English: This is a really important point, so I thank you for raising this. It was on 16 October that I met - courtesy of Colegau Cymru, who I thank for arranging this - a group of vocational learners from across south Wales who had benefitted from participating in Erasmus+ placements, and I heard at first hand about the benefits of that programme, which they described in their own lives and in their own workplaces. It was about building confidence, about personal development, about learning different perspectives on the world and the world of work, building relationships with people in other countries, and also taking back to their own workplaces new ideas and fresh ways of looking at things. All of them were clear that this was not the sort of thing that they would otherwise have been able to take advantage of in their own lives. She talks about the future scoping of the replacement Erasmus scheme, and it strikes exactly the kind of priorities that we would wish to see: supporting disadvantaged learners into Erasmus, part-time learners, and a more global scope in many other ways. Those are exactly the kinds of things that I'm sure we would all want to see our young people in Wales being able to participate in fully. I know that the Minister for Education has been advocating for this position with the UK Government from the outset, and I believe that, more recently, we've had some confidence, if we can't participate in the Erasmus replacement scheme into the future, which remains our priority, that the UK Government has a UK-wide scheme in mind. But the fundamental point, coming back to the point that I made earlier, is that the Treasury has to commit funding in order for that to happen, and, without that funding, it will not be able to be a reality.
Welsh: Mae hwn yn bwynt pwysig iawn, felly diolch i chi am ei godi. Ar 16 Hydref, cyfarfûm - drwy garedigrwydd Colegau Cymru, a diolch iddynt am drefnu hyn - â grŵp o ddysgwyr galwedigaethol o bob rhan o dde Cymru a oedd wedi elwa o gymryd rhan mewn lleoliadau Erasmus+, a chlywais o lygad y ffynnon am fanteision y rhaglen honno, a ddisgrifiwyd ganddynt yn eu bywydau eu hunain ac yn eu gweithleoedd eu hunain. Roedd yn ymwneud â magu hyder, datblygiad personol, dysgu am wahanol safbwyntiau ar y byd a byd gwaith, meithrin perthynas â phobl mewn gwledydd eraill, yn ogystal â mynd â syniadau newydd a ffyrdd newydd o edrych ar bethau yn ôl i'w gweithleoedd eu hunain. Roedd pob un ohonynt yn sicr nad oedd hyn yn rhywbeth y byddent wedi gallu manteisio arno fel arall yn eu bywydau eu hunain. Mae hi'n sôn am gwmpas y cynllun newydd yn lle cynllun Erasmus yn y dyfodol, ac mae'n mynd i'r afael â'r union fath o flaenoriaethau yr hoffem eu gweld: cynorthwyo dysgwyr difreintiedig i gymryd rhan yn rhaglen Erasmus, dysgwyr rhan-amser, a chwmpas mwy byd-eang mewn sawl ffordd arall. Dyna'r union fathau o bethau rwy'n siŵr y byddai pob un ohonom am weld ein pobl ifanc yng Nghymru yn gallu cymryd rhan lawn ynddynt. Gwn fod y Gweinidog Addysg wedi bod yn dadlau dros hyn gyda Llywodraeth y DU o'r cychwyn cyntaf, a chredaf ein bod, yn fwy diweddar, wedi cael rhywfaint o hyder, os na allwn gymryd rhan yn y cynllun newydd yn lle cynllun Erasmus yn y dyfodol, rhywbeth sy'n parhau i fod yn flaenoriaeth gennym, fod gan Lywodraeth y DU gynllun mewn golwg ar gyfer y DU gyfan. Ond y pwynt sylfaenol, gan ddychwelyd at y pwynt a wneuthum yn gynharach, yw bod yn rhaid i'r Trysorlys ymrwymo cyllid er mwyn i hynny ddigwydd, a heb yr arian hwnnw, ni fydd modd ei wireddu.