English: I'm very pleased to take part in this debate, especially during this awareness week, and I thank the Cabinet Secretary for updating us on the progress that has been made and his acknowledgement that there is still a long way to go. Although progress has been made, hate crime is still a daily reality for many people in Wales, ruining people's lives and people living in dread of being the victims of hate crimes. It is an appalling reflection of the society we live in, and it does cover so many areas. Today, I wanted to particularly concentrate on the treatment of members of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community, who are very frequently the target of hate crimes and discrimination here in Wales. This targeting of this community is nothing new; it has gone on for many, many years. During Hate Crime Awareness Week, I know that a group of young people from the community in south-east Wales will be meeting with the Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent to talk about tackling bullying and hate crime directed at the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community. I think that is very welcome, so that the issues can be considered by the commissioner, because, sadly, the community suffers from discrimination and there is a need to tackle negative attitudes towards this community. Young people from the Gypsy and Traveller community who were involved in the Travelling Ahead project feel very strongly that there is still a need to train teachers, police officers and other professionals, because there is still discrimination and hate crimes being targeted at them, and they have collated and created a number of resources to combat this. For example, they've made some short films, written poems and presentations, which will be made available when training teachers, police, councillors and other young people. And that leads me on to another point, which is that when hate crimes are reported, it still seems that there is a problem with how those crimes are dealt with and how they are recorded. The all-Wales hate crime research project collated the number of hate crimes that had been recorded in England and Wales in 2011-12, and the vast majority of those, 82 per cent, were race hate crimes, but only 45 per cent of those who were victims of hate crime felt that the police took the matter as seriously as they should have done, and this chimes with the experiences of Gypsies and Travellers involved in the Travelling Ahead project. They feel that the police still don't listen to them. I know that there is training going on with the police, but the perception of the young people is that they are not being listened to. I think there's also an issue about the way that police forces collect statistics about hate crime and that the ethnic status data are quite difficult to break down. So, it is actually quite difficult to get an analysis of the number of hate crimes that are specifically directed against Gypsies and Travellers, because they are subsumed in the overall ethnic crime figures. I think that would be a great improvement if we could actually break down the figures, because, in particular with Gypsies and Travellers, we need to know what those figures are and how great this suffering is. I'd like to just finally, really, end with the thoughts of one of the young people from the Travelling Ahead group, Tyrone Price. He put forward a question that I think is very thought provoking, and I think it's a very valid question: have we actually improved tackling racism, or are people just pretending to accept this concept of equality? I think this is obviously what a young person feels very strongly, that a lot of the progress we have made towards equality, some of it is perhaps token, and we have to really make race equality an absolute reality, particularly for the young people who are suffering from prejudice and hate crime. As I say, my remarks are really about the Gypsy and Traveller community today.
Welsh: Rwy'n falch iawn o gymryd rhan yn y ddadl hon, yn enwedig yn ystod yr wythnos ymwybyddiaeth hon, a hoffwn ddiolch i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet am roi'r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf i ni ar y cynnydd sydd wedi'i wneud ac am gydnabod bod ffordd bell i fynd o hyd. Er bod cynnydd wedi'i wneud, mae troseddau casineb yn dal i fod yn realiti dyddiol i lawer o bobl yng Nghymru, yn difetha bywydau pobl, ac mae pobl yn byw mewn ofn o ddioddef troseddau casineb. Mae'n adlewyrchiad ofnadwy o'r gymdeithas yr ydym yn byw ynddi, ac mae'n cwmpasu cymaint o feysydd. Heddiw, roeddwn i'n awyddus i ganolbwyntio yn arbennig ar driniaeth aelodau o'r gymuned Sipsiwn, Roma a Theithwyr, sydd yn aml iawn yn darged troseddau casineb a gwahaniaethu yma yng Nghymru. Nid yw targedu'r gymuned hon yn ddim byd newydd; mae wedi bod yn digwydd ers blynyddoedd lawer. Yn ystod yr Wythnos Ymwybyddiaeth o Droseddau Casineb, gwn y bydd grŵp o bobl ifanc o'r gymuned yn y de-ddwyrain yn cyfarfod â Chomisiynydd Heddlu a Throseddu Gwent i siarad am fynd i'r afael â bwlio a throseddau casineb yn erbyn y gymuned Sipsiwn, Roma a Theithwyr. Rwy'n meddwl bod croeso mawr i hynny, er mwyn i'r materion gael eu hystyried gan y comisiynydd, oherwydd, yn anffodus, mae'r gymuned yn dioddef o wahaniaethu ac mae angen mynd i'r afael ag agweddau negyddol tuag at y gymuned hon. Mae pobl ifanc o'r gymuned Sipsiwn a Theithwyr a oedd yn ymwneud â'r prosiect Teithio Ymlaen yn teimlo'n gryf iawn bod angen o hyd i hyfforddi athrawon, swyddogion yr heddlu a gweithwyr proffesiynol eraill, oherwydd eu bod yn parhau yn dargedau ar gyfer gwahaniaethu a throseddau casineb, ac maent wedi cydgasglu a chreu nifer o adnoddau i fynd i'r afael â hyn. Er enghraifft, maen nhw wedi gwneud rhai ffilmiau byrion, wedi ysgrifennu cerddi ac wedi gwneud cyflwyniadau, a fydd ar gael er mwyn hyfforddi athrawon, yr heddlu, cynghorwyr a phobl ifanc eraill. Ac mae hynny'n fy arwain ymlaen at bwynt arall, sef pan fo troseddau casineb yn cael eu hadrodd, mae'n ymddangos bod problem yn parhau gyda'r modd yr ymdrinnir â'r troseddau hynny a sut y maent yn cael eu cofnodi. Gwnaeth prosiect ymchwil troseddau casineb Cymru gyfan gydgasglu nifer y troseddau casineb a gofnodwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr yn 2011-12, ac roedd y mwyafrif helaeth o'r rhain, 82 y cant, yn droseddau casineb hiliol, ond dim ond 45 y cant o'r rheini a oedd wedi dioddef trosedd casineb a oedd o'r farn bod yr heddlu wedi rhoi ystyriaeth mor ddifrifol ag y dylent fod wedi ei rhoi i'r mater, ac mae hyn yn cyd-fynd â phrofiadau Sipsiwn a Theithwyr a oedd yn rhan o'r prosiect Teithio Ymlaen. Maen nhw o'r farn nad yw'r heddlu yn gwrando arnynt o hyd. Gwn fod hyfforddi ar waith yn yr heddlu, ond canfyddiad y bobl ifanc yw nad ydynt yn gwrando arnynt. Rwy'n credu bod problem hefyd ynglŷn â'r modd y mae heddluoedd yn casglu ystadegau am droseddau casineb a bod y data statws ethnig yn eithaf anodd ei ddadansoddi. Felly, mae'n eithaf anodd, mewn gwirionedd, i gael dadansoddiad o nifer y troseddau casineb a gyfeirir yn benodol yn erbyn Sipsiwn a Theithwyr, oherwydd eu bod wedi eu cynnwys yn y ffigurau troseddu ethnig cyffredinol. Rwy'n credu y byddai'n welliant mawr pe bai modd i ni rannu'r ffigurau hynny, oherwydd, yn enwedig gyda Sipsiwn a Theithwyr, mae angen inni wybod beth yw'r ffigurau hynny a pha mor fawr yw'r dioddefaint hyn. Yn olaf hoffwn i, mewn gwirionedd, gloi gyda syniadau un o'r bobl ifanc o'r grŵp Teithio Ymlaen, Tyrone Price. Gofynnodd gwestiwn sy'n peri i rywun feddwl, yn fy marn i, ac rwy'n credu ei fod yn gwestiwn dilys iawn: a ydym ni wedi gwella'r modd o fynd i'r afael â hiliaeth mewn gwirionedd, neu a yw pobl yn gwneud dim ond esgus eu bod yn derbyn y cysyniad hwn o gydraddoldeb? Rwy'n credu bod hyn yn amlwg yn rhywbeth y mae'r person ifanc hwn ei deimlo i'r byw, sef bod llawer o'r cynnydd a wnaed gennym tuag at gydraddoldeb, yn arwynebol neu'n symbolaidd efallai, a bod yn rhaid i ni fynd ati o ddifrif i wneud cydraddoldeb hiliol yn realiti llwyr, yn enwedig ar gyfer y bobl ifanc sy'n dioddef o ragfarn a throseddau casineb. Fel y dywedais, mae fy sylwadau heddiw yn ymwneud mewn gwirionedd â'r gymuned Sipsiwn a Theithwyr.