English: I wanted to start on the rights of children, really, to talk about this, because there are serious gaps in where we are in Wales. This is a concrete example: where a child in care can allege abuse, the child will not receive an advocate as they should do - they have the right to an advocate, as confirmed by the children's commissioner recently; they will not be taken to a place of safety - or they could, in some circumstances, not be taken to a place of safety; and it's possible they will not be spoken to by a child protection specialist. So, we are debating equalities and rights and so on here today, but this is happening right now. It has happened, and it really needs addressing. It's completely unacceptable that young people are deprived of their rights and their voices are just not being listened to. I'd like to talk as well about the progress that needs to be made in terms of maternity rights and also paternity rights for fathers. I think we're still well behind the curve on the domestic abuse of men, because one in three victims now are male, and there really is a huge lack of provision. I remember when I first mentioned it here in the Assembly, I was told to get my facts right - sorry, not to get my facts right, but to get my priorities right. That was the word - 'priorities'. And I thought, 'Wow, I'm here as somebody who's been through that, actually', years ago and there was nowhere to go - nowhere to turn. And I remember, from my experience, telling people that I'd taken up white-collar boxing, because I was so embarrassed about the state of my face. I see person after person in my office and there's very, very little support for them out there. In December, I gave a lecture in equalities at Bradford University - I did the Rosa Parks memorial lecture. I really thought there that we're light years behind in Wales in terms of equalities. We have a very multicultural capital, but it is not reflected in the environment of this Assembly in terms of professional staff. I think there's a big issue. It's either unconscious racism or it's perhaps clever, conscious racism in many areas of Welsh society, and every person of colour I speak to, we have the same conversation, because when we think we're being assertive, we're always called 'aggressive'; when we think we're being passionate, we're told that we're angry; when we try to do the best we can, we're told that we're awkward and not team players. And recently, I'm just fed up, really, with the number of articulate, bright, intelligent women of colour who I meet who are automatically labelled 'angry' because they assert their own personality and they want to be themselves, and they insist on being themselves and they speak up for themselves and because of this, they're 'angry' and 'aggressive'. I think there's a whole load of subconscious racism in society that we need to, first of all, admit exists. What was great about the lecture I gave: I asked the question at the beginning, 'Who is prejudiced here?', and everyone put their hands up. There are many environments where I could have asked the same question and no hands would have gone up at all. I want to finish, lastly, on class, because I think the biggest inequality we face is class inequality and in particular housing. The number of young people and working class people who are unable to buy their own properties now, and they pay a tremendous amount of money in rent to councils and rent to housing associations and that money is lost to their families. Whereas, with the more middle-class people who own properties or several properties, their children will have the inheritance from that - the inheritance from equity - and what this Assembly has done in passing laws to stop people being able to buy social housing has reinforced inequality - [ Interruption.] Yes.
Welsh: Roeddwn eisiau dechrau gyda hawliau plant, mewn gwirionedd, i siarad am hyn, oherwydd ceir diffygion difrifol o ran y sefyllfa yng Nghymru. Mae hon yn enghraifft bendant: pan fo plentyn mewn gofal yn honni ei fod yn cael ei gam-drin, ni fydd y plentyn yn cael eiriolwr fel y dylai - mae ganddo hawl i gael eiriolwr, fel y cadarnhawyd gan y comisiynydd plant yn ddiweddar; ni chaiff ei gludo i fan diogel - neu, efallai o dan rhai amgylchiadau ni chaiff ei gludo i fan diogel; ac mae'n bosib na fydd arbenigwr amddiffyn plant yn siarad ag ef. Felly, rydym yn trafod cydraddoldeb a hawliau ac ati yma heddiw, ond mae hyn yn digwydd ar hyn o bryd. Mae wedi digwydd, ac mae gwir angen mynd i'r afael ag ef. Mae'n gwbl annerbyniol bod pobl ifanc yn cael eu hamddifadu o'u hawliau ac nad oes neb yn gwrando ar eu llais. Hoffwn siarad hefyd am y cynnydd sydd angen ei wneud o ran hawliau mamolaeth a hefyd hawliau tadolaeth i dadau. Rwy'n credu ein bod ni'n dal ymhell ar ei hôl hi o ran dynion yn dioddef achosion o gam-drin domestig, oherwydd gwryw yw un o bob tri dioddefwr erbyn hyn, ac mae diffyg darpariaeth enbyd mewn gwirionedd. Rwy'n cofio pan soniais am hyn gyntaf yma yn y Cynulliad, y dywedwyd wrthyf imi gael fy ffeithiau'n gywir - mae'n ddrwg gennyf, nid i gael fy ffeithiau'n gywir, ond i gael fy mlaenoriaethau'n gywir. Dyna'r gair - 'blaenoriaethau'. A meddyliais, 'waw, rwyf i yma yn rhywun sydd wedi bod drwy hynny, mewn gwirionedd', flynyddoedd yn ôl ac nid oedd unman i fynd - nid oedd unman i droi. Ac rwy'n cofio, o'm profiad, yn dweud wrth bobl fy mod wedi dechrau cymryd rhan mewn bocsio coler wen, gan fy mod yn teimlo cywilydd oherwydd cyflwr fy wyneb. Rwy'n gweld unigolyn ar ôl unigolyn yn fy swyddfa a does dim llawer o gefnogaeth ar gael iddyn nhw. Ym mis Rhagfyr, traddodais ddarlith ar gydraddoldeb ym Mhrifysgol Bradford - traddodais ddarlith goffa Rosa Parks. Roeddwn i wir yn credu ein bod ni flynyddoedd maith ar ei hôl hi yng Nghymru o ran cydraddoldeb. Mae gennym ni brifddinas amlddiwylliannol iawn, ond nid yw'n cael ei hadlewyrchu yn amgylchedd y Cynulliad hwn o ran staff proffesiynol. Rwy'n credu bod problem fawr. Mae naill ai'n hiliaeth anymwybodol neu efallai'n hiliaeth glyfar, ymwybodol mewn llawer rhan o'r gymdeithas yng Nghymru, ac wrth siarad â phobl groenliw yr un yw'r sgwrs, oherwydd pan fyddwn ni'n credu ein bod yn siarad yn bendant, rydym ni bob amser yn cael ein galw'n 'ymosodol'; pan fyddwn ni'n credu ein bod ni'n angerddol, rydym yn cael ein galw'n ddig; pan fyddwn ni'n ceisio gwneud y gorau gallwn ni, rydym ni'n cael ein galw'n lletchwith ac nid yn rhan o'r tîm. Ac yn ddiweddar, rwyf wedi cael llond bol, mewn gwirionedd, oherwydd bod llawer o'r merched croenliw huawdl, disglair a deallus yr wyf yn eu cyfarfod sy'n cael eu galw'n 'ddig' yn awtomatig am eu bod yn arddel eu personoliaeth eu hunain ac eisiau bod yn nhw eu hunain, ac maen nhw'n mynnu bod yn nhw eu hunain ac maen nhw'n achub eu cam eu hunain ac oherwydd hyn, maen nhw'n 'ddig' ac yn 'ymosodol'. Rwy'n credu bod llawer iawn o hiliaeth isymwybodol mewn cymdeithas y mae angen i ni, yn gyntaf oll, gyfaddef ei fod yn bodoli. Yr hyn oedd yn wych am y ddarlith a roddais: gofynnais y cwestiwn ar y dechrau, 'pwy sy'n rhagfarnllyd?', a chododd pawb eu dwylo. Gallwn fod wedi gofyn yr un cwestiwn hwnnw mewn llawer lle ac ni fyddai unrhyw ddwylo wedi codi o gwbl. Rwyf eisiau gorffen, yn olaf, gyda dosbarth, oherwydd rwy'n credu mai'r anghydraddoldeb mwyaf sy'n ein hwynebu yw anghydraddoldeb dosbarth ac yn enwedig tai. Mae cymaint o bobl ifanc a phobl dosbarth gweithiol yn methu â phrynu eu heiddo eu hunain nawr, ac maen nhw'n talu swm aruthrol o arian mewn rhent i gynghorau ac i gymdeithasau tai ac mae eu teuluoedd yn colli'r arian hwnnw. Ond yn achos pobl dosbarth canol sy'n berchen ar eiddo neu sawl eiddo, yna bydd eu plant yn etifeddu'r rheini - etifeddiaeth o ecwiti - ac mae'r hyn a wnaeth y Cynulliad hwn wrth basio deddfau i atal pobl rhag gallu prynu tai cymdeithasol wedi atgyfnerthu anghydraddoldeb - [ Torri ar draws.] Ie.