English: Well, I'd like to thank Mark Isherwood for his long-standing chairing of the cross-party group on disability - and I always welcome the invitation to come, as you know, Mark, to meet with the stakeholders, partners and disabled people who come together when you chair that cross-party group - and also the fact that you do raise these issues, and they're raised in a cross-party spirit, raising with me in Welsh Govenrment. But I do have to say that, actually, the disability equality forum - and the membership crosses over between the disability equality forum - was the first port of call that I met with as the pandemic took hold in March 2020, and their impact and the advice and the guidance from that disability equality forum has steered and actually changed the way the Welsh Government has responded to the pandemic, affecting disabled people. And of course, then, we encouraged and enabled this 'Locked out' report to help take us forward in terms of the disability rights taskforce, which I'm sure we will be coming to discuss at the cross-party group very shortly. It was important that the Deputy Minister for Climate Change set up an expert taskforce group to tackle issues around access to pavements - the access to pavements disability code, which was very important in terms of the impacts of that. We had a working group set up to draft new enforcement guidance for local authorities, to bring legislation in in the summer of 2022, taking action where vehicles, for example, were causing obstruction on the pavement. This is a cross-Government responsibility in terms of ensuring that we do meet the needs of disabled people. During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, I chaired eight disability equality forums. We did have discussions on a variety of concerns, but also, as I said, influencing new strategies like the national transport strategy and the COVID-19 sub-group just also having an impact on leading to this disability rights taskforce. I think it's very important also in terms of public bodies, and you mentioned those, and the fact is there is a variety of implementation, and that's why the Welsh Local Government Association has committed to our disability rights taskforce - they're sitting on the taskforce - and also we are reviewing the public sector equality duty, and that is crucial in terms of the public sector equality duty under the Equality Act 2010. We are committed ourselves as a Government to being an exemplar employer as well, and also we're aligning research findings in the recently published report on strengthening and advancing equality and human rights with the review of the public sector equality duty. I've already answered questions about the social services and well-being Act, the duty for local authorities and health boards to work together and assess needs, and also, in terms of autism, the statutory code of practice on the delivery of autism services, a programme for government commitment. Of course, it came into effect in September this year.
Welsh: Wel, hoffwn ddiolch i Mark Isherwood am gadeirio'r grŵp trawsbleidiol ar anabledd ers tro - ac rwyf wastad yn croesawu'r gwahoddiad i ddod, fel y gwyddoch chi, Mark, i gyfarfod â'r rhanddeiliaid, partneriaid a'r bobl anabl sy'n dod at ei gilydd pan fyddwch yn cadeirio'r grŵp trawsbleidiol hwnnw - a hefyd y ffaith eich bod yn codi'r materion hyn, ac maen nhw'n cael eu codi mewn ysbryd trawsbleidiol, fe'u dygir at fy sylw i yn Llywodraeth Cymru. Ond mae'n rhaid i mi ddweud, mewn gwirionedd, mai'r fforwm cydraddoldeb i bobl anabl - ac mae'r aelodaeth yn gorgyffwrdd ag aelodaeth y fforwm cydraddoldeb i bobl anabl - oedd y grwp cyntaf y cyfarfûm ag ef wrth i'r pandemig afael ynom ym mis Mawrth 2020, ac mae eu heffaith a'r cyngor a'r arweiniad gan y fforwm cydraddoldeb anabledd hwnnw wedi llywio a newid y ffordd y mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi ymateb i'r pandemig, gan effeithio ar bobl anabl. Ac wrth gwrs, yna, fe wnaethom ni annog a galluogi'r adroddiad 'Drws ar Glo' hwn i'n helpu i ddywn y maen i'r wal o ran y tasglu hawliau anabledd, ac rwy'n siŵr y byddwn yn ymgynnull i'w drafod yn y grŵp trawsbleidiol yn fuan iawn. Roedd yn bwysig i'r Dirprwy Weinidog Newid Hinsawdd sefydlu grŵp tasglu arbenigol i fynd i'r afael â materion yn ymwneud â gallu defnyddio palmentydd - y cod anabledd mynediad i balmentydd, a oedd yn bwysig iawn o ran effeithiau hynny. Fe wnaethom ni sefydlu gweithgor i ddrafftio canllawiau gorfodi newydd ar gyfer awdurdodau lleol, i gyflwyno deddfwriaeth yn ystod haf 2022, gan gymryd camau lle'r oedd cerbydau, er enghraifft, yn rhwystro palmentyndd. Mae hwn yn gyfrifoldeb i'r holl Lywodraeth o ran sicrhau ein bod yn diwallu anghenion pobl anabl. Yn ystod pandemig COVID-19, cadeiriais wyth fforwm cydraddoldeb anabledd. Cawsom drafodaethau ar amrywiaeth o bryderon, ond hefyd, fel y dywedais, mae dylanwadu ar strategaethau newydd fel y strategaeth drafnidiaeth genedlaethol ac is-grŵp COVID-19 hefyd yn cael effaith ar arwain at y tasglu hawliau anabledd hwn. Credaf ei bod yn bwysig iawn hefyd o ran cyrff cyhoeddus, ac fe wnaethoch chi sôn am y rheini, a'r gwir amdani yw y gweithredwyd mewn sawl modd, a dyna pam mae Cymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru wedi ymrwymo i'n tasglu hawliau anabledd - maent yn eistedd ar y tasglu - a hefyd rydym yn adolygu dyletswydd cydraddoldeb y sector cyhoeddus, ac mae hynny'n hollbwysig o ran dyletswydd cydraddoldeb y sector cyhoeddus o dan Ddeddf Cydraddoldeb 2010. Rydym ni, y Llywodraeth, wedi ymrwymo i fod yn gyflogwr enghreifftiol yn ogystal, a hefyd rydym yn cysoni canfyddiadau ymchwil yn yr adroddiad a gyhoeddwyd yn ddiweddar ar gryfhau a hyrwyddo cydraddoldeb a hawliau dynol gyda'r adolygiad o ddyletswydd cydraddoldeb y sector cyhoeddus. Rwyf eisoes wedi ateb cwestiynau am y Ddeddf gwasanaethau cymdeithasol a llesiant, y ddyletswydd i awdurdodau lleol a byrddau iechyd gydweithio ac asesu anghenion, a hefyd, o ran awtistiaeth, y cod ymarfer statudol ar ddarparu gwasanaethau awtistiaeth, rhaglen ar gyfer ymrwymiad y llywodraeth. Wrth gwrs, daeth i rym ym mis Medi eleni.