English: I thank the Member very much for those remarks, and I'd like to reiterate our total commitment to the social care workforce. The pay issue has certainly not been kicked into the long grass. As I said in my statement, we need to do this carefully and cautiously because it is a very complex - . The care sector is very complex, and we need to do it in partnership, working with trade unions, working with employers and working with other interested parties. I think it is essential that we move forward in that sort of way, and it would be very foolish to try to rush and do that. Nevertheless, we do want to move as quickly as we can because we recognise that social care staff have been paid a very lowly wage for a very long time. So, we do intend to implement some parts of the sector as soon as we can. I hope by April next year that we will be able to start paying some parts of the sector, but we are depending on the social care fair work forum to work with us, in the joint way that I've described, to decide who should be the first social care workers to receive the uplift. And, of course, to work with the local authorities, whom he mentioned, to make sure that we are all working together to reach a common goal, because I think what the pandemic has done is make everybody realise that we do want to ensure that social care workers do get a better deal, and they certainly don't have that now. We are paying the real living wage and that is a priority in our programme for government and, of course, it's a rate of pay that is independently calculated every year to meet the real cost of living. And it is reviewed - the Living Wage Foundation accredits organisations that pay the living wage - and so this is really, I think, the most appropriate way to move forward. But we do know that more will be needed to be done, but I think the delivery of the real living wage will make a real difference to care workers' lives. But we do accept that it is one step forward. I think he referred to the demoralisation of the care staff. Certainly, they've been through a huge upheaval and faced tremendous difficulties that we could never have imagined that they would have done. But I do think that the payment of the two lots of special bonuses was a great uplift to them, because many of them spoke to me and said how this did make them feel that they were being acknowledged, and that their work was being acknowledged. So, I think that was very important. We have worked very hard on trying to increase the professionalisation of the social care staff by registration. That's something that we were doing before the pandemic hit us, and I think it is something that will ensure that the social care staff have pride in their profession. So, I thank him for his remarks, but I think we are going on the right way.
Welsh: Diolch yn fawr iawn i'r Aelod am y sylwadau yna, a hoffwn i ailadrodd ein hymrwymiad llwyr i'r gweithlu gofal cymdeithasol. Yn sicr, nid yw'r mater cyflog wedi'i fwrw ymaith. Fel y dywedais i yn fy natganiad, mae angen i ni wneud hyn yn ofalus ac yn ochelgar oherwydd ei fod yn gymhleth iawn - . Mae'r sector gofal yn gymhleth iawn, ac mae angen i ni wneud hynny mewn partneriaeth, gan weithio gydag undebau llafur, gweithio gyda chyflogwyr a gweithio gyda phartïon eraill â diddordeb. Rwy'n credu ei bod yn hanfodol i ni symud ymlaen yn y math hwnnw o ffordd, a byddai'n ffôl iawn ceisio rhuthro a gwneud hynny. Serch hynny, rydym ni eisiau symud cyn gynted ag y gallwn ni oherwydd ein bod ni'n cydnabod bod staff gofal cymdeithasol wedi cael cyflog isel iawn am gyfnod hir iawn. Felly, rydym ni'n bwriadu gweithredu rhai rhannau o'r sector cyn gynted ag y gallwn ni. Rwy'n gobeithio erbyn mis Ebrill y flwyddyn nesaf y byddwn ni'n gallu dechrau talu rhai rhannau o'r sector, ond rydym ni'n dibynnu ar y fforwm gwaith teg gofal cymdeithasol i weithio gyda ni, yn y ffordd ar y cyd yr wyf wedi'i disgrifio, i benderfynu pwy ddylai fod y gweithwyr gofal cymdeithasol cyntaf i gael y cynnydd. Ac, wrth gwrs, gweithio gyda'r awdurdodau lleol, yr oedd ef wedi sôn amdanyn nhw, i sicrhau ein bod ni i gyd yn gweithio gyda'n gilydd i gyrraedd nod cyffredin, oherwydd rwy'n credu mai'r hyn y mae'r pandemig wedi'i wneud yw gwneud i bawb sylweddoli ein bod ni eisiau sicrhau bod gweithwyr gofal cymdeithasol yn cael gwell cytundeb, ac yn sicr nid oes ganddyn nhw hynny nawr. Rydym ni'n talu'r cyflog byw gwirioneddol ac mae hynny'n flaenoriaeth yn ein rhaglen lywodraethu ac, wrth gwrs, mae'n gyfradd gyflogau sy'n cael ei chyfrifo'n annibynnol bob blwyddyn i dalu gwir gostau byw. A chaiff ei adolygu - mae'r Sefydliad Cyflog Byw yn achredu sefydliadau sy'n talu'r cyflog byw - ac felly dyma'r ffordd fwyaf priodol, rwy'n credu, o symud ymlaen. Ond rydym ni'n ymwybodol y bydd angen gwneud mwy, ond rwy'n credu y bydd darparu'r cyflog byw gwirioneddol yn gwneud gwahaniaeth gwirioneddol i fywydau gweithwyr gofal. Ond rydym ni'n derbyn ei fod yn un cam ymlaen. Rwy'n credu iddo gyfeirio at ddigalonni'r staff gofal. Yn sicr, maen nhw wedi bod drwy newid enfawr ac wedi wynebu anawsterau aruthrol na allem ni fyth fod wedi dychmygu y bydden nhw wedi'u gwneud. Ond rwy'n credu bod talu'r ddau daliad bonws arbennig yn gynnydd mawr iddyn nhw, oherwydd siaradodd llawer ohonyn nhw â mi a dweud sut roedd hyn yn gwneud iddyn nhw deimlo eu bod yn cael eu cydnabod, a bod eu gwaith yn cael ei gydnabod. Felly, rwy'n credu bod hynny'n bwysig iawn. Rydym ni wedi gweithio'n galed iawn i geisio cynyddu'r gwaith o broffesiynoli'r staff gofal cymdeithasol drwy gofrestru. Mae hynny'n rhywbeth yr oeddem ni'n ei wneud cyn i'r pandemig ein taro ni, ac rwy'n credu ei fod yn rhywbeth a fydd yn sicrhau bod y staff gofal cymdeithasol yn ymfalchïo yn eu proffesiwn. Felly, diolchaf iddo ef am ei sylwadau, ond rwy'n credu ein bod ni'n mynd ar y ffordd iawn.