English: I thank Carolyn Thomas for that, Llywydd. One of the distinguishing characteristics of the Welsh Government's pilot is that it doesn't just offer an income to young people. The income is really important because it is guaranteed and it is reliable. I was disappointed to see the reaction of the Welsh Conservatives to the pilot. Thinking of the questions the leader of the opposition asked me earlier, we know that, for so many young people leaving care, securing reliable, decent accommodation is one of the major challenges they face. At the launch event that I attended with my colleague Jane Hutt, I talked there with a young woman who explained to me that she'd left care, she had a flat of her own and the tenancy came to an end, she'd secured another flat, but there was a two-week gap between the flat that she had to leave and the flat that she was going to move into. She said to me that other young people who have families behind them wouldn't need to think about what to do in those circumstances; you know that you can go home for a couple of weeks and you can manage, and then when your new flat is available, you move in. For her, it was a disaster; she was homeless when the first flat ended, and by the time the next tenancy became available, her life had been so badly affected by those two weeks with nowhere to go that she wasn't able to take it up at all. Giving young people a basic income that they know they can rely on will enable them to make different sorts of decisions, investment decisions, in their own future. But because this is a vulnerable group of young people, then, in our scheme, they will also have access to regular advice from those people who they know already, who've been part of their lives already and will continue to be part of their lives during the pilot period. So, when they are making decisions, they will not be making them alone or in isolation, they will be making them alongside the advice and the guidance that they recognise themselves they will need to draw on in order to be able to make the most of the opportunities that are now available to them. There is an evaluation, a rigorous evaluation schedule that has been agreed for the pilot. It will include qualitative as well as quantitative research. We'll collect the figures, of course, but we will also be collecting the lived experience of those young people in those interviews that allow them to speak for themselves and to make sure that we are able to draw the maximum advantage in terms of learning from the experiment that we will be trying here in Wales.
Welsh: Diolch i Carolyn Thomas am hynna, Llywydd. Un o nodweddion nodedig cynllun treialu Llywodraeth Cymru yw nad yw dim ond yn cynnig incwm i bobl ifanc. Mae'r incwm yn bwysig iawn oherwydd ei fod wedi'i warantu ac mae'n ddibynadwy. Roeddwn yn siomedig o weld ymateb Ceidwadwyr Cymru i'r cynllun treialu. Wrth feddwl am y cwestiynau a ofynnodd arweinydd yr wrthblaid imi'n gynharach, gwyddom, i gynifer o bobl ifanc sy'n gadael gofal, mai sicrhau llety dibynadwy a gweddus yw un o'r prif heriau y maen nhw yn eu hwynebu. Yn y digwyddiad lansio y bûm ynddo gyda fy nghyd-Aelod Jane Hutt, siaradais yno â menyw ifanc a eglurodd wrthyf ei bod wedi gadael gofal, bod ganddi fflat ei hun a bod y denantiaeth wedi dod i ben, roedd wedi sicrhau fflat arall, ond roedd bwlch o bythefnos rhwng y fflat yr oedd yn rhaid iddi ei adael a'r fflat yr oedd yn mynd i symud i mewn iddo. Dywedodd wrthyf na fyddai angen i bobl ifanc eraill sydd â theuluoedd yn gefn iddyn nhw feddwl am beth i'w wneud o dan yr amgylchiadau hynny; rydych chi'n gwybod y gallwch fynd adref am gwpl o wythnosau a gallwch ddod i ben rywsut, ac yna pan fydd eich fflat newydd ar gael, byddwch yn symud i mewn. Iddi hi, roedd yn drychineb; roedd hi'n ddigartref pan ddaeth tenantiaeth y fflat cyntaf i ben, ac erbyn i'r denantiaeth nesaf ddod ar gael, effeithiwyd mor wael ar ei bywyd gan y pythefnos hwnnw heb unman i fynd fel nad oedd hi'n gallu ei gymryd o gwbl. Bydd rhoi incwm sylfaenol i bobl ifanc y maen nhw'n gwybod y gallan nhw ddibynnu arno yn eu galluogi nhw i wneud gwahanol fathau o benderfyniadau, penderfyniadau buddsoddi, yn eu dyfodol eu hunain. Ond gan fod hwn yn grŵp o bobl ifanc sy'n agored i niwed, yna, yn ein cynllun, byddan nhw hefyd yn gallu cael cyngor rheolaidd gan y bobl hynny y maen nhw'n eu hadnabod eisoes, sydd wedi bod yn rhan o'u bywydau eisoes ac a fydd yn parhau i fod yn rhan o'u bywydau yn ystod y cyfnod treialu. Felly, pan fyddan nhw'n gwneud penderfyniadau, ni fyddan nhw yn eu gwneud nhw ar eu pen eu hunain neu heb gymorth, byddan nhw'n yn eu gwneud ochr yn ochr â'r cyngor a'r arweiniad y maen nhw yn eu cydnabod eu hunain y bydd angen iddyn nhw fanteisio arnyn nhw er mwyn gallu manteisio i'r eithaf ar y cyfleoedd sydd ar gael iddyn nhw yn awr. Mae gwerthusiad, amserlen werthuso drylwyr y cytunwyd arni ar gyfer y cynllun treialu. Bydd yn cynnwys ymchwil ansoddol yn ogystal â meintiol. Byddwn yn casglu'r ffigurau, wrth gwrs, ond byddwn hefyd yn casglu profiad bywyd y bobl ifanc hynny yn y cyfweliadau hynny sy'n caniatáu iddyn nhw siarad drostynt eu hunain ac i sicrhau ein bod yn gallu manteisio i'r eithaf o ran dysgu o'r arbrawf y byddwn yn rhoi cynnig arno yma yng Nghymru.