English: I certainly welcome this report. The monitoring of how our public sector bodies comply with their equality duties is essential, and only this week we've seen Rhondda Cynon Taf council criticised for spending £80,000 on a bus station revamp, whilst omitting to make step-free access provision so that it's available for all. This demonstrates the utmost importance of this annual debate, and how critical it is for the Welsh Government to actually work hard to ensure their equality policies are enforced across Wales. I welcome the figures noted in relation to procurement in public sector procurement, showing that £1.1 billion invested and that £232 million went directly on salaries to Welsh citizens, £706 million with Welsh-based businesses, of which 78 per cent were SMEs, helping 1,595 disadvantaged people into employment. Additionally, £83,000 was reinvested in Wales - a commendable figure, but just 1 per cent more than 2013, so there is a spending gap there. There are a couple of areas I would like to focus on today, and that is health and social care, refugees, and equal pay. The Welsh Government's revised health and care standards noted in its report how services should provide high-quality, safe and reliable care, centred on the person. Further to this, our amendment today, our first one, calls on the Welsh Government 'to clarify the progress made in relation to the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, Part 2 Code of Practice, which requires local authorities to work in partnership with people to co-produce the solutions to meet their personal well-being outcomes.' Cabinet Secretary, as we've seen in the news and in our own constituencies, this is not happening consistently across Wales. People able to return home from hospital are still forced to bedblock until a suitable care package is available. At present, we have 239 people in Wales who have been waiting more than three weeks to leave hospital, to go home - 64 have been waiting over three months, and 25 over six. Equality of service, care provision, treatment, and joined-up working is not happening as it should, and I ask you how you are working to address this. The Syrian resettlement programme noted in the report is intended to help resettle up to 20,000 Syrian refugees across the UK. In evidence taken by our committee - the Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee - there has been much criticism from mainly everybody who has given us evidence that there is now a two-tier system in Wales. We've heard that whilst the support given to the resettled Syrian families is the gold standard with regard to housing, through the Welsh Refugee Council and Displaced People in Action, yet it does contrast so hugely with the support available - in some cases, none - for refugees from other countries who turn up at the Welsh Refugee Council every day. In response to my recent written Assembly question, you advised that you are aiming to achieve parity. I wonder if you would go into more detail today as to how this is being undertaken and how this will actually get through to the front line and onto the ground. Now then, the Equal Pay Act came into force in 1970, and I've had cases that have gone on for nine years. In one case, one lady, begrudged her payment to bring her in line with law of £800, it took her nine years until my intervention to get her that money. In response to my raising this issue, the Cabinet Secretary for local government requested the WLGA to look at equal pay in more detail, and to put pressure on local authorities to settle. There are hundreds of cases of people - women - who have not received their equal pay for the work that they have carried out, and it's wrong. Since 2011-12, councils have spent over £5.5 million of taxpayers' money fighting these very valued front-line workers to settling their claims. This money is owed - it belongs to them - and they have missed out on this through inequality at its worst. Cabinet Secretary, under objectives 2 and 8 of the strategic equality plan, will you seek to look into this? The Welsh Government's assessment of the strategic plan and equality objectives did not address this in the November 2016 report. As a scrutinising and law-making body, we have an obligation to ensure that our local authorities and all public bodies don't just produce the strategies, but they actually run the thread of equality across every single public service that's delivered across Wales. Thank you.
Welsh: Rwy'n sicr yn croesawu'r adroddiad hwn. Mae'r gwaith o fonitro sut mae ein cyrff yn y sector cyhoeddus yn cydymffurfio â'u dyletswyddau cydraddoldeb yn hanfodol. Dim ond yr wythnos hon fe welsom Gyngor Rhondda Cynon Taf yn cael ei feirniadu am wario £80,000 ar ailwampio gorsaf fysiau, heb wneud darpariaeth ar gyfer mynediad heb risiau fel ei fod ar gael i bawb. Mae hyn yn dangos pwysigrwydd mwyaf y ddadl flynyddol hon, a pha mor hanfodol yw hi bod Llywodraeth Cymru o ddifrif yn gweithio'n galed i sicrhau bod ei pholisïau cydraddoldeb yn cael eu gorfodi ar draws Cymru. Rwy'n croesawu'r ffigurau a nodir mewn cysylltiad â chaffael ym maes caffael yn y sector cyhoeddus, gan ddangos bod £1.1 biliwn wedi'i fuddsoddi a bod £232 miliwn wedi mynd yn uniongyrchol ar gyflogau i ddinasyddion Cymru, £706 miliwn gyda busnesau o Gymru, yr oedd 78 y cant ohonynt yn fusnesau bach a chanolig, gan helpu 1,595 o bobl dan anfantais i gael gwaith. Yn ogystal â hyn, mae £83,000 wedi ei ail-fuddsoddi yng Nghymru - ffigwr clodwiw, ond dim ond 1 y cant yn fwy na 2013, felly mae bwlch gwario yno. Mae cwpl o feysydd yr hoffwn ganolbwyntio arnynt heddiw, sef iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol, ffoaduriaid, a chyflog cyfartal. Roedd safonau iechyd a gofal diwygiedig Llywodraeth Cymru yn nodi yn ei adroddiad sut y dylai gwasanaethau ddarparu gofal diogel a dibynadwy, o ansawdd uchel sy'n canolbwyntio ar yr unigolyn. Yn ogystal â hyn, mae ein gwelliant heddiw, ein gwelliant cyntaf, yn galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru: i egluro'r cynnydd a wnaed mewn perthynas â Deddf Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a Llesiant (Cymru) 2014, Cod Ymarfer Rhan 2, sy'n ei gwneud yn ofynnol i awdurdodau lleol weithio mewn partneriaeth â phobl i gyd-gynhyrchu'r atebion i ddiwallu eu canlyniadau llesiant personol. Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet, fel yr ydym wedi gweld yn y newyddion ac yn ein hetholaethau ein hunain, nid yw hyn yn digwydd yn gyson ar draws Cymru. Mae pobl sy'n gallu dod adref o'r ysbyty yn dal i gael eu gorfodi i flocio gwelyau nes bydd pecyn gofal addas ar gael ar eu cyfer. Ar hyn o bryd, mae gennym 239 o bobl yng Nghymru sydd wedi bod yn aros mwy na thair wythnos i adael yr ysbyty a mynd adref - 64 wedi bod yn aros dros dri mis, a 25 dros chwe mis. Nid yw cydraddoldeb gwasanaeth, darpariaeth gofal, triniaeth a gweithio cydgysylltiedig yn digwydd fel y dylai, ac rwy'n gofyn i chi sut yr ydych yn gweithio i ymdrin â hyn. Bwriad rhaglen adsefydlu Syria a nodir yn yr adroddiad yw helpu i adsefydlu hyd at 20,000 o ffoaduriaid Syria ar draws y DU. Mewn tystiolaeth a gymerwyd gan ein pwyllgor ni - y Pwyllgor Cydraddoldeb, Llywodraeth Leol a Chymunedau - bu llawer o feirniadaeth gan bawb bron sydd wedi rhoi tystiolaeth i ni fod system ddwy haen yng Nghymru bellach. Rydym wedi clywed, er mai'r gefnogaeth a roddir i deuluoedd Syria a gafodd eu hadsefydlu yw'r safon aur o ran tai, trwy Gyngor Ffoaduriaid Cymru ac Alltudion ar Waith, eto mae'n cyferbynnu mor aruthrol â'r cymorth sydd ar gael - mewn rhai achosion, dim - ar gyfer ffoaduriaid o wledydd eraill sy'n cyrraedd Cyngor Ffoaduriaid Cymru bob dydd. Mewn ymateb i fy nghwestiwn ysgrifenedig diweddar yn y Cynulliad, dywedoch eich bod yn anelu at gyflawni cydraddoldeb. Tybed a fyddech yn sôn yn fanylach heddiw ynghylch sut mae hyn yn cael ei wneud a sut y bydd hyn mewn gwirionedd yn cyrraedd y rheng flaen ac yn cyrraedd llawr gwlad. Nawr te, daeth y Ddeddf Cyflog Cyfartal i rym ym 1970, ac rwyf wedi cael achosion sydd wedi mynd ymlaen am naw mlynedd. Yn achos un wraig, y cafodd ei thâl o £800, a fyddai wedi dod â hi yn unol â chyfraith, ei warafun, bu'n rhaid iddi aros naw mlynedd nes i fy ymyriad i gael yr arian hwnnw iddi. Wrth ymateb i mi yn codi'r mater hwn, gofynnodd Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros lywodraeth leol i Gymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru edrych ar gyflog cyfartal yn fwy manwl, ac i roi pwysau ar awdurdodau lleol i setlo. Mae cannoedd o achosion o bobl - merched - nad ydynt wedi derbyn eu cyflog cyfartal am y gwaith y maent wedi'i wneud, ac nid yw hynny'n iawn. Ers 2011-12, mae cynghorau wedi gwario dros £5.5 miliwn o arian trethdalwyr yn ymladd y gweithwyr rheng flaen gwerthfawr iawn hyn i setlo eu hawliadau. Mae'r arian yn ddyledus - mae'n perthyn iddynt hwy - ac maent wedi colli allan ar hyn drwy anghydraddoldeb ar ei waethaf. Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet, dan amcanion 2 a 8 y cynllun cydraddoldeb strategol, a fyddwch yn ceisio edrych ar hyn? Nid oedd asesiad Llywodraeth Cymru o'r cynllun strategol a'r amcanion cydraddoldeb yn mynd i'r afael â hyn yn adroddiad Tachwedd 2016. Fel corff craffu a deddfu, mae gennym rwymedigaeth i sicrhau bod ein hawdurdodau lleol a phob corff cyhoeddus nid yn unig yn cynhyrchu'r strategaethau, ond mewn gwirionedd yn rhedeg edau cydraddoldeb ar draws pob gwasanaeth cyhoeddus unigol sy'n cael ei ddarparu ledled Cymru. Diolch.