English: Let's just look at some of the broad and important facts that have affected the economy in the past 20 years, and how we have been able to steer the economy of Wales in a very different direction to that which was taken back in the 1980s and early 1990s. In the last 20 years, we've seen the number of people in Wales without qualifications reduce from more than one in three to fewer than one in five. As a consequence, we now have a lower employment inactivity rate than the UK average. Could we have imagined that in the 1990s when our rates were almost double the UK average? Today, we have 300,000 more people in work than we did in 1999, largely because of the interventions of the Welsh Labour Governments over those years. And perhaps one of the most successful programmes that we have been operating during devolution is a programme that was based on one that was introduced by the Gordon Brown Government at Westminster, but then subsequently canned by the Cameron Conservative Government, and that was Jobs Growth Wales. Jobs Growth Wales helped thousands upon thousands of young people avoid long-term unemployment. During the period of 2010-15, you can compare parts of Wales with parts of England. There are parts of England during that period that saw long-term youth unemployment rise by 2,000 per cent. The figure here in Wales was less than 100 per cent, still way too high, but across swathes of England and Scotland, we saw long-term youth unemployment rise by hundreds if not thousands of per cent. We saved the hopes, the aspirations and the careers of thousands of young people after 2008, and right up to today we are still operating a very successful scheme that is giving hope and opportunity to many young people.
Welsh: Gadewch i ni edrych ar rai o'r ffeithiau cyffredinol a phwysig sydd wedi effeithio ar yr economi yn ystod yr 20 mlynedd diwethaf, a sut rydym wedi gallu llywio economi Cymru i gyfeiriad gwahanol iawn i'r cyfeiriad yr aed iddo yn ôl yn y 1980au a'r 1990au cynnar. Yn yr 20 mlynedd diwethaf, rydym wedi gweld nifer y bobl yng Nghymru heb gymwysterau yn gostwng o fwy nag un o bob tri i lai nag un o bob pump. O ganlyniad, mae gennym bellach gyfradd is na chyfartaledd y DU o ran anweithgarwch cyflogaeth. A allem fod wedi dychmygu hynny yn y 1990au, pan roedd ein cyfraddau bron ddwywaith cymaint â chyfartaledd y DU? Heddiw, mae gennym 300,000 yn fwy o bobl mewn gwaith nag a oedd gennym yn 1999, yn bennaf oherwydd ymyriadau Llywodraeth Lafur Cymru dros y blynyddoedd hynny. Ac efallai mai un o'r rhaglenni mwyaf llwyddiannus a roddwyd ar waith gennym yn ystod datganoli yw rhaglen a seiliwyd ar un a gyflwynwyd gan Lywodraeth Gordon Brown yn San Steffan, ond a gafodd ei diddymu wedyn gan Lywodraeth Geidwadol Cameron, sef Twf Swyddi Cymru. Cynorthwyodd Twf Swyddi Cymru filoedd ar filoedd o bobl ifanc i osgoi diweithdra hirdymor. Yn ystod y cyfnod rhwng 2010-15, gallwch gymharu rhannau o Gymru â rhannau o Loegr. Cododd diweithdra hirdymor ymhlith pobl ifanc 2,000 y cant mewn rhai rhannau o Loegr yn ystod y cyfnod hwnnw. Roedd y ffigur yma yng Nghymru yn llai na 100 y cant, sy'n dal i fod yn rhy uchel o lawer, ond mewn sawl rhan o Loegr a'r Alban, gwelsom ddiweithdra hirdymor ymhlith pobl ifanc yn codi gannoedd os nad miloedd y cant. Fe wnaethom ni achub gobeithion, dyheadau a gyrfaoedd miloedd o bobl ifanc ar ôl 2008, a hyd heddiw, rydym yn dal i weithredu cynllun llwyddiannus iawn sy'n rhoi gobaith a chyfleoedd i lawer o bobl ifanc.