English: A few speakers have already said that we've made a lot of progress but we've got a long to go, but I think very significant progress - and I'd like to mention it, because I was there - was the passing of the minimum wage legislation, which was introduced by the Labour Government that went in in 1997 - part of its great reforms. I think that was the beginning that has led now to this campaign. And I congratulate Jane Hutt and Mick Antoniw and others for bringing this forward today, because I think this is a real bread-and-butter issue, as our new First Minister has said. It's about the money that workers have in their pockets after the bills are paid. It addresses in-work poverty, as others here have said today. At one time, we thought if you had a job, that was it; you were out of poverty. Now we know that in-work poverty is one of the hardest issues to address, so bringing in a real living wage is absolutely vitally important to all our citizens. There are now 175 employers in Wales accredited by the Living Wage Foundation who've signed up to pay the real living wage. Of course, it does particularly affect young people if they're under 25, because the gap between the lower rate national minimum wage and the real living wage is greatest for those in the 18 to 25 age group. That does amount to quite a significant - nearly £3,200 a year, which is an awful lot of money. I'm very pleased, as Jane Hutt mentioned, that Cardiff council was an early supporter of the real living wage, signing up in 2012, and we know that there are a lot of third sector organisations who pay the real living wage, such as Women's Aid, Chwarae Teg and Mind. I'm also pleased that there are 96 private sector employers in Wales paying the real living wage, and in Cardiff, Jane Hutt mentioned the Bigmoose Coffee Company, where the living wage week was launched; PR firm Freshwater, the law firm Darwin Gray, the Cardiff Window Cleaning Company and IKEA, who all pay their staff a fair day's pay for a hard day's work. So, I think we want to congratulate those private sector employers and encourage them, because, obviously, part of this campaign is to encourage private sector employers to do this. I think a lot of speakers today have highlighted very clearly why employers should bring in the real living wage rather than the UK Government's national living wage. There are moral reasons. We want people to have enough money to live on. But, obviously, there are sound business reasons as well, and several speakers have already mentioned the Cardiff Business School's employer experience survey of 840 employers, carried out in autumn 2016, and I think speakers have highlighted the real benefits of introducing the real living wage, and I won't repeat those. But I think paying the real living wage is so important to those who are in low-paid work, because it can be the difference between making ends meet and going under. I think we all know the terrible stress that so many families are under at the moment. Particularly, we see people in our surgeries, and the austerity has hit so many families so hard. As a country, we have too many workers who are on low wages, and I know that in Wales we have a particular issue, because a report by the Resolution Foundation showed that people in Wales have the second-lowest increase in wages in the UK after the north-east of England. Compared with a leap in London of wages of 18 per cent, wages here have gone up just 4.5 per cent. So, I'd like to welcome the First Minister, Mark Drakeford's, manifesto commitment to promoting equality through the fair work agenda and the real living wage, as well, of course, as closing the gender pay gap. Like him, I believe that the most effective way out of poverty and the best route to fulfilled lives, which of course also means your health and your well-being - it means everything that you do - comes through the creation of worthwhile, properly rewarded employment. And the Welsh Government does have a great opportunity to spread the living wage through our supply chains, which would help create prosperity throughout the country.
Welsh: Mae rhai o'r siaradwyr eisoes wedi dweud ein bod wedi gwneud llawer o gynnydd, ond mae gennym ffordd bell i fynd, ond credaf ein bod wedi gwneud cynnydd sylweddol iawn - a hoffwn sôn amdano, oherwydd roeddwn i yno - gyda phasio'r ddeddfwriaeth isafswm cyflog, a gyflwynwyd gan y Llywodraeth Lafur a ddaeth i rym yn 1997 - rhan o'i diwygiadau mawr. Rwy'n meddwl mai dyna oedd y dechrau sydd wedi arwain bellach at yr ymgyrch hon. Ac rwy'n llongyfarch Jane Hutt a Mick Antoniw ac eraill am gyflwyno hyn heddiw, oherwydd credaf ei fod yn fater bara menyn go iawn, fel y dywedodd ein Prif Weinidog newydd. Mae'n ymwneud â'r arian sydd gan weithwyr yn eu pocedi ar ôl talu'r biliau. Mae'n ymdrin â thlodi mewn gwaith, fel y mae eraill wedi'i ddweud yma heddiw. Ar un adeg, os oedd gennych swydd, roeddem yn meddwl mai dyna ni; ni fyddech yn byw mewn tlodi. Gwyddom bellach fod tlodi mewn gwaith yn un o'r problemau anoddaf i fynd i'r afael â hi, felly mae cyflwyno cyflog byw go iawn yn hanfodol bwysig i'n holl ddinasyddion. Bellach mae 175 o gyflogwyr yng Nghymru a achredwyd gan y Living Wage Foundation wedi ymrwymo i dalu'r cyflog byw go iawn. Wrth gwrs, mae'n effeithio'n arbennig ar bobl ifanc os ydynt o dan 25 oed, gan fod y bwlch rhwng cyfradd is yr isafswm cyflog cenedlaethol a'r cyflog byw go iawn yn fwy ar gyfer y rhai yn y grŵp oedran 18 i 25 oed. Mae hwnnw'n eithaf sylweddol - bron i £3,200 y flwyddyn, sy'n llawer iawn o arian. Rwy'n falch iawn, fel y soniodd Jane Hutt, fod cyngor Caerdydd yn gefnogwr cynnar i'r cyflog byw go iawn, gan ymrwymo iddo yn 2012, ac rydym yn gwybod bod llawer o sefydliadau'r trydydd sector yn talu'r cyflog byw go iawn, megis Cymorth i Fenywod, Chwarae Teg a Mind. Rwyf hefyd yn falch fod 96 o gyflogwyr sector preifat yng Nghymru yn talu'r cyflog byw go iawn, ac yng Nghaerdydd, soniodd Jane Hutt am y Bigmoose Coffee Company, lle lansiwyd yr wythnos cyflog byw; cwmni cysylltiadau cyhoeddus Freshwater, cwmni cyfreithwyr Darwin Gray, y Cardiff Window Cleaning Company ac IKEA, sydd i gyd yn talu cyflog teg i'w staff am ddiwrnod caled o waith. Felly, credaf fod arnom eisiau llongyfarch y cyflogwyr sector preifat hynny a'u hannog, oherwydd, yn amlwg, rhan o'r ymgyrch hon yw annog cyflogwyr sector preifat i wneud hyn. Credaf fod llawer o siaradwyr heddiw wedi amlygu'n glir iawn pam y dylai cyflogwyr gyflwyno'r cyflog byw go iawn yn hytrach na chyflog byw cenedlaethol Llywodraeth y DU. Mae yna resymau moesol. Rydym am i bobl gael digon o arian i allu byw. Ond yn amlwg, ceir rhesymau busnes cadarn yn ogystal, ac mae sawl siaradwr eisoes wedi sôn am arolwg Ysgol Fusnes Caerdydd o brofiad 840 o gyflogwyr a gynhaliwyd yn ystod hydref 2016, a chredaf fod siaradwyr wedi tynnu sylw at fanteision gwirioneddol cyflwyno'r cyflog byw go iawn, ac nid wyf am ailadrodd y rheini. Ond credaf fod talu'r cyflog byw go iawn mor bwysig i'r rhai sydd mewn gwaith cyflog isel, oherwydd gall wneud y gwahaniaeth rhwng cael dau ben llinyn ynghyd a methu gwneud hynny. Credaf ein bod oll yn gwybod am y straen ofnadwy sy'n wynebu cynifer o deuluoedd ar hyn o bryd. Yn arbennig, gwelwn bobl yn ein cymorthfeydd, ac mae polisi cyni wedi taro cymaint o deuluoedd mor galed. Fel gwlad, mae gennym ormod o weithwyr ar gyflogau isel, a gwn fod gennym broblem benodol yng Nghymru oherwydd dangosodd adroddiad gan Sefydliad Resolution mai pobl yng Nghymru a gafodd y cynnydd lleiaf ond un yn eu cyflogau yn y DU ar ôl gogledd-ddwyrain Lloegr. O'i gymharu â naid o 18 y cant yng nghyflogau Llundain, 4.5 y cant yn unig o gynnydd a fu yn y cyflogau yma. Felly, hoffwn groesawu ymrwymiad maniffesto'r Prif Weinidog, Mark Drakeford, i hyrwyddo cydraddoldeb drwy'r agenda gwaith teg a'r cyflog byw go iawn, yn ogystal, wrth gwrs, â chau'r bwlch cyflog rhwng y rhywiau. Fel yntau, credaf mai'r ffordd fwyaf effeithiol allan o dlodi a'r llwybr gorau tuag at fywydau bodlon, sydd hefyd wrth gwrs yn golygu eich iechyd a'ch llesiant - mae'n golygu popeth a wnewch - yw drwy greu cyflogaeth werth chweil a wobrwyir yn briodol. Ac mae cyfle gwych gan Lywodraeth Cymru i ledaenu'r cyflog byw drwy ein cadwyni cyflenwi, a byddai hynny'n helpu i greu ffyniant ledled y wlad.