English: We have to recognise that there's a huge issue with disabled people in terms of the disability pay gap. Recent Office for National Statistics figures show that the disability pay gap was still 9.9 per cent in 2018, earning less per hour than non-disabled people. It's smaller in Wales, the pay gap for disabled people, than the rest of the UK. But we're now, as I talked about, going to have this equality data unit, and we have got the power of the public purse and social partnership approach to fair work practices, which is key to address those issues. I'm glad you've mentioned the barriers that disabled people face, and I think transport is one area. But with our programme for government commitment, we're improving access to our trains for disabled people. We've committed £800 million to secure new trains, which will provide level boarding and remove the need for passengers to pre-book to ensure station staff are on hand to provide a ramp, and we're also investing over £10 million on three stations on the core Valleys lines. It's all part of the national accessibility for all programme to provide lifts and bridges to ensure passengers with restricted mobility can also better access train services. I think it's also very important you ask those questions about the actual impact so far of our access to elected office fund, and it's still early days to see the impacts of it. I've mentioned the two people who access the fund and that we're extending it, of course, to town and community councils, which I know that you will welcome. But it's important just to, again, provide the information that people can apply for assistance with additional costs of support to overcome barriers and a lack of readily available adaptive technologies. That can include a whole range of additional costs of support, including assistive aids, equipment, software, training in the use of specialist equipment and software, et cetera, and also personal assistance. These are things that we need to learn about here in the Senedd as well, as in local government itself. I think it is very important that you mentioned again the appalling impact of COVID-19 on disabled people. I've made it clear, as I did a year ago, when I spoke on the UN International Day of Disabled People. We have very much engaged with our disabled people's equality forum throughout this past 20 months or so of the pandemic. They have given us so much support and advice in terms of how we respond, to meet the needs of disabled people. I think there are issues. You've raised the issue of flexible working; that has provided opportunities as well as threats in terms of possible isolation. But if there's anything the pandemic has taught employers, it's about how to embrace innovation and flexible ways of working, including remote working. So, this has, to a certain extent, levelled the playing field for some disabled people, and it's removed some of the barriers, such as travel. But there's still a lot to be done in terms of tackling some of those stereotypes and preconceptions that exist about the barriers to a disabled person's employment opportunities, and we have to ensure that we look at their environments and their opportunities in terms of work. Because we really do need to have a renewed focus on our goals to reduce disabled people's employment barriers. I think it's crucially important also, in terms of looking at health and social care, that we recognise that there are ways in which we can support disabled people. The statement made by the Deputy Minister for Social Services last week was very important in meeting the needs of carers, and, of course, we do have our Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2016. Local authorities and health boards have to work together to assess, plan and meet people's care and support needs, including disabled people. And we have provided significant funding to health and social care partners to respond to the impacts of COVID and support recovery, and funding those initiatives and projects that support disabled people through the integrated care fund and grants to third sector organisations. It's important, also, that people are aware of access to direct payments as well, so that people have a voice and control over their care, including the option of direct payments. We have good examples of how local authorities work with people so that they can choose a blended mix of care arranged for them by a local authority and accessing direct care as well. The £10 million to support unpaid carers of all ages, including those caring for disabled people, for 2022, has been very important, and also the announcement, as I said, last week, by Julie Morgan of the £7 million funding to support unpaid carers. What we have to do today is recognise the UN convention on disabled people's rights - that we actually show, today, across the Chamber, a clear commitment to promoting and protecting human rights. It's embedded in the founding legislation of the Welsh Government. But we have a great deal to do in order to actually deliver on that, and I do believe our disability rights taskforce - and it's a disability rights taskforce - will take us forward.
Welsh: Rhaid inni gydnabod bod problem enfawr gyda phobl anabl o ran y bwlch cyflog anabledd. Mae ffigurau diweddar y Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol yn dangos bod y bwlch cyflog anabledd yn dal i fod yn 9.9 y cant yn 2018, a'u bod yn ennill llai yr awr na phobl nad ydyn nhw'n anabl. Mae'n llai yng Nghymru, y bwlch cyflog ar gyfer pobl anabl, na gweddill y DU. Ond byddwn ni bellach, fel y soniais amdano, yn gweld sefydlu yr uned data cydraddoldeb hon, ac mae gennym ni rym y pwrs cyhoeddus a'r dull partneriaeth gymdeithasol o ymdrin ag arferion gwaith teg, sy'n allweddol i fynd i'r afael â'r materion hynny. Rwy'n falch eich bod wedi sôn am y rhwystrau y mae pobl anabl yn eu hwynebu, ac rwy'n credu bod trafnidiaeth yn un maes. Ond gyda'n hymrwymiad yn y rhaglen lywodraethu, rydym yn gwella mynediad i'n trenau i bobl anabl. Rydym ni wedi ymrwymo £800 miliwn i sicrhau trenau newydd, a fydd ar yr un lefel â'r platfform i allu mynd arnynt yn rhwydd gan ddileu'r angen i deithwyr archebu ymlaen llaw i sicrhau bod staff gorsafoedd wrth law i ddarparu ramp. Rydym ni hefyd yn buddsoddi dros £10 miliwn ar dair gorsaf ar brif reilffyrdd y Cymoedd. Mae'r cyfan yn rhan o'r rhaglen genedlaethol hygyrchedd i bawb i ddarparu lifftiau a phontydd i sicrhau bod teithwyr â symudedd cyfyngedig hefyd yn gallu cael mynediad gwell at wasanaethau trên. Credaf ei bod hi hefyd yn bwysig iawn eich bod yn gofyn y cwestiynau hynny am effaith wirioneddol hyd yma ein cronfa mynediad i swyddi etholedig, ac mae'n ddyddiau cynnar o hyd i weld effeithiau hynny. Rwyf wedi sôn am y ddau berson sy'n defnyddio'r gronfa a'n bod yn ei hymestyn, wrth gwrs, i gynghorau tref a chymuned, y gwn y byddwch yn ei groesawu. Ond mae'n bwysig, unwaith eto, darparu'r wybodaeth y gall pobl wneud cais am gymorth gyda chostau cymorth ychwanegol i oresgyn rhwystrau a diffyg technolegau addasol sydd ar gael yn rhwydd. Gall hynny gynnwys ystod eang o gostau cymorth ychwanegol, gan gynnwys cymhorthion cynorthwyol, offer, meddalwedd, hyfforddiant ar ddefnyddio offer a meddalwedd arbenigol, ac ati, a chymorth personol hefyd. Mae'r rhain yn bethau y mae angen inni ddysgu amdanyn nhw yma yn y Senedd hefyd, fel ym maes llywodraeth leol ei hun. Rwy'n credu ei bod hi'n bwysig iawn ichi sôn eto am effaith warthus COVID-19 ar bobl anabl. Rwyf wedi'i gwneud hi'n glir, fel y gwnes flwyddyn yn ôl, pan siaradais ar Ddiwrnod Rhyngwladol Pobl Anabl y Cenhedloedd Unedig. Rydym ni wedi ymgysylltu'n fawr â'n fforwm cydraddoldeb i bobl anabl drwy gydol yr 20 mis diwethaf o'r pandemig. Mae'r fforwm hwnnw wedi rhoi cymaint o gefnogaeth a chyngor i ni o ran sut rydym ni'n ymateb, i ddiwallu anghenion pobl anabl. Rwy'n credu bod problemau. Rydych chi wedi codi mater gweithio hyblyg; sydd wedi darparu cyfleoedd yn ogystal â bygythiadau o ran unigedd posibl. Ond os oes unrhyw beth y mae'r pandemig wedi'i ddysgu i gyflogwyr, mae'n ymwneud â sut i groesawu arloesedd a ffyrdd hyblyg o weithio, gan gynnwys gweithio o bell. Felly, mae hyn, i ryw raddau, wedi gwneud pethau'n decach i rai pobl anabl, ac mae wedi dileu rhai o'r rhwystrau, fel teithio. Ond mae llawer i'w wneud o hyd o ran mynd i'r afael â rhai o'r stereoteipiau a'r rhagdybiaethau hynny sy'n bodoli am y rhwystrau i gyfleoedd cyflogaeth person anabl, ac mae'n rhaid i ni sicrhau ein bod yn edrych ar eu hamgylcheddau a'u cyfleoedd o ran gwaith. Gan fod gwir angen inni ganolbwyntio o'r newydd ar ein nodau i leihau rhwystrau cyflogaeth pobl anabl. Credaf ei bod hi'n hollbwysig hefyd, o ran edrych ar iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol, ein bod yn cydnabod bod ffyrdd y gallwn ni gefnogi pobl anabl. Roedd y datganiad a wnaed gan y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol yr wythnos diwethaf yn bwysig iawn o ran diwallu anghenion gofalwyr, ac, wrth gwrs, mae gennym ni ein Deddf Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a Llesiant (Cymru) 2016. Rhaid i awdurdodau lleol a byrddau iechyd gydweithio i asesu, cynllunio a diwallu anghenion gofal a chymorth pobl, gan gynnwys pobl anabl. Ac rydym ni wedi darparu cyllid sylweddol i bartneriaid iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol i ymateb i effeithiau COVID a chefnogi adferiad, ac ariannu'r mentrau a'r prosiectau hynny sy'n cefnogi pobl anabl drwy'r gronfa gofal integredig a grantiau i sefydliadau'r trydydd sector. Mae'n bwysig, hefyd, bod pobl yn ymwybodol o fynediad at daliadau uniongyrchol hefyd, fel bod gan bobl lais a rheolaeth dros eu gofal, gan gynnwys y posibilrwydd o daliadau uniongyrchol. Mae gennym ni enghreifftiau da o sut mae awdurdodau lleol yn gweithio gyda phobl fel y gallan nhw ddewis cymysgedd cyfunol o ofal a drefnir ar eu cyfer gan awdurdod lleol a chael gofal uniongyrchol hefyd. Mae'r £10 miliwn i gefnogi gofalwyr di-dâl o bob oed, gan gynnwys y rhai sy'n gofalu am bobl anabl, ar gyfer 2022, wedi bod yn bwysig iawn, a hefyd y cyhoeddiad, fel y dywedais, yr wythnos diwethaf, gan Julie Morgan o'r £7 miliwn o gyllid i gefnogi gofalwyr di-dâl. Yr hyn y mae'n rhaid inni ei wneud heddiw yw cydnabod confensiwn y Cenhedloedd Unedig ar hawliau pobl anabl - ein bod ni mewn gwirionedd yn dangos, heddiw, ar draws y Siambr, ymrwymiad clir i hyrwyddo a diogelu hawliau dynol. Mae wedi'i ymgorffori yn neddfwriaeth sylfaenol Llywodraeth Cymru. Ond mae gennym ni lawer i'w wneud er mwyn cyflawni hynny mewn gwirionedd, ac rwy'n credu y bydd ein tasglu hawliau anabledd - a thasglu hawliau anabledd yw hwnnw - yn mynd â ni ymlaen.