English: I thank the Member for that. I agree with a number of the points that he made; as well as the technical skills and academic qualifications that people need, it is often the human skills, the soft skills that get people into the workplace and allow them to make a success of that first experience. I also agree that the more that can be done to make sure that young people, in our secondary schools particularly, have access to work experience, to employers coming in to schools and colleges, the more opportunities there will be for young people, on the one hand, to learn about opportunities that are there for them, but, actually, also for employers to attract young people into those jobs. Because, Llywydd, I think in the time that I will have been associated with devolution, we've seen a really profound change in this way, that, for a long time, what we thought the task was was to find jobs for young people to do, and, in future, I think the challenge is going to be to find young people to do the jobs, because we have fewer young people in Wales. We have more people of retirement age. You see the skill shortages that there are already in the Welsh economy, and employers are going to have to work harder to attract young people to come into the jobs that they need to be done. So, I think it's a two-way street in that way: it definitely benefits young people, but sensible firms of the sort that Joel James mentioned, who make those efforts, they know it's to their advantage as well, because they will be better able to attract those young people into their jobs of the future. The Welsh Government has issued fresh guidance this month to schools on careers and work-related activity in schools, and, actually, Llywydd, a great deal does go on. In Career Discovery Week in July of last year, 146 secondary schools were involved; 177 secondary schools, or 85 per cent of the total, report, in Wales, that they have engagement with employers during the year, with eight out of 10 saying that they have multiple contacts with them. So, I agree with what the Member said about the need to build from that platform, because the more that we do to bring those two worlds together, the more there will be advantages for young people and the more there will be advantages for good employers as well.
Welsh: Diolch i'r Aelod am hynna. Rwy'n cytuno â nifer o'r pwyntiau a wnaeth; yn ogystal â'r sgiliau technegol a'r cymwysterau academaidd sydd eu hangen ar bobl, yn aml y sgiliau dynol, y sgiliau meddal sy'n cael pobl i mewn i'r gweithle ac yn caniatáu iddyn nhw lwyddo yn y profiad cyntaf hwnnw. Rwyf i hefyd yn cytuno mai po fwyaf y gellir ei wneud i sicrhau bod pobl ifanc, yn ein hysgolion uwchradd yn arbennig, yn gallu cael profiad gwaith, i gyflogwyr ddod i mewn i ysgolion a cholegau, y mwyaf o gyfleoedd fydd i bobl ifanc, ar y naill law, i ddysgu am gyfleoedd sydd yno ar eu cyfer, ond, mewn gwirionedd, hefyd i gyflogwyr ddenu pobl ifanc i'r swyddi hynny. Oherwydd, Llywydd, rwy'n credu yn yr amser yr wyf i wedi bod yn gysylltiedig â datganoli, ein bod ni wedi gweld newid dwys iawn fel hyn, sef, ers amser maith, yr hyn yr oeddem ni'n credu oedd y dasg oedd dod o hyd i swyddi i bobl ifanc eu gwneud, ac, yn y dyfodol, rwy'n credu mai'r her fydd dod o hyd i bobl ifanc i wneud y swyddi, gan fod gennym ni lai o bobl ifanc yng Nghymru. Mae gennym ni fwy o bobl o oedran ymddeol. Rydych chi'n gweld y prinder sgiliau sydd eisoes yn economi Cymru, a bydd yn rhaid i gyflogwyr weithio yn galetach i ddenu pobl ifanc i ddod i'r swyddi y mae angen iddyn nhw gael eu gwneud. Felly, rwy'n credu ei bod hi'n stryd ddwyffordd yn y ffordd honno: mae'n sicr o fudd i bobl ifanc, ond mae cwmnïau synhwyrol o'r math y soniodd Joel James amdanyn nhw, sy'n gwneud yr ymdrechion hynny, maen nhw'n gwybod ei fod o fantais iddyn nhw hefyd, gan y byddan nhw'n gallu denu'r bobl ifanc hynny yn well i'w swyddi yn y dyfodol. Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi cyhoeddi canllawiau newydd y mis hwn i ysgolion ar yrfaoedd a gweithgarwch sy'n gysylltiedig â gwaith mewn ysgolion, ac, mewn gwirionedd, Llywydd, mae llawer iawn yn digwydd. Yn Wythnos Darganfod Gyrfa ym mis Gorffennaf y llynedd, cymerodd 146 o ysgolion uwchradd ran; mae 177 o ysgolion uwchradd, neu 85 y cant o'r cyfanswm, yn adrodd, yng Nghymru, eu bod nhw'n ymgysylltu â chyflogwyr yn ystod y flwyddyn, a dywedodd wyth o bob 10 eu bod nhw'n cysylltu â nhw sawl gwaith. Felly, rwy'n cytuno â'r hyn a ddywedodd yr Aelod am yr angen i adeiladu o'r platfform hwnnw, oherwydd po fwyaf y gwnawn ni ddod â'r ddau fyd hynny at ei gilydd, y mwyaf bydd manteision i bobl ifanc ac i gyflogwyr da hefyd.