English: I thank Mark Reckless for those questions. I tried in my statement to cover a lot of ground, and I tried to make sure that I paid proper regard to the contribution that businesses, both public sector employers and private sector employers, have made to the development of social partnership here in Wales. It was very pleasing to see the welcome that both the Confederation of British Industry and the Federation of Small Businesses gave to the report of the Fair Work Commission, and my view is that businesses are equal partners around that table. And they're equal partners with Government as well. I don't see Government as a facilitator in the way that Mark Reckless suggested; Government is a partner in a tripartite arrangement. Government is there, trade unions are there, employers are there, and we come together with our different responsibilities and our different capacities to act to focus on problems that are shared between us and where our collective focus on them can lead to best outcomes. Of course, we do want more return on the investment that the Welsh taxpayer makes in building the Welsh economy. We are very keen to go on as a Government investing in the Welsh economy, investing in skills, investing in infrastructure, investing in assisting individual businesses, where there is a case to do so. But, in return, it is right that when the Welsh taxpayer is making that contribution, that it is able to say to those who benefit from that contribution that, for example, we look to them to provide proper occupational health facilities for people who work for them. We look to them to invest in the continuing skills of that workforce. We look to them to respond to the call that is often made around this Chamber to ensure that the mental health and well-being of people who work in those sectors is taken care of as well. All of those are public goods, all of those are objectives, I think, widely shared across the Chamber and, where Welsh public money is being spent, we think we have a right to ask that it delivers on those wider agendas as well. When things are not delivered, does that mean that organisations are excluded from bidding for contracts? Well, it depends on what is going wrong. If companies act outside the law, by blacklisting, for example, then they cannot expect that they will get contracts from the public purse. When it is that a company is working hard to reach a point in an agreement that we have struck with them but they're not yet at that point in, for example, having an occupational health service, well, of course, that would not exclude a company from participating or bidding for a contract. So it depends on the nature of the issue at hand. I'm very grateful to the Member for his description of Part 1 of the Equality Act as 'socialism in one clause'; it encourages me no end to make sure that we get it and the Bill in front of the Assembly. We are still working, to answer Mark Reckless's specific question, on the best way to commence it. It may be through the Bill, it may be that we can do it more rapidly, but your recollection of 'socialism in one clause' encourages me to bring it in front of the Assembly as fast as possible.
Welsh: Diolch i Mark Reckless am y cwestiynau hynny. Ceisiais yn fy natganiad ymdrin â llawer agwedd, a cheisiais sicrhau fy mod yn rhoi sylw priodol i'r cyfraniad y mae busnesau, yn gyflogwyr y sector cyhoeddus a chyflogwyr y sector preifat, wedi'i wneud i ddatblygiad partneriaeth gymdeithasol yma yng Nghymru. Roedd hi'n braf iawn gweld y croeso a roddodd Cydffederasiwn Diwydiant Prydain a'r Ffederasiwn Busnesau Bach i adroddiad y Comisiwn Gwaith Teg, a'm barn i yw bod busnesau'n bartneriaid cydradd o gwmpas y bwrdd hwnnw. Ac maen nhw'n bartneriaid cydradd â'r Llywodraeth hefyd. Nid wyf yn gweld Llywodraeth fel hwylusydd yn y ffordd yr awgrymodd Mark Reckless; mae'r Llywodraeth yn bartner mewn trefniant teirochrog. Mae'r Llywodraeth yn rhan, mae undebau llafur yn rhan, mae cyflogwyr yn rhan, a deuwn ynghyd â'n cyfrifoldebau gwahanol a'n galluoedd gwahanol i weithredu i ganolbwyntio ar broblemau yr ydym ni'n eu rhannu ymysg ein gilydd a lle gallwn ni, drwy ddal sylw gyda'n gilydd, gael gwell deilliannau. Wrth gwrs, mae arnom ni eisiau mwy o adenillion ar y buddsoddiad a wneir gan drethdalwyr Cymru wrth adeiladu economi Cymru. Rydym ni'n awyddus iawn i ddal ati fel Llywodraeth i fuddsoddi yn economi Cymru, buddsoddi mewn sgiliau, buddsoddi mewn seilwaith, buddsoddi mewn cynorthwyo busnesau unigol, lle mae achos i wneud hynny. Ond, yn gyfnewid, mae'n briodol, pan fydd y trethdalwr yng Nghymru yn gwneud y cyfraniad hwnnw, ei fod yn gallu dweud wrth y rhai sy'n elwa ar y cyfraniad hwnnw ein bod, er enghraifft, yn disgwyl iddyn nhw ddarparu cyfleusterau iechyd galwedigaethol priodol i bobl sy'n gweithio iddyn nhw. Rydym ni'n disgwyl iddyn nhw fuddsoddi yn sgiliau parhaus y gweithlu hwnnw. Rydym ni'n disgwyl iddyn nhw ymateb i'r gri a glywir yn aml yn y Siambr hon i sicrhau bod iechyd meddwl a lles pobl sy'n gweithio yn y sectorau hynny yn cael gofal hefyd. Mae'r rhain i gyd yn nwyddau cyhoeddus, mae'r rhain i gyd yn amcanion, rwy'n credu, y mae cefnogaeth eang iddyn nhw drwy'r Siambr, lle caiff arian cyhoeddus Cymru'n ei wario, credwn fod gennym ni'r hawl i ofyn iddo gyflawni'r agendâu ehangach hynny hefyd. Pan na chaiff pethau eu cyflawni, a yw hynny'n golygu bod sefydliadau'n cael eu heithrio rhag gwneud cais am gontractau? Wel, mae'n dibynnu ar yr hyn sy'n mynd o'i le. Os na fydd cwmnïau'n gweithredu yn unol â'r gyfraith, drwy gosbrestru, er enghraifft, ni allant ddisgwyl y byddant yn cael contractau o bwrs y wlad. Pan fo cwmni'n gweithio'n galed i gyflawni agwedd ar gytundeb yr ydym ni wedi'i daro gyda nhw ond nad ydyn nhw wedi cyflawni hynny eto, er enghraifft, cael gwasanaeth iechyd galwedigaethol, wel, wrth gwrs, ni fyddai hynny'n eithrio cwmni rhag cymryd rhan na gwneud cais am gontract. Felly mae'n dibynnu ar natur y mater dan sylw. Rwy'n ddiolchgar iawn i'r Aelod am ei ddisgrifiad o ran 1 o'r Ddeddf Cydraddoldeb fel 'sosialaeth mewn un cymal'; mae'n fy annog i wneud yn siŵr ein bod yn cyflwyno'r Ddeddf a'r Bil gerbron y Cynulliad. Rydym ni'n dal i weithio, i ateb cwestiwn penodol Mark Reckless, ynglŷn â'r ffordd orau i'w chychwyn. Efallai y bydd hynny'n digwydd drwy'r Bil, efallai y gallwn ni ei gwneud yn gyflymach, ond mae eich atgof o 'sosialaeth mewn un cymal' yn fy annog i'w chyflwyno gerbron y Cynulliad mor gyflym ag sy'n bosib.