English: Thank you for your statement, Minister. I'd just like to pick up on a couple of points from the employability plan itself. First, I welcome the creation of the employment advice gateway. I think that getting advice and support from someone with expertise in drawing out the skills and experience of a work seeker, and who has the knowledge to guide a work seeker through the myriad courses and training that are on offer, is absolutely vital. One question I would like to ask, though, is: who is this going to be available to? Will it just be for NEETs and the unemployed, or will it be available to those in work who want to upskill? I'm very much hoping that you're going to say it's the latter, because we don't just need to get people back into work; we need to help people already in work to earn more and to keep more of their own money as well. A failure of some of the previous schemes to get unemployed people back into work is that they're intended to start to provide support some months into the period of unemployment. Obviously, the longer a person's unemployed, the harder it is for them to find employment, so, it's therefore very important that this advice and support is available from day one, and if the Minister could clarify that for me, I would be very, very grateful for that. Turning to Working Wales, again, this programme has laudable aims and I really do hope that this ambitious plan works in the way it's been intended. However, how are you going to ensure that placing people in education and training will not be used as a cover for unemployment figures, and the Government's failure to provide a business environment that's conducive to job creation? Improving employability has to work in tandem with encouraging investment from those SMEs upon which the majority of people in the UK depend for employment. So, it concerns me that you're looking at placing more obligations on employers. Encouraging employers to take care of the well-being and health of their employees is a perfectly reasonable and laudable request, and, of course, employers are already obliged to ensure the health and safety of their employees and workers. However, Welsh Government needs to be really careful that placing obligations on employers doesn't have the unintended consequence of reducing the level of employment generally, because, obviously, the more expensive employing a person is made, the fewer people will be employed. So, what cost-benefit analysis are you going to undertake to ensure that any new obligations you place on employers don't have the consequence of increasing employment costs and thereby reducing employment levels? Thank you.
Welsh: Diolch ichi am eich datganiad, Gweinidog. Hoffwn fynd ar drywydd ychydig o bwyntiau o'r cynllun cyflogadwyedd ei hun. Yn gyntaf, rwy'n croesawu creu'r porth cyngor ar gyflogaeth. Credaf ei bod yn gwbl hanfodol cael cyngor a chymorth gan rywun sydd ag arbenigedd gydag ennyn sgiliau a phrofiad y sawl sy'n ceisio am waith, ac sydd â gwybodaeth i lywio ceiswyr gwaith drwy'r myrdd o gyrsiau a hyfforddiant sydd ar gael. Un cwestiwn yr hoffwn ei ofyn, serch hynny, yw: i bwy fydd hyn ar gael? A fydd ar gael i bobl ifanc NEET a di-waith yn unig, neu a fydd ar gael i'r rheini sydd mewn gwaith sy'n awyddus i wella eu sgiliau? Rwy'n gobeithio eich bod chi'n mynd i ddweud yr olaf. Nid yn unig y mae angen inni gael pobl yn ôl i'r gwaith; mae angen inni helpu pobl sydd eisoes yn gweithio i ennill a chadw mwy o'u harian eu hunain hefyd. Methiant rhai o'r cynlluniau blaenorol ar gyfer pobl ddi-waith i ddychwelyd i'r gwaith oedd mai'r bwriad oedd eu bod yn dechrau rhoi cymorth rai misoedd i mewn i'r cyfnod o ddiweithdra. Yn amlwg, po hwyaf y bydd rhywun yn ddi-waith, y mwyaf anodd yw dod o hyd i gyflogaeth, felly mae'n bwysig iawn gan hynny fod y cyngor a'r cymorth ar gael o'r dechrau'n deg, a phe byddai'r Gweinidog yn egluro hynny i mi, byddwn yn ddiolchgar tu hwnt. Gan droi at Gymru'n Gweithio, eto, mae gan y rhaglen hon amcanion canmoladwy ac rwy'n gobeithio y bydd y cynllun uchelgeisiol hwn yn gweithio yn y ffordd y cafodd ei fwriadu. Eto i gyd, sut rydych yn bwriadu sicrhau na fydd gosod pobl mewn addysg a hyfforddiant yn cael ei ddefnyddio i guddio'r ffigurau diweithdra, a methiant y Llywodraeth i ddarparu amgylchedd busnes sy'n ffafriol i greu swyddi? Mae gwella cyflogadwyedd yn gorfod gweithio ochr yn ochr ag annog buddsoddiad gan y BBaChau hynny y mae'r rhan fwyaf o bobl yn y DU yn dibynnu arnyn nhw am eu cyflogaeth. Felly, mae'n achos pryder i mi eich bod yn ystyried rhoi mwy o rwymedigaethau ar gyflogwyr. Mae annog cyflogwyr i ofalu am les ac iechyd eu gweithwyr yn gais berffaith resymol a chanmoladwy, ac, wrth gwrs, mae cyflogwyr eisoes yn rhwymedig i sicrhau iechyd a diogelwch eu cyflogeion a'u gweithwyr. Er hynny, mae angen i Lywodraeth Cymru fod yn ofalus iawn nad yw gosod rhwymedigaethau ar gyflogwyr yn achosi gostyngiad yn anfwriadol i lefel cyflogaeth yn gyffredinol, oherwydd, yn amlwg, po fwyaf fo'r gost o gyflogi rhywun, lleiaf fydd y niferoedd a gaiff eu cyflogi. Felly, pa ddadansoddiad cost a budd fyddwch chi'n ei gynnal i sicrhau na fydd unrhyw rwymedigaethau newydd a roddwch ar gyflogwyr yn arwain at gynyddu costau cyflogaeth a thrwy hynny leihad yn lefelau cyflogaeth? Diolch.