wales. First Minister, thank you very much. If you could answer bilingually I'd be very grateful please. Are you able to give us more details of the nature of this one off pay award offer? How much are you offering? To whom is it being offered? Are you now treating health workers as a special case in all of the potential industrial disruption that we could be facing this year? Well we will begin discussions this week with our health trade unions because there are actual disputes and actual strikes taking place in that sector. That does not rule out of course continuing to discuss with trade union colleagues in other sectors the issues which they are facing and potential solutions we could offer here in Wales. I anticipate that I am lucky to disappoint you during the next half hour by not being able to share specifics over amounts of money or how it might be used. These are negotiations with our trade union colleagues. It will be disrespectful I feel not to put those issues in discussions with them first. Once we've had those discussions we will of course share more of the details but it's right and proper that the people who we are directly in discussions will get to hear some of those further details when we have the opportunity to be around the table together. Wel ni ddechrau gyda'r hyn debyg anemais iechyd achos mae strikes dan ni ar hyn o bryd anemais a na ma hwnod ddim yn gwreid o'r cwrs o gwbl dydyn ni ddim yn fodlon i parhau isgwrsio gyda'r yn debyg eraill a maesau iechyd ble mae problemau wedi codi a fel dwi wedi wedi wedi'i wedi'n barod a sloeddraith am yng Nghymru ni'n barod bob tro i ysgelawr gyda'r bob o'r ac i trafod a pethau a atlaeth i ddim rhoi fwy o mynylion am y ffagorau tiol i'r llythyr oedd y gwneud o giechyd wedi anfon mat ar dydd gwenar achos mae'n just yn parhys am fymarn i cadw o mynylion na tan bydd cyfle i ni i siwd i'r lawr gyda'r ar yndeg bai rhan i fwy o wyboda'r gyda nhw anna cam gynta ar ôl hynny bydd fwy o mynylion a chi ei ddim yn gweinio i fan hynny. Diolch. A again with the second question please are bilingual answers if you would. Ff y UK Government we are hearing reports that the UK Government is also planning to offer a one-off payment to striking health workers and also offering talks with trade unions, is it just a coincidence that your government and that government seem to be adopting this common approach and are you expecting i'r rhaib amgylchedd arddangos bwysig iawnion er gynnwys ar gyfer gweithio'r gwyprws uchydigol? Mae drosgu rhaid serodd, rhaid nhw'n pryd yn rhaid gweithio yn gweithio'r rhai gwasanaeth yng Nghymru. Felly mae'n rhaid i'r gweithio'r gweithio yn gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio. Yr hyn, mae'r Gweithdoedd afterno, i'r gyfrifoedd cyffredig yn gweithio, new year period I will have lost count of the number of meetings I will have had with the finance minister and her colleagues looking to try to draw together the sum of money that we are now able to discuss with our trade union colleagues and the timetable for our letter and for our meetings was entirely within our own hands and not influence at all by whatever may be happening at Whitehall. Well, quite certainly if there is new money available to pay staff in England that should lead to a Barnett consequential here in Wales. That is straightforwardly how the rules should operate. I'm afraid we've become more used than we would wish to be to the UK government finding ways of avoiding the Barnett formula but we will certainly be looking very closely indeed at anything that they do put forward and if it involves new money then the system is absolutely unambiguous that should lead to money for Northern Ireland, for Scotland and for Wales and if money did come to Wales for those purposes I'll say again what I've already said to our trade union colleagues and money that came our way as a result of pay discussions in England would be devoted to a better pay offer here in Wales. So, dydyn ni ddim wedi clwyddi'n byd o ddiolch o'r clwr drwyth a'n san Stefan a'n pethau mai nhw'n neud, ni wedi gweithio'n galled dros yn y ddoli a dros y flwyddyn newydd i partoi am y pethau ni'n mynd i trafod gyda'r yn debyg am y angymru a dros dim cysylltu gwbl rŵn o beth ni wedi wneud a beth i'n mynd ymlaen yn llwygur os mai rhywbeth yn mynd ymlaen, os mai arian newydd yn dod i helpu setglor a problemau yn llwygur fel mae'r system yn glir a bydd hwnna yn adlwyr chi at arian newydd i ni am yng Nghymru a dros o'r cwrnod dywetha ni wedi weld y drosorles a'n san Stefan i trael i asgoi rhoi arian i ddyn nhw, felly bydd rhaid i ni cadw llygaid a'r beth sy'n digwydd a'n llwygur a'r os mai arian newydd ar y bwrdd yn ymlaen, a mae hwnna yn dod gyda'r arian newydd i ni, atlai i ddweud bwrema beth bydd i ddweudio yn deba i ambarod, os bydd arian newydd yn dod am cyflogi bobl bydd yr arian i gyd am mynd at y rinpeith yma yng Nghymru. Diolch yn fawr, Chrissie. Over to Adrian Masters in ITV Wells. Thank you, First Minister. In England, the UK government has announced extra money to commission extra care home beds. Is that something you're looking at here in Wales, at least are you looking at a similar scale? And related to that, a lot of people have raised this with me as an idea. Why not something similar to field hospitals as a way of taking some of the pressure off hospitals? Well, first of all, Adrian, I am not certain that the UK government's announcement has any new money behind it at all. They announced the identical sum back in July of last year. Had we created a population share of additional beds based on what the UK government said was provided for England back in July, we would have had to found 350 additional beds in Wales for this winter. We have 508 at present confirmed, so we have already far exceeded any equivalent figure for Wales. And there is money in the system to go further. So it's not a money problem. The problem here is much more to do with capacity and particularly to do with staffing. And in many ways, that is one of the answers to the suggestions of field hospitals. First of all, let's not forget, field hospitals didn't appear out of thin air ready to go. They took building, they took creation, you know, it would be many weeks before any field hospitals would be up and equipped. But the real challenge to field hospitals is finding the staff to operate them. So we are 1000 staff down in the Welsh NHS today as a result of COVID. 800 or so people directly experiencing COVID and over 200 others not able to be in work because they've been in very close contact with somebody who has. And of course, you know, members of staff in the health service and the social care services are more vulnerable in many ways to catching influenza and other diseases because they're constantly in contact with people who are suffering from them. So I'm afraid the issue, it's not just as simple. And I've heard it put by people who are very well meaning and you're looking to help us with solutions that we could go back to field hospitals because even if we could create them really rapidly, staffing them would be a real challenge. And that's part of why we haven't yet been able to commission at least another 300 beds beyond the 508 we already have in place, which we've got funds for for this winter in Wales. Thank you for that. And I wonder whether it's clear that you see this as a very severe situation, very serious situation for the NHS in Wales. Do you recognise it as a crisis for the NHS in Wales? Well, look, I think there are days in which hospitals and the people working them absolutely would have felt that they were dealing with a crisis. Thankfully, the most difficult days around the 27th of December, those pressures eased a little last week. So it's not a perpetual state of crisis, but there have been moments and days with the pressures in the system would have felt very much to people managing it, responding to it, as though they were dealing with a crisis. So I'm not seeking for a minute to underplay those pressures or to suggest that they've not been exceptionally difficult, but it's not a chronic state of crisis. As I said, mercyfully, things improved. So things are still very hot out in the health service. The demands in January will continue to be very, will demand a lot to the people who work in the service, but it's not a perpetual crisis in the way that some people suggest. Adrian, thanks very much. We're going to go to Laura Clementson, Wales Online, who's joining us on the screen. Oh, sorry. We're not going to. We're going to go to Andy, who's here in the room. Andy Davies from ITNs. Just picking up on that theme, First Minister, when you look at the state of the NHS in Wales in particular, the times people are having to wait for treatment, the frankly awful conditions that some people are having to endure while waiting for that treatment. Are you embarrassed? Well, I wish things were better for people. I wish people didn't have to wait the length of time that they do. And I wish that other physical conditions under which staff work and people sometimes have to wait could be better than they have been while the system has been under such pressure. I do think it is important and just fair to people who work so hard in the system to step back just for a minute. We published as we do every month the latest figures for the NHS in Wales on the 22nd of December. They show that waits are down at every point in the system that we are seeing more people within 21 weeks from the start to the finish of their treatment than we have at any time since the pandemic. We have 20% fewer emergency admissions in the Welsh NHS this winter than we did in the winter before the pandemic because of all the extra things that we have put in place. A record number getting on for 15,000 people in a single month learned that they did not have cancer in Wales because the system had carried out the tests necessary and come to that conclusion. And the standard wait for triage in a major emergency department in Wales is 20 minutes and the standard wait to see a senior doctor is one hour 40 minutes. So while the system is under huge pressure and I'm keen to emphasise none of this is to minimise that, the system goes on managing to see hundreds of thousands of people every month and to do that successfully. In the context of being fair to those people who work within the system, as you just mentioned, do NHS staff in Wales deserve bigger pay rises than those currently awarded? Yes, I've always said that. Do people deserve that? They do. They deserve to be fairly rewarded for the vital work they do and it is no surprise to me that a decade of austerity followed by runaway inflation has the impact that it has on people feeling that they have no alternative but to express the disquiet they feel, so the action they are taking. The amount of money we are able to put on the table for recurrent pay awards is absolutely linked to the level of pay awards that are struck in England that then gives rise as we heard earlier to a barmy consequential for us. That is why when we meet our trade union colleagues later this week, I'm not in a position to offer them a higher pay award that will build into their salaries and go on creating a platform for the future, but we have managed to find a sum of money that would enable us to make a one-off payment to our NHS staff before the end of this financial year and that's what we will be discussing with our trade union colleagues when we meet them hopefully as I say later this week. I'm going to carry on, I think, talking to people in the room, Simon. I'm just checking that that's the case which Hannah Thomas is here from LBC. Thank you. So the Royal College of Nurses says a one-off payment won't end strike action and I know you say you can't give us detail but you said there are discussions that will be taking place this week. Can you just enlighten us as to what is going to happen and whether you can meet their demands? Well, I saw that the RCNA Wells had said that the letter that they'd received was a step in the right direction and they looked forward to those further discussions. I entirely understand that trade union colleagues would much rather have an increase in the offer that has been made to them for this financial year that would then build in as a new platform for whatever award will be made next year. Of course, I understand that. I've carried out many trade union negotiations myself on that side of the table. We are simply not able to do that in Wales but what we have done as I say it has required an enormous amount of work involving in the end every single one of my ministerial colleagues to look at plans that we have for the final quarter of this year and to amend those plans to release the sum of money that we can put on the table which we can then talk to our trade union colleagues about how that sum of money could best be distributed amongst their members. It will not be and I recognise that from the outset what trade unions would ideally be looking for but it will be a sum of money that would not otherwise be available to their members during a difficult period with all the cost of living pressures that we have faced that could go directly into their members' pockets and no trade union would not be willing to talk about that even though in the way that we've heard you know we know from the outset that it would not be their preferred solution. Thank you and just a few days ago Plaid Cymru have accused Welsh Government of hypocrisy so you know obviously Welsh Government have hit out with the UK Government at all these strikes and yet so far you haven't had talks with unions. Is that going to change? Well it wouldn't be true because we talk to our trade union colleagues all the time. I had a series of discussions with trade unions myself last week as we worked our way towards the letter that we were able to send to them on Friday. There have been further discussions with trade union colleagues this morning on the Welsh Government and there will be a formal meeting as I hope by the end of this week based around the letter that Elinod Morgan was able to send. So I think it simply wouldn't be true to say that we have not continued in conversations drawing on our long history of social partnership here in Wales that has led us to the position that we reached on Friday. Hannah, thank you very much indeed. I am going to go back to the screen now and I see Laura Clements from Wales online as the first person. No no I'm so sorry we have some technical problems here and so it's Elid, Elid gwawr of BBC Cymru. Diolch yn fawr, os o'ch chi at y pein yn ddweud eistaf byddwn ni'n rili diolchgar. Ddech chi ddeud cyn rŵan a does na unrhyw arian ar gyfer cyflogau yn y sector gyhoeddus fe sydd i newid yn yr hythnos y dweudau fel y gyfo'ch yn gallu gwneud y cynnig yma ar gyfer gweithwyr yn y sector iechyd? Wel pan oeddwn ni'n ddweud does dim a fwy o arian beth ond yn gyferio ato oedd y ffaith does dim arian ddani ni'n gallu rhoi i wneud fwy nag oeddwn ni'n dysgwyl wneud dros y timor hi'r beth i wedi digwydd dros y wrthnosau dweithau yw a gwaith ni wedi wneud i trili ten ni arian digwydd i roi fwy o arian just am mewn un pekin a bydd hwnna ddim ar gael yn y fwy arianol nesaf. So mae hwnna wedi digwydd ac aros y gwaith gale ni wedi wneud i edrych ar y pethau o'r flaen ni yn y cwaterola o'r fwy arianol hon ac ail trefni pethai. Fy f Tinder ei arrian. Gw Before I said previously about there being no further money for pay awards, asked what has changed in the last few weeks. What I explain was is that when we talked about there being no further money, that was in the context of a consolidated pay award in which we would have put extra money into pay packets this sy'n dwi'n meddwl yn ysgrifennu. Yn y ddechrau, ond ond rydyn nhw'n ei wneud i'ch gweithio yng Nghymru. Mae'n mynd i ddweud i ddweud o'r grifennu hwn o'r rhaid fathion, yr adnodd iawn i'r ddweudio eu cwm yw ddweudio. Yn rhaid i gael eu cwm yw'r pan fydd yn gweithio'r ddweudio, rydyn nhw'n meddwl i'ch gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r ddweudio. I'n fwyaf i'w ddifwng ar gyfer amddangos yma ac yw'n fynd i'n dweud yn fan hynny'n ymwysig hynny... ...eg yn ddifwng allan o'r amlwg i'r dda i chi'r gwneud yw i'r ddweud i ddweud am ddangos o'r gweithio... ...ag am ddweud ar gyfer amddangos ymwysig hynny, ar gyfer amddangos ymwysig hynny. Mae'n ddweud wedi'i ddweud ar gyfer amlwg i'r ddweud i'r ddweud... ...y'r ddweud amlwg i'r ddweud. That means that that one-off sum of money is available, and that's what we will be discussing, we hope, by the end of this week. Diolch yn fawr. Ych chi'n debygau na chi ddigon o breth ydw i'n mynd i'r dda i mwy o bobl asian o rispytyn, dyf y staff i'n ei dyn nhw. Ych chi'n deud ydw i'n mynd i'n cael mwy o'r staff, dda chi'n mynd i'n syni fel atebion ta mor ber i problemau ta mor hi'r iawn. Wel, wrth gwrs, ni'n bysoddi fwy o arian mewn hyfforddiant, mewn unrhyw a amser dros y cyfnod, o dwi'n just ddech yn oly, dros y cyfnod o'r agwasanaeth iechyd i gyd. A ni'n bysoddi 2,62 miliwn o bynnoedd yn y flwyddyn arian o hon fwy o bobl yn cael a hyfforddi'n a unrhyw amser. A ni'n hyderus nawr a bif 12,00 fwy o staff yn dod mas o'r y proses hyfforddiant erbyn 2,00 pedwar ar y gain. A ni'n siarad nyrsys, doktoriad a pobol eraill sy'n gweithio fel cynnigwyr yn amais. Dyna pam hefyd a ni'n wedi yn barod a dachre talu a cyflog byw i'r staff sy'n gweithio yn amais gofal. A chos lot o'r bwlchau sydd anu, dydy'n nhw ddim i gyd yn amais iechyd, mae nhw'n yn amais gofal yn y gymuned a hefyd. A chos i'n ddim i'n gweithio yn y dyna'r gweithio, mae'n gweithio'n gyfnodol ar gyfer y staff sydd angen eu cyflogol a'r cyflog. Mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio a'r angen i'r staff yng Nghymru a'r NHS yn ystafell, £262 miliwn yn y cyfnod o'r ysgol, a'r ysgol 2024-25, rydyn ni'n meddwl 12,000 yng Nghymru. Mae'n meddwl o'r dros, oed, oed, oed, oed, oed, oed, oed, oed, oed, oed, oed, oed, oed, oed, oed, oed, oed, oed, oed, oed. Ni'n credu rŵn i'n meddwl i'u troflol, a'i'n meddwl o'r oed, oed, oed. Rhyw hwn ni'n codi an sighch amser yna'r gwybod â'r cyngor, i'w meddwl, i'w meddwl, i'w meddwl. Ynod y ffawr, yma, yma, mae'r c miesaid, iawn yn y cyfnod o'r rhes i gaelio'r cyffredinol, ar y cyоюledd, a'u gwneud oherwydd, a'u gwneud yma yng nghylch ar y priodydd. Do you also apologise to those patients as First Minister ? I think I did that in what I said at the start of this afternoon. I echoed the apology that was made by the chief executive of the NHS. Nobody wants to see people, faced with those sorts of experiences in the Welsh NHS. Nobody worries about them more than the people who work on the front line. So of course, I echo that apology and you congalhwch y register. I echo that apology and you can be sure that we are doing everything we can together with those people who are responsible for the direct running of our health boards to try and make sure that the position improves. Just my second question sort of following on from that. Can you guarantee that enough work will be done this year to prevent those stories being headline news this time next year? Well, the word guarantee is a very definitive word, isn't it? A huge amount of work went in the advance of this winter to try to prepare for it. I explained earlier, we've got over 500 extra bed and bed equivalent services for this winter and can do more again and there will be more staff recruited in advance of next winter as well. But the story of the NHS is always a story of supply on the one hand, but demand on the other. As I tried to explain in the beginning, I may get these figures not absolutely exactly because I'm trying to remember them. I think on the 4th of December there were 65 admissions for flu into our hospitals in Wales and it was over 300 less than three weeks later. We saw the extra impact of COVID on the NHS. We've got nearly 1000 COVID related patients in hospital beds in Wales on Friday just gone and you are always trying to manage the supply that you can put in place against the demands and the demands are not always predictable. On the 27th of December particularly, we saw that confluence of extra flu demand, extra COVID demand, the pent-up demand that's always there over Christmas. Some parts of the system still dealing with the impact of the cold weather that we'd had earlier in the month and all of that came together to create those very difficult moments. Thank you. Going to go back on to the screen, I think, and to Yvan, Yvan Jones, es pedwrech. Hello, Diolch yn fawr iawn. Rwy'n fy nid o'r gymryd. Rwy'n dweud bod y pwy serig mwy sy'n rhaid i chi'n gwladol yn cael ei eich osio lef yn rhanol gan y cynnydd yn ei fyrwch osio'n COVID ar fliw a strep hei yn ystod mi'n swydd y ghef. Ydi'n bryd, el gyflwyno rhai ar gyfyniadau levelu sellofos ni'n ystod y pandemic er enghraifft i'w sgwstio, masgau gorfodol mewn shopau a gysgolion, ac aws le'n rhyw fesu rhai o'r fath dan ystod riaeth. Wel, wrth gwrs, ni'n dal i cael cangor o ddiwrth y prif swyddog a meddagol bob othnos a'n ni'n dal i edrych ar popes idd-a'r gal i ni i dyfnoddio mwgawdau, mwy hwnna'r ar arrester o pethau, mae'r prif swyddog meddagol, gyda'r prif swyddogion meddagol ledled a denys yn edig yn ystyried bob othnos a hynny'n bryd. Diolch i'r cangor ddim wedi dod at o ni fel gwneud o gion i'n mynd nôl at hynny ond ni'n ystyried bob othnos. Yn ystod, rwy'n gweithio'r prysgau o'r system, rwy'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio, drwy'r prysgau o'r cymryd, oherwydd rydyn ni'n rydyn ni'n throses sydd wedi bod ddod yn ddod i pa ddech o'r bwysig, felly rydyn ni'n ddechrau'n gweithio, felly mae'n ddod i'r lleiddo'r gweithio, fel mae'n ddad o'r gyngharaff anghos nesaf, ac oedd y clínau sydd yn cael ei chael. I'r bwysig, i gyda'r prysgau, felly mae'n ddod rwy'n licio'r gweithio'n ddod i'r gweithio, hen here in Wales, we would certainly take that very seriously. Diolch, Faryon. Rwy'n rheswun â'r gwedig ffonyau chi'n rhaid ffian ar ôl calibnod i'n brifunidog mewn cyfarbyniad gyda'u ragfleinu lystras. Ydi hynny wedi gosod pactrwm ar gyfer ffagor, gyfa threbu drwng llwodraeth Cymru a llwodraeth y Deynau Senedig, dos Davies Dwythau, a beth bynnag y gwahan i ddabarn a dir berthynas gwythio yn wel na gydaeth dan Boris Johnson a lystras. Wel, fel wedi o chi oedd galwad ffón ar y dyw yn nod pan gawsodd Rysi Sunach a'u apwyntio, a dwi wedi cael cyfarfod Davies ar ôl hynny, aeth y brifunidog i'r cangor a British Irish Council. Ac oedd hwnna'n rhywbeth dda dwi'n meddwl a'r ôl hynny dwi ddim ydy'n meddwl mwy o gyfleo'n isiara neu cwrddave. A'r efel Sredogion mae'r gwaith yn mynd ymlaen bob dydd a'r cyfan dwi'n meddwl mae pethau wedi wella peth bach. Fel wedais i'n mwynhag unwaith yn ystod y pandemic, be dwi'n isia weld yw nid just pethau sporadau, fan mae cyfarfodd iddyn digwydd heb cynllunio offline dwi'n isia weld patrwm o pethau. A nai le el i ni'n gallu dibynni ar y patrwm isiara digwydd am y problemau ni'n wneud bydd dros a dynes yn edrych. Yn ystod y Prif Weinidog, mae'r Prif Weinidog wedi'u prif Weinidog wedi'i gwneud y ffonchol i'r Prif Weinidog yng Nghymru, ac mae'r Prif Weinidog wedi'i gwneud i'r Prif Weinidog yng Nghymru yng Nghymru yng Nghymru yng Nghymru yng Nghymru yng Nghymru yng Nghymru yng Nghymru. Mae'n ff Davun o gyfodd o'r mewn gweithiau a'r mewn gwirioneddau ar gyfer y dyma, a'r wych sy'n ei gynnal ar gyfer y gweithiau, a'n ymgyrch yn gyfodd o'r fawr o'r ddydd. Ond mae'n brif yn amlwyntio'n gweithio, a'r mewn cyfodd o'r hefyd, ac mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Unwyr i'r pethau yw yw ymgylch yn hynny, dym ni'n mynd i'r gwirionedd yr aelod fuddiadol a hynny yn hynny. Felly hynny'n fawr oedd yw peirledd yma bod hynny yn siŵn i'r gweithredu. Rhyw i'n bwysig ar gyfer cyffrous – Strategannau wedi'i gwirionedd yr aelod. Mae Llyfrgellion yn ei wneud gwahanol i'r cyfwysig ar y methu, gyda i'n fydd ymryd ymlaen o'r byddai'n gwirionedd arlawn. i'r berthynatio gan llwybabodn digwydd. Mae gynhyrchu nhw i gefnodd rhaid i'r cymhwyno gwybod ar gyfer y Cyflawn Gweinwch. Mae gwidthio'r gweinwch mwyfant fyddwyl yn ddiolch ar gael gweinwchiaf yn march oes yn ingwydd. Mae gennym ddu llyführyr i'r gweinwch sydd yn ddiolch fel ardal a llwybrau. Dwi'n golygu o hyn i llawer o'r eu ddefnyddio, o bobl ysgol y gallen nhw ar gyfodaeth, felly we now need to see that carried through to a fuller conclusion. Ifan, dych yn fawr, over to Tom Magner at Carersworld Live. Thank you very much indeed, First Minister. You've spoken earlier of priorities, which I assume you've considered to be matters of the greatest importance, and also referred to challenges which seem to imply more difficulty with hurdles to be clear. Can I ask you to keep that in mind? My first question is on the subject of hospital-acquired COVID deaths. Your government revealed in August last year, some four months ago, that the most accomial investigation has been completed into 1,619 cases. You said then, I think, there was no reason why considering the number of completed investigations that you could not publish a report at that time with no one expecting personal data. There were presumably no privacy issues. Now it appears that the Welsh public have to wait until the end of March for the outcome of this investigation. Why wait even longer? Why delay? Is this not critical to maintaining and improving infection control standards? And of course, it's not just about recommendations. You've still got to implement them afterwards. You seem to be treating this more like a challenge than a priority. Well, Tom, I certainly think hospital-acquired infections is a really important issue. It's been a really important issue over the last few weeks with a number of patients suffering from communicable diseases like flu arriving in hospitals. It continues to be a real challenge for staff trying to respond to the numbers of people who need their help in the circumstances that they have to work. The reason why a report will be published a bit later than we had hoped is simply because we want to make sure the report is as good as it can be. The delay is to do with making sure that the information in it is accurate. It involves every single health board in Wales having to report on individual cases. We want to make sure that the report that is published draws that information together in the most accurate way. But the lessons that can be drawn from it have had a chance to be considered by clinicians and by the people we rely on to provide services at the front line and therefore that the lessons that are in the report are as usable and as useful as they can be to frontline workers. So I don't dissent from anything you said about the importance of it. And in a way, it's paradoxical, I know, but it's the importance of it. That means it's taking a bit longer than we first expected. Again, thinking of priorities and challenges. Can I ask you about the promised national unpaid carers register for Wales? Around about this time last year, in answer to one of my questions, you promised that it would be published in October, but it's yet to see the light of day. Again, perhaps are you seeing this issue faced by unpaid carers as more of a challenge than a priority? Well, I want the register to be taken forward. I think, Tom, you raised this question in a press conference that I gave with a leader of Plaid Cymru. And following that, I went away and had discussions with our officials as to the progress that was being made in relation to the register. And it's not a challenge in the sense that you mean it. It's something that we want to see happen and you're prompting at that last press conference that has led to further discussions about how it can be practically brought about. Thank you. Thank you. And finally, I think for today, we're going to go to Alun Evans at Camarventia News Online. Thank you, First Minister. Y blwyddyn nhw wedi'u nhw'n edrych ar ffrom Sany Cymdiad yn Camarventia. There are some who are predicting that you will not be First Minister at the next Senate election. The NHS in Wales is in crisis. It's operating at worse levels than the NHS England, called in to Richard Sunach. The people you loaded for getting us through the pandemic have asked for a meager pay rise and have been forced to strike against their own ethical and moral standards. Do you take full or part responsibility? And if not, who or what is to blame? And in answer to that question, will you also be standing aside at the next Senate elections? I don't think it's that people have predicted that I wouldn't be the leader. I think I made it absolutely clear myself five years ago that I would not be. And my plans have not changed. And I've repeated them so many times. I don't think I need to repeat them again today. Of course, anybody who is involved in the sort of job that I does, that I do has a responsibility for the conduct of public services here in Wales. I'm not going to get drawn into a sort of it's worse over there than it is over here. Sort of discussion. It helps nobody who is waiting for treatment in England or in Wales. And it's often very inaccurately played out. So if you want a hard fact based simply on the information that is not published by government, but is in the public domain that in each of the last three months, the performance of major emergency departments in Wales has exceeded the performance of those departments in England. That is just a matter of the of the record. I take responsibility for what happens here in Wales together with my ministerial colleagues and with all those people who work in the health service in every part of Wales. And who, as I've said repeatedly this morning, work so very determinedly, sometimes under very challenging conditions to make sure that people in Wales continue to have a health service they can rely on. We feel from you on your ministers time and time again that the problems Wales faces economically and the knock-on effects of that can be claimed entirely on the conservative government at Westminster. Labour are ahead in the polls and the run up to the next general election. Can you categorically say that a Labour government in Westminster and a Labour government in Wales will make a difference, not just sticking plaster and restore the equilibrium and put an end to the excuses for the failings in government? Well, I can categorically say to you absolutely that having a Labour government to work with at Westminster would be a transformative experience for a Labour government here in Wales. Again, as I've said in the past, the history of the two decades of devolution is a game of two halves. In the first year, first decade of devolution, when there was a Labour government in Westminster, the budgets available to support public services in Wales grew in real terms every single year throughout the whole of the decade. The second decade has been a decade of austerity when the resources available for public services across the United Kingdom have been squeezed and squeezed and squeezed every time on the promise that provided we took that medicine, the promised land was just around the corner. It would all be over. I remember hearing George Osborne say before 2015, and here we are again on the same path, further cuts, further austerity, highest taxes for 70 years. That is the reality facing people in Wales. That explains why Labour is in the position we are in in the opinion polls and the chance to work with a government, even in those challenging circumstances, with a different set of values, a different set of purposes, of course it would make the most enormous difference to us here in Wales. Alun i chi'n fawr. Thank you all very much indeed.