English: One of the family units most vulnerable to poverty is that headed by a woman, and women are more likely to live in poverty for a longer period of time and to have more recurrent spells of poverty, which obviously affects children in families where the mother is a single parent. So, I think you do have particular patterns of families where some additional help or support is needed. I commend the Welsh Government on its bold childcare offer, because I do think that this is one of the ways that we are going to actually tackle poverty, by providing the opportunity for women in particular, because they do suffer disproportionately, to have the opportunity of getting into the workforce. Obviously, when they get into the workforce, we then have to tackle all the issues that Mike Hedges has raised in his contribution about living wage and zero-hours contracts. But I think the fact that we are actually taking this step forward is a real commitment to eradicate child poverty, and one of the most crucial things that we can do. So, does he expect that, when we've done the pilot schemes and we're actually implementing that policy, that this will directly help deal with poverty? I just wanted to reiterate again the huge geographical inequalities there are about levels of poverty. I think you've only to look in Cardiff, our capital city. We've got the lowest levels of child poverty, and we've got the highest level of child poverty. It's very difficult to think in a homogeneous whole about how you tackle these issues. My own constituency of Cardiff North has got one of the lowest levels of child poverty, yet there are areas where I know that there are individual families and individual children who are not fulfilling their potential as we would all want them to do. How we actually get to the nitty-gritty of how we deal with those issues on the ground I think is one of the huge challenges, but I think there is no doubt that there is the commitment here to end child poverty. But I think we've just got to - . We do have to remember and repeat that we don't have all the levers. We probably don't have the most important levers in order to end child poverty, but we must do what we can with what we've got. As I say, I commend the childcare offer as a major way of doing that.
Welsh: Un o'r unedau teuluol sy'n fwyaf agored i dlodi yw'r un sy'n cael ei harwain gan fenyw, ac mae menywod yn fwy tebygol o fyw mewn tlodi am gyfnod hwy o amser a chael cyfnodau mwy rheolaidd o dlodi, sy'n amlwg yn effeithio ar blant mewn teuluoedd lle mae'r fam yn rhiant sengl. Felly, rwy'n credu bod gennych batrymau penodol o deuluoedd lle mae angen rhywfaint o help neu gefnogaeth ychwanegol. Cymeradwyaf Lywodraeth Cymru ar ei chynnig dewr o ran gofal plant, gan fy mod i o'r farn bod hon yn un o'r ffyrdd yr ydym mewn gwirionedd yn trechu tlodi, drwy roi cyfle i fenywod yn benodol, oherwydd maent yn dioddef yn anghymesur, cyfle i ymuno â'r gweithlu. Yn amlwg, pan fyddant yn ymuno â'r gweithlu, yna bydd yn rhaid i ni fynd i'r afael â'r holl faterion y mae Mike Hedges wedi'u codi yn ei gyfraniad ef am gyflog byw a chontractau dim oriau. Ond rwy'n credu bod y ffaith ein bod yn bwrw ymlaen â'r cam hwn yn ymrwymiad gwirioneddol i ddileu tlodi plant, ac yn un o'r pethau mwyaf hanfodol y gallwn ei wneud. Felly, a yw'n disgwyl, pan fyddwn wedi gwneud y cynlluniau peilot a phan fyddwn mewn gwirionedd yn gweithredu'r polisi hwnnw, y bydd hyn yn helpu yn uniongyrchol i ymdrin â thlodi? Roeddwn eisiau sôn eto am yr anghydraddoldebau enfawr daearyddol o ran lefelau tlodi. Edrychwch ar Gaerdydd, ein prifddinas. Mae gennym y lefelau isaf o dlodi plant, ac mae gennym y lefel uchaf o dlodi plant. Mae'n anodd iawn meddwl yn unffurf sut i fynd i'r afael â'r materion hyn. Mae gan fy etholaeth i, sef Gogledd Caerdydd un o'r lefelau isaf o dlodi plant, ac eto ceir ardaloedd lle'r wyf yn gwybod bod teuluoedd unigol a phlant unigol nad ydynt yn cyflawni eu potensial fel y byddem i gyd yn dymuno iddynt ei wneud. Yn fy marn i, un o'r heriau mawr yw sut o ddifrif y gallwn fynd i fanylder ymdrin â'r materion hynny ar lawr gwlad. Yn sicr mae ymrwymiad yma i roi terfyn ar dlodi plant. Ond rwy'n credu bod yn rhaid i ni - . Mae'n rhaid i ni gofio ac ailadrodd nad yw'r holl ddulliau gennym. Yn ôl pob tebyg nid oes gennym y dulliau pwysicaf r mwyn dileu tlodi plant, ond rhaid inni wneud yr hyn a allwn gyda'r hyn sydd gennym. Fel y dywedais, rwy'n cymeradwyo'r cynnig gofal plant fel ffordd bwysig o wneud hynny.