English: Thank you, Presiding Officer. There is a community of interest throughout the Swansea bay city region. Swansea was the largest city in western Europe to be a recipient of objective 1 funding. I have no pride in that whatsoever. Throughout the region, we have Port Talbot with steel, Llanelli with tinplate, Pembrokeshire with energy, Carmarthenshire with agriculture and Swansea with major Government services such as the DVLA. The area has Swansea University and the University of Wales Trinity St David on several sites. So, why is it relatively poor? The cause, as with everywhere that is relatively poor, is too many people working irregular hours on the minimum wage. I welcome the Swansea bay city deal, and I congratulate the councils, the Welsh and Westminster Governments for their support for this deal. While helpful, this will not transform the economy. If the Swansea bay region is to have a successful, vibrant and thriving economy, we need to concentrate on key growth areas and support those industries with grants, incentives and other help. We can no longer hope that offering companies more than anywhere else to bring a branch factory will develop our economy, especially as most of these branch factories close down in a very short time. Although everyone will have different ideas on which sectors to support, it's my belief that we must concentrate on supporting and nurturing the life sciences, ICT, creative industries, advanced manufacturing and professional services. The evidence also tells us that businesses in the life sciences sector can grow very quickly in a global market, with the rewards for success being huge. This means that a small number of successful businesses in the life sciences industry have the power and potential to generate great economic value for the city region, creating well-paid jobs. Professional and financial services are, however, sectors where Wales, particularly outside Cardiff, remains weak or very weak. We need to develop our professional services and use the flourishing university sector to generate employment in the area. In the 1970s and 1980s, Swansea University was at the forefront of finite element analysis, yet Wales generated very little, if any, benefit from it. Professional services in finance and engineering can generate high salaries and also produce clusters of related activity. We have a major and well-respected insurance company in the area, but we desperately need to attract and support more high-value and high-wage employment in the financial sector. One key industry that is not geographically constrained, and has the ability to generate huge wealth, is ICT. There is a tendency for ICT companies to cluster, not just in Cambridge and Silicon Valley, but around other university cities, and around places like Leamington Spa. With the quality of ICT graduates being produced in the Welsh universities, it has to be a severe disappointment that Wales has a lower proportion of its population working for ICT companies than the rest of the UK. Developing an economy is about developing and promoting high-value economic sectors. We will not develop a successful economy and high gross value added on low pay and seasonal work. We, therefore, need a strategy for each of these targeted growth sectors.
Welsh: Diolch, Lywydd. Ceir cymuned fuddiant ledled dinas-ranbarth bae Abertawe. Abertawe oedd y ddinas fwyaf yng ngorllewin Ewrop i dderbyn cyllid amcan 1. Nid yw hynny'n destun balchder i mi o gwbl. Drwy'r rhanbarth, mae gennym Bort Talbot gyda dur, Llanelli gyda thunplat, sir Benfro gydag ynni, sir Gaerfyrddin gydag amaethyddiaeth ac Abertawe gyda gwasanaethau mawr y Llywodraeth fel y DVLA. Mae gan yr ardal Brifysgol Abertawe a Phrifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant ar sawl safle. Felly, pam fod yr ardal yn gymharol dlawd? Yr achos, fel ym mhob man sy'n gymharol dlawd, yw gormod o bobl yn gweithio oriau afreolaidd ar yr isafswm cyflog. Rwy'n croesawu bargen ddinesig bae Abertawe, ac rwy'n llongyfarch y cynghorau a Llywodraethau Cymru a San Steffan am eu cefnogaeth i'r fargen hon. Er ei bod yn ddefnyddiol, ni fydd hyn yn trawsnewid yr economi. Os yw rhanbarth bae Abertawe am gael economi lwyddiannus, fywiog a ffyniannus, mae angen inni ganolbwyntio ar feysydd twf allweddol a chefnogi'r diwydiannau hynny gyda grantiau, cymhellion a chymorth arall. Ni allwn obeithio mwyach y bydd cynnig mwy nag unrhyw le arall i gwmnïau ddod â ffatri gangen yn datblygu ein heconomi, yn enwedig gan fod y rhan fwyaf o'r ffatrïoedd cangen hyn yn cau mewn cyfnod byr iawn. Er y bydd gan bawb syniadau gwahanol ar ba sectorau i'w cefnogi, rwy'n credu bod yn rhaid inni ganolbwyntio ar gefnogi a meithrin y gwyddorau bywyd, TGCh, diwydiannau creadigol, gweithgynhyrchu uwch a gwasanaethau proffesiynol. Mae'r dystiolaeth hefyd yn dweud wrthym y gall busnesau yn y sector gwyddorau bywyd dyfu'n gyflym iawn mewn marchnad fyd-eang, ac mae'r gwobrau am lwyddiant yn enfawr. Mae hyn yn golygu bod gan nifer fach o fusnesau llwyddiannus yn y diwydiant gwyddorau bywyd bŵer a photensial i gynhyrchu gwerth economaidd mawr i'r ddinas-ranbarth, gan greu swyddi sy'n talu'n dda. Fodd bynnag, mae gwasanaethau proffesiynol ac ariannol yn sectorau lle mae Cymru, yn enwedig y tu allan i Gaerdydd, yn parhau i fod yn wan neu'n wan iawn. Mae angen inni ddatblygu ein gwasanaethau proffesiynol a defnyddio'r sector prifysgolion sy'n ffynnu i gynhyrchu cyflogaeth yn yr ardal. Yn y 1970au a'r 1980au, roedd Prifysgol Abertawe ar flaen y gad ym maes dadansoddi elfennau cyfyngedig, ac eto ychydig iawn o fudd a gafodd Cymru o hynny, os o gwbl. Gall gwasanaethau proffesiynol ym maes cyllid a pheirianneg gynhyrchu cyflogau uchel yn ogystal â chlystyrau o weithgarwch cysylltiedig. Mae gennym gwmni yswiriant mawr ac uchel ei barch yn yr ardal, ond mae gwir angen inni ddenu a chefnogi mwy o gyflogaeth gwerth uchel ar gyflogau uchel yn y sector ariannol. Un diwydiant allweddol nad yw wedi'i gyfyngu'n ddaearyddol, ac sydd â'r gallu i gynhyrchu cyfoeth enfawr, yw TGCh. Mae tuedd i gwmnïau TGCh glystyru, nid yn unig yng Nghaergrawnt a Silicon Valley, ond o amgylch dinasoedd prifysgol eraill, ac o amgylch lleoedd fel Leamington Spa. Gydag ansawdd y graddedigion TGCh a gynhyrchir ym mhrifysgolion Cymru, mae'n siom ddifrifol fod gan Gymru gyfran is o'i phoblogaeth yn gweithio i gwmnïau TGCh na gweddill y DU. Mae datblygu economi yn ymwneud â datblygu a hyrwyddo sectorau economaidd gwerth uchel. Ni fyddwn yn datblygu economi lwyddiannus a gwerth ychwanegol gros uchel ar gyflogau isel a gwaith tymhorol. Felly, rydym angen strategaeth ar gyfer pob un o'r sectorau twf a dargedir.