English: Of course, our Chair in his own inimitable style has breezed through the entire report, touched on every recommendation, but nonetheless, Minister, I do think that it is really important that I rehearse again some of the points that he's made because we do have the highest rates of obesity, and unhealthy children usually grow up to be pretty unhealthy adults. It's a deeply concerning statistic and it means that as adults more people will have difficulty in getting appropriate employment. It's very hard to do some of the jobs that we have to do if you've got bad backs, if you're way too heavy to do that job that you need to do. More of us, especially those from severely disadvantaged backgrounds, are more likely to die up to 10 years earlier; that's 10 years of a glorious life that you could have had that you haven't got because of things like diabetes, heart and stroke and some cancers, just to name a few. And, of course, this whole report wasn't just about being heavy. Our general levels of fitness are vital if we are to enjoy not only a physically long and happy life, but a mentally long and happy life. I would remind Members that we should not underestimate the benefits of physical activity for our mental health. We're all only too aware that today's children and young adolescents are putting up with societal pressures that we did not have to put up with. There are horrendous things going on via the internet, bullying in schools, there's just a whole raft of things, let alone the pressure of performing, of examinations and of trying to move forward as people. If you're fit and you have that release, and you have those serotonin levels flowing through your body, you are so much more able to deal with some of the vicissitudes that come towards your way. Being healthy and active is something we can aspire to, but like all aspirations it's grounded in habit, in knowledge, in confidence and experience. So, we should start at the beginning, and that's why I was so pleased to be part of the committee report into physical activity among children and young people, because I believe we must act now to ensure that future generations take being active, being normal - walking, cycling, dancing, playing sport - . My goodness me, it doesn't have to be doing whatever minutes it is of football and rugby, and I'm not going to say which because I'm going to get it wrong, I know I will. We must ensure also that these children know when they grow up that smoking and drugs and eating too much and drinking too much is not actually the way to have that fit and healthy lifestyle. We need to start with education, and that's why I'm so pleased to see the Minister for Education present, because a lot of this does come back down into the people who can most influence our children at that young age, and that is parents and that is teachers, and they are the keys and we need to use those keys. And this is why we made such a clear recommendation about the hours of physical activity being mandatory in schools, and we came to the 120 minutes as a basic requirement, having listened to a lot of expert witnesses. The Ministers present will know that I have raised this issue of the fact that we are dropping our numbers and dropping our numbers and dropping our numbers, and I have real concern about it. So, dear reader, if you read our report, it does look like great news that the Government's accepted recommendations 5 and 7, but I'm not convinced, because in 5 we want that further action. Dai's talked a lot about the development of fundamental skills, motor skills, in young children. Yes, you know, the Government does wax lyrical about the foundation phase, and I am a great supporter of the foundation phase, but the Wales Institute for Physical Literacy is very clear: they've gone back to the research, they've gone back to the evidence and it is not evidenced. Their research shows that pupils are not developing those skills, and we need them to because they are the vital building blocks for healthy people. And I think that this response is blasé and it is assumptive. With regard to recommendation 7, I have met many schoolchildren who've never been asked what they would like to do for physical sports. It's just taken that if you're a boy, you do rugby or football, and if you're a girl, like my daughter was told, 'You can just run around the football pitch while the boys are having fun in the middle playing a game.' That's great; that really turned her on to sport for the rest of her life. So, if you're going to truly engage with girls and young women and kids who live very disadvantaged lives, with carers, with children in rural environments who cannot get back in to play sport at the end of the day, you've got to really ask them and really listen to them. And I think that there are some good schools, and we visited a few, who do it; most schools don't, and that has to change. Finally, I want to address the wholesale rejection of recommendation 8. There is only one area of learning and experience in the new curriculum, and our entire education system is going through a huge shake. It's got to bed down over a new curriculum; there are significant changes to methodology and practice; and while the teachers are working flat out to absorb this, while the Government's monitoring and reviewing, our children are not becoming physically active enough to benefit their lives and to benefit our fiscal life going ahead, because we know about the pressure. Our obesity, our health and our mental well-being crises will not improve until we tackle this issue, and I think that this report was a good step forward.
Welsh: Wrth gwrs, mae ein Cadeirydd yn ei ddull dihafal ei hun wedi hwylio drwy'r adroddiad cyfan, wedi cyffwrdd â phob argymhelliad, ond serch hynny, Weinidog, credaf ei bod yn wirioneddol bwysig fy mod yn ailadrodd rhai o'r pwyntiau a wnaeth oherwydd mae gennym y cyfraddau uchaf o ordewdra, ac mae plant afiach fel arfer yn tyfu'n oedolion eithaf afiach. Mae hwn yn ystadegyn sy'n peri pryder mawr, ac mae'n golygu y bydd mwy o bobl yn cael anhawster i gael cyflogaeth briodol fel oedolion. Mae'n anodd iawn gwneud rhai o'r swyddi sy'n rhaid inni eu gwneud os oes gennych gefnau drwg, os ydych chi'n llawer rhy drwm i wneud y gwaith sydd angen i chi ei wneud. Mae mwy ohonom, yn enwedig rhai o gefndiroedd difreintiedig iawn, yn fwy tebygol o farw hyd at 10 mlynedd yn gynharach; dyna 10 mlynedd o fywyd gogoneddus y gallech fod wedi'i gael nad ydych yn ei gael oherwydd pethau fel diabetes, problemau'r galon a strôc a rhai mathau o ganser, i enwi dim ond rhai. Ac wrth gwrs, nid ymwneud â bod yn drwm yn unig oedd yr adroddiad. Mae ein lefelau ffitrwydd cyffredinol yn hanfodol os ydym yn mynd i fwynhau bywyd corfforol hir a hapus, yn ogystal â bywyd meddyliol hir a hapus. Hoffwn atgoffa'r Aelodau na ddylem danbrisio manteision gweithgarwch corfforol i'n hiechyd meddwl. Rydym oll yn rhy ymwybodol fod plant a phobl ifanc heddiw'n dioddef pwysau cymdeithasol nad oedd yn rhaid inni ei ddioddef. Mae pethau erchyll yn digwydd drwy'r rhyngrwyd, bwlio mewn ysgolion, llu o bethau, heb sôn am bwysau cyflawni, arholiadau a cheisio symud ymlaen fel pobl. Os ydych yn holliach a bod gennych y rhyddhad hwnnw, a bod y lefelau serotonin hynny'n llifo drwy eich corff, rydych yn llawer mwy abl i ymdrin â rhai o'r pethau sy'n dod tuag atoch. Mae bod yn iach ac yn egnïol yn rhywbeth y gallwn anelu tuag ato, ond fel pob dyhead mae'n wreiddiedig mewn arfer, mewn gwybodaeth, mewn hyder a phrofiad. Felly, dylem ddechrau yn y dechrau, a dyna pam roeddwn mor falch o fod yn rhan o adroddiad y pwyllgor ar weithgarwch corfforol ymhlith plant a phobl ifanc, oherwydd credaf fod yn rhaid inni weithredu yn awr i sicrhau bod cenedlaethau'r dyfodol yn ystyried bod yn egnïol, bod yn normal - cerdded, beicio, dawnsio, gwneud chwaraeon - . Bobol bach, nid oes raid iddo olygu gwneud faint bynnag o funudau ydyw o bêl-droed a rygbi, ac nid wyf am ddweud pa un oherwydd fe fyddaf yn anghywir, rwy'n gwybod y byddaf. Rhaid inni sicrhau hefyd fod y plant hyn yn gwybod pan fyddant yn tyfu i fyny nad ysmygu a chyffuriau a bwyta gormod ac yfed gormod yw'r modd o gael y ffordd o fyw heini ac iach honno. Mae angen inni ddechrau gydag addysg, a dyna pam rwyf mor falch o weld y Gweinidog Addysg yn bresennol, gan fod llawer o hyn yn dibynnu ar y bobl a all ddylanwadu fwyaf ar ein plant yn yr oedran ifanc hwnnw, sef rhieni ac athrawon, a hwy yw'r allweddi ac mae angen i ni ddefnyddio'r allweddi hynny. A dyna pam y gwnaethom argymhelliad mor glir ynglŷn â'r oriau o weithgarwch corfforol sy'n orfodol mewn ysgolion, a chytunwyd ar 120 munud fel gofyniad sylfaenol ar ôl gwrando ar lawer o dystion arbenigol. Bydd y Gweinidogion sy'n bresennol yn gwybod fy mod wedi codi'r ffaith bod y niferoedd yn gostwng ac yn gostwng ac yn gostwng ac rwy'n wirioneddol bryderus ynglŷn â hynny. Felly, annwyl ddarllenydd, os darllenwch ein hadroddiad, mae'n edrych fel newyddion gwych fod y Llywodraeth wedi derbyn argymhellion 5 a 7, ond nid wyf wedi fy argyhoeddi, oherwydd yn argymhelliad 5 mae arnom eisiau'r gweithredu pellach hwnnw. Siaradodd Dai lawer am ddatblygu sgiliau sylfaenol, sgiliau echddygol, mewn plant ifanc. Wyddoch chi, mae'r Llywodraeth yn traethu'n huawdl am y cyfnod sylfaen, ac rwy'n cefnogi'r cyfnod sylfaen yn frwd, ond mae Athrofa Llythrennedd Corfforol Cymru yn glir iawn: maent wedi dychwelyd at y gwaith ymchwil, maent wedi dychwelyd at y dystiolaeth ac nid oes tystiolaeth ar gael ar ei gyfer. Mae eu hymchwil yn dangos nad yw disgyblion yn datblygu'r sgiliau hynny, ac mae angen iddynt wneud hynny oherwydd dyna yw'r blociau adeiladu hanfodol i bobl iach. Ac rwy'n credu bod yr ymateb hwn yn ddi-hid ac yn rhagdybiaethol. Mewn perthynas ag argymhelliad 7, rwyf wedi cyfarfod â llawer o blant ysgol nad oes neb erioed wedi gofyn iddynt beth yr hoffent ei wneud fel chwaraeon corfforol. Os ydych yn fachgen cymerir eich bod yn gwneud rygbi neu bêl-droed, ac os ydych yn ferch, fel y dywedwyd wrth fy merch i, 'Gallwch redeg o gwmpas y cae pêl-droed tra bod y bechgyn yn cael hwyl yn y canol yn chwarae gêm.' Dyna wych; fe wnaeth hynny'n siŵr ei bod hi'n dwli ar chwaraeon am weddill ei hoes. Felly, os ydych chi'n mynd i ymgysylltu'n wirioneddol â merched a menywod ifanc a phlant sy'n byw bywydau difreintiedig iawn, â gofalwyr, â phlant mewn amgylcheddau gwledig na allant ddychwelyd i wneud chwaraeon ar ddiwedd y dydd, mae'n rhaid i chi ofyn iddynt a gwrando arnynt go iawn. A chredaf fod yna rai ysgolion da sy'n ei wneud, ac fe wnaethom ymweld ag ambell un; nid yw'r rhan fwyaf o ysgolion yn ei wneud, ac mae'n rhaid i hynny newid. Yn olaf, hoffwn roi sylw i'r modd y gwrthodwyd argymhelliad 8 yn ei grynswth. Dim ond un maes dysgu a phrofiad sydd i'w gael yn y cwricwlwm newydd, ac mae ein system addysg gyfan yn mynd drwy newid enfawr. Rhaid iddo wreiddio dros gwricwlwm newydd; mae yna newidiadau sylweddol i fethodoleg ac arferion; a thra bod yr athrawon yn gweithio'n ddi-baid i amsugno hyn, tra bod y Llywodraeth yn monitro ac yn adolygu, nid yw ein plant yn dod yn ddigon egnïol yn gorfforol i fod o fudd i'w bywydau ac i fod o fudd i'n bywyd cyllidol yn y dyfodol, oherwydd gwyddom am y pwysau. Ni fydd ein gordewdra, ein hiechyd a'n hargyfyngau lles meddyliol yn gwella nes inni fynd i'r afael â hyn, a chredaf fod yr adroddiad hwn yn gam da ymlaen.