English: 'Meaningful progress will require coherent efforts across all sectors to close the gap.' They suggest what a strategy - the kind that we're calling for today - could look like, what a cross-Government response could look like. It should define 'health equality' and what exactly success would look like. It should provide clear, measurable targets and outcomes with a defined timescale. It should bring together existing work on inequalities from across Government departments, because, as I say, there is work going on, of course. It should define the kind of collaboration needed across Wales with many, many partners involved to bring about the change that we need. And, of course, it must be underpinned by the necessary funding. And perhaps at that stage, I see any Minister wincing at the sheer scale of the challenge. But as we ponder how on earth we find the money to do it, consider the 2011 report from the Welsh Government itself, saying that the annual economic cost of dealing with the consequences of inequalities in health in Wales was estimated then to be between £3.2 billion and £4 billion. In the recent strategy, 'A Healthier Wales', inequality, I think, if we're counting correctly, is only mentioned three times. Plaid Cymru wants to make a difference and the updated programme for government resulting from the co-operation agreement includes, I think, 11 mentions of the words 'equal', 'inequality' or 'inequalities', including a key promise to move to eliminate inequality in all its forms. And the most basic form of inequality - or to turn it on its head, the equality that we seek - has to be health, surely. And that's why, again, we say that the Government's amendment today, removing the call for a clear plan of action, is contrary to their own stated ambition. I'm afraid, Minister, words aren't enough in themselves. Our own health as individuals is clearly the main ingredient in giving us the best possible quality of life, by a country mile. And translating that to a vision for the nation as a whole, while improving our levels of health overall across the board and making a particular effort to eradicate the inequalities, surely has to be at the heart of creating the better Wales that we all should strive for. I look forward to today's debate.
Welsh: 'Bydd cynnydd ystyrlon yn galw am ymdrechion cydlynol ar draws pob sector i gau'r bwlch.' Maent yn awgrymu sut beth fyddai strategaeth fel rydym yn galw amdani heddiw, sut beth fyddai ymateb trawslywodraethol. Dylai ddiffinio 'cydraddoldeb iechyd' a sut beth yn union fyddai llwyddiant. Dylai ddarparu targedau a chanlyniadau clir, mesuradwy gydag amserlen ddiffiniedig. Dylai ddod â gwaith presennol ar anghydraddoldebau ynghyd o holl adrannau'r Llywodraeth, oherwydd, fel y dywedaf, mae gwaith yn mynd rhagddo, wrth gwrs. Dylai ddiffinio'r math o gydweithio sydd ei angen ledled Cymru gyda llawer o bartneriaid ynghlwm wrtho i sicrhau'r newid sydd ei angen arnom. Ac wrth gwrs, rhaid cael y cyllid angenrheidiol yn sail iddo. Ac efallai ar y cam hwnnw, y gwelaf unrhyw Weinidog yn gwingo wrth ystyried maint yr her. Ond wrth inni ystyried sut ar y ddaear y down o hyd i'r arian i'w wneud, ystyriwch adroddiad 2011 gan Lywodraeth Cymru ei hun, a ddywedai fod amcangyfrif o'r gost economaidd flynyddol o ymdrin â chanlyniadau anghydraddoldebau iechyd yng Nghymru rhwng £3.2 biliwn a £4 biliwn. Yn y strategaeth ddiweddar, 'Cymru Iachach', os ydym yn cyfrif yn gywir, deirgwaith yn unig y sonnir am anghydraddoldeb. Mae Plaid Cymru am wneud gwahaniaeth ac mae'r rhaglen lywodraethu wedi'i diweddaru sy'n deillio o'r cytundeb cydweithio yn cynnwys y geiriau 'cydradd', 'anghydraddoldeb', neu 'anghydraddoldebau' 11 gwaith, rwy'n credu, gan gynnwys addewid allweddol i fynd ati i ddileu pob ffurf ar anghydraddoldeb. A rhaid mai'r math mwyaf sylfaenol o anghydraddoldeb - neu o'i droi ar ei ben, y cydraddoldeb a geisiwn - yw iechyd. A dyna pam, unwaith eto, y dywedwn fod gwelliant y Llywodraeth heddiw, drwy ddileu'r alwad am gynllun gweithredu clir, yn groes i'w huchelgais datganedig eu hunain. Mae arnaf ofn, Weinidog, nad yw geiriau'n ddigon ynddynt eu hunain. Mae'n amlwg mai ein hiechyd ein hunain fel unigolion yw'r prif gynhwysyn sy'n rhoi'r ansawdd bywyd gorau posibl i ni, a hynny o gryn bellter. A rhaid i drosi hynny'n weledigaeth ar gyfer y wlad gyfan, a gwella ein lefelau iechyd ym mhob ffordd a gwneud ymdrech arbennig i ddileu'r anghydraddoldebau, fod yn ganolog yn y gwaith o greu'r Gymru well y dylem i gyd ymgyrraedd ati. Edrychaf ymlaen at y ddadl heddiw.