English: Well, Llywydd, I agree with the point that David Melding is making. We have very difficult experience in Wales of generations of young people without a future mapped out in front of them, and we absolutely do not want to go back to that in this crisis. I agree with what the Member said - that there will be young people who will choose to use this period to invest further in developing their own skills and education, so that, when an upturn comes, they are better equipped to take advantage of it, and we will want to help them to make sure that that happens. I know that the Member will have seen the announcement on 11 November, where we provided further detail of the help that businesses can have - and further education colleges, of course, as a result - to promote apprenticeships here in Wales. Businesses are now able to claim £3,000 for each new apprentice under the age of 25 when employed for at least 30 hours, and I know that David Melding will particularly welcome the fact that there is an additional £1,500 for any business who is able to take on a new disabled young person as an apprentice. On 18 November, we announced the business start-up barriers fund, a sum of £1.2 million, particularly aimed at those young people who left college and university in 2019 and 2020 who may have ideas of their own about businesses they would wish to try and get off the ground, but need that extra help and support from Government in order to be able to do so, and that business start-up barrier fund will particularly be aimed at the sort of young people to whom David Melding has drawn attention this afternoon.
Welsh: Wel, Llywydd, rwy'n cytuno â'r pwynt y mae David Melding yn ei wneud. Mae gennym ni brofiad anodd iawn yng Nghymru o genedlaethau o bobl ifanc heb ddyfodol wedi'i fapio o'u blaenau, ac yn sicr nid ydym ni eisiau dychwelyd i hynny yn yr argyfwng hwn. Rwy'n cytuno â'r hyn a ddywedodd yr Aelod - y bydd pobl ifanc a fydd yn dewis defnyddio'r cyfnod hwn i fuddsoddi ymhellach mewn datblygu eu sgiliau a'u haddysg eu hunain, fel eu bod, pan fydd pethau'n gwella, yn fwy parod i fanteisio ar hynny, a byddwn ni eisiau eu helpu nhw i wneud yn siŵr bod hynny'n digwydd. Gwn y bydd yr Aelod wedi gweld y cyhoeddiad ar 11 Tachwedd, pan ddarparwyd rhagor o fanylion gennym am y cymorth y gall busnesau ei gael - a cholegau addysg bellach, wrth gwrs, o ganlyniad - i hyrwyddo prentisiaethau yma yng Nghymru. Mae busnesau yn gallu hawlio £3,000 erbyn hyn ar gyfer pob prentis newydd o dan 25 oed pan ei fod yn cael ei gyflogi am o leiaf 30 awr, a gwn y bydd David Melding yn croesawu yn arbennig y ffaith bod £1,500 ychwanegol ar gyfer unrhyw fusnes sy'n gallu cyflogi person ifanc anabl newydd fel prentis. Ar 18 Tachwedd, cyhoeddwyd y gronfa rhwystrau dechrau busnes gennym, swm o £1.2 filiwn, wedi ei thargedu yn benodol ar gyfer y bobl ifanc hynny a adawodd y coleg a'r brifysgol yn 2019 a 2020 y gallai fod ganddyn nhw syniadau eu hunain am fusnesau yr hoffen nhw geisio eu cychwyn, ond sydd angen y cymorth a'r gefnogaeth ychwanegol hynny gan y Llywodraeth er mwyn gallu gwneud hynny, a bydd y gronfa rhwystrau dechrau busnes honno wedi'i thargedu yn arbennig at y math o bobl ifanc y mae David Melding wedi tynnu sylw atyn nhw y prynhawn yma.