English: Diolch, and thank you very much for those very positive comments and your welcome for this as a step towards the - a step in the right direction, shall we say? I absolutely support the comments that the Member has made. We do want to reach parity of pay and respect. We know what a hugely responsible job care workers are doing, and we do see this, again, as, I say, a first step on that journey. In terms of the pace of the roll-out, I said in my statement who would be actually receiving it, and that is all care workers who are directly providing care who work in care homes, those who provide care in people's homes, the domiciliary care workforce, and personal assistants who receive direct payments. So, all those groups will start receiving the living wage from April. We see the first year as a transition year, but we intend all those people to receive the money during this next financial year. It may, because of the complexity of the sector, because of the vast number of employers - . Because 80 per cent of this is in the private sector, this will mean that it may take some time to work out, but we hope that they should get it between April and June, and the same is true of the £1,000 payment. His last point about unpaid carers, I couldn't agree more. I think unpaid carers have borne a huge brunt of the burden during the whole of this pandemic, and absolutely agree that they have suffered financial hardship. We know that, and we have seen, from all the carers surveys that have been done, the stress that they've been under. I regret the fact that we are not in control of carer's allowance here in Wales, and I am very well aware of the demands from the sector that there should be an uplift to the carer's allowance.
Welsh: Diolch yn fawr am y sylwadau cadarnhaol iawn yna ac am groesawu hyn fel cam tuag at - cam i'r cyfeiriad cywir, ddywedwn ni? Rwy'n llwyr gefnogi'r sylwadau y mae'r Aelod wedi'u gwneud. Rydym eisiau cyrraedd cydraddoldeb cyflog a pharch. Gwyddom fod gweithwyr gofal yn gwneud gwaith hynod gyfrifol a gwelwn hwn, unwaith eto, fel y dywedaf, fel y cam cyntaf ar y daith honno. O ran cyflymder cyflwyno'r cynllun, dywedais yn fy natganiad pwy fyddai'n ei gael mewn gwirionedd, sef yr holl weithwyr gofal sy'n darparu gofal yn uniongyrchol ac sy'n gweithio mewn cartrefi gofal, y rhai sy'n darparu gofal yng nghartrefi pobl, y gweithlu gofal cartref, a chynorthwywyr personol sy'n cael taliadau uniongyrchol. Felly, bydd yr holl grwpiau hynny'n dechrau cael y cyflog byw o fis Ebrill ymlaen. Gwelwn y flwyddyn gyntaf fel blwyddyn bontio, ond bwriadwn i'r holl bobl hynny gael yr arian yn ystod y flwyddyn ariannol nesaf hon. Oherwydd cymhlethdod y sector, oherwydd y nifer fawr o gyflogwyr - . Gan fod 80 y cant o hyn yn y sector preifat, bydd hyn yn golygu y gallai gymryd peth amser i weithio allan, ond gobeithiwn y dylen nhw ei gael rhwng mis Ebrill a mis Mehefin, ac mae'r un peth yn wir am y taliad o £1,000. Ei bwynt olaf am ofalwyr di-dâl, ni allwn i gytuno mwy. Rwy'n credu bod gofalwyr di-dâl wedi ysgwyddo llawer o'r baich yn ystod y pandemig hwn, ac rwy'n cytuno'n llwyr eu bod wedi dioddef caledi ariannol. Gwyddom hynny, ac rydym wedi gweld, o'r holl arolygon gofalwyr sydd wedi'u cynnal, y straen y maen nhw wedi'i ddioddef. Rwy'n gresynu at y ffaith nad ydym yn rheoli lwfans gofalwr yma yng Nghymru, ac rwy'n ymwybodol iawn o'r galwadau gan y sector y dylid cynyddu lwfans gofalwr.