English: I'm having internet difficulties. I welcome, of course, the work of the committee, the Chair, and also, hopefully, the response from the Minister, Dafydd Elis-Thomas. As Members of the Senedd will know, the value of the live music industry across Wales, in all its genres, is £5.2 billion across the UK, and its equivalency in Wales is of equal importance to both Wales's creativity internationally, as brand Wales, and also the economy. So, I do very much welcome this report by Professor Paul Carr of the University of South Wales, and I suggest Members also read his previous report, 'Land of Song'. I agree both with recommendations 2 and 3 wholeheartedly - that we have a co-ordinated approach and, as across Europe and New Zealand, a dedicated performance reopening strategy, alongside a sustainable development strategy for all of the music industries in our music sector. I am in no doubt that Wales, the land of song, would then be well placed. We need to start to co-construct together, as it states within this report, with our stakeholders also, a new national music strategy for Wales with an underpinning music education plan and a funded network of music support services across Wales, to safeguard the music performers of the future. And so there has never been a more important time, as we approach this perfect storm of COVID-19 impacts on the sector and the looming issues of EU exit. As has been said by Siân Gwenllian, if cinemas can open, then I'm sure that limited and mitigated reopening of theatres and halls is also needing careful consideration. The sector has been facing real challenges for some time, let us not forget, and after a decade of UK Government austerity, this has also severely impacted the musical and cultural hinterland of Wales. And of course, the pandemic has given us more agony with the economically regressive consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. So, I also welcome the £53 million and the £18 million that the Welsh Government has put in place within the cultural recovery fund, and I also welcome the £3.5 million announcement from today in regard to the support that has just been announced. But I would also like to state briefly, if I may, Deputy Llywydd, that this is all very well and good; what we will have to have as well is an ability to be able to rehearse at ground level. It's been very difficult approaching the different guidance and documents that have come out of Welsh Government, so I very much welcome any amendment and clarification within those pieces of guidance, which I believe is now going to be happening. It is absolutely imperative, to close, that our male voice choirs, that our choral societies, that our historic brass bands, who currently are unable to perform, whilst the likes of those in education, within the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and across our professional orchestras, are able to rehearse - I would plead with Welsh Government: please look at the evidence in regard to performance around singing and around wind instrumentation. We have to do this, not just for Wales, but for the whole amount of the sector that is there, desperately looking for us, now, to lead the way, and I'm sure that that can be done. Thank you.
Welsh: Rwy'n cael anawsterau gyda'r rhyngrwyd. Rwy'n croesawu gwaith y pwyllgor wrth gwrs, y Cadeirydd, a hefyd, gobeithio, ymateb y Gweinidog, Dafydd Elis-Thomas. Fel y gŵyr yr Aelodau o'r Senedd, gwerth y diwydiant cerddoriaeth fyw ledled Cymru, yn ei holl ffurfiau, yw £5.2 biliwn ledled y DU, ac mae ei werth cyfatebol yng Nghymru yr un mor bwysig i greadigrwydd Cymru yn rhyngwladol, fel brand Cymru, a hefyd yr economi. Felly, rwy'n croesawu'n fawr yr adroddiad hwn gan yr Athro Paul Carr o Brifysgol De Cymru, ac awgrymaf fod yr Aelodau hefyd yn darllen ei adroddiad blaenorol, 'Gwlad y Gân'. Rwy'n cytuno'n llwyr ag argymhellion 2 a 3 - fod gennym ddull cydgysylltiedig ac fel ledled Ewrop a Seland Newydd, strategaeth benodol ar gyfer ailagor perfformio, ochr yn ochr â strategaeth datblygu cynaliadwy ar gyfer yr holl ddiwydiannau cerddoriaeth yn ein sector cerddoriaeth. Nid oes gennyf amheuaeth na fyddai Cymru, gwlad y gân, mewn sefyllfa dda wedyn. Fel y mae'r adroddiad hwn yn ei nodi, mae angen inni fynd ati ar y cyd gyda'n rhanddeiliaid hefyd i ddechrau llunio strategaeth gerddoriaeth genedlaethol newydd i Gymru gyda chynllun addysg cerddoriaeth yn sail iddi a rhwydwaith wedi'i ariannu o wasanaethau cymorth cerddoriaeth ledled Cymru, i ddiogelu perfformwyr cerddoriaeth y dyfodol. Ac felly ni fu erioed amser pwysicach, wrth i ni wynebu'r storm berffaith hon o effeithiau COVID-19 ar y sector a'r materion sy'n codi yn sgil gadael yr UE. Fel y dywedodd Siân Gwenllian, os gall sinemâu agor, rwy'n siŵr fod angen ystyried ailagor theatrau a neuaddau hefyd mewn modd cyfyngedig. Gadewch inni beidio ag anghofio bod y sector wedi bod yn wynebu heriau gwirioneddol ers peth amser, ac ar ôl degawd o gyni Llywodraeth y DU, mae hyn hefyd wedi effeithio'n ddifrifol ar gefnwlad gerddorol a diwylliannol Cymru. Ac wrth gwrs, mae'r pandemig wedi rhoi mwy o ofid i ni gyda chanlyniadau economaidd atchwel pandemig COVID-19. Felly, rwyf hefyd yn croesawu'r £53 miliwn a'r £18 miliwn y mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi'i roi yn ei le o fewn y gronfa adferiad diwylliannol, ac rwyf hefyd yn croesawu'r cyhoeddiad o £3.5 miliwn heddiw ynglŷn â'r gefnogaeth sydd newydd ei chyhoeddi. Ond hoffwn ddatgan yn fyr hefyd, os caf, Ddirprwy Lywydd, fod hyn i gyd yn iawn, ond yr hyn y bydd yn rhaid inni ei gael hefyd yw'r gallu i ymarfer ar lawr gwlad. Mae wedi bod yn anodd iawn dilyn y gwahanol ganllawiau a'r dogfennau a ddaeth gan Lywodraeth Cymru, felly rwy'n croesawu'n fawr unrhyw welliant ac eglurhad o fewn y canllawiau hynny, a chredaf fod hynny'n mynd i ddigwydd nawr. I gloi, mae'n gwbl hanfodol fod ein corau meibion, ein cymdeithasau corawl, ein bandiau pres hanesyddol, nad ydynt yn gallu perfformio ar hyn o bryd, tra bod pobl fel y rhai mewn addysg, yng Ngholeg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru ac ar draws ein cerddorfeydd proffesiynol, yn gallu ymarfer - hoffwn erfyn ar Lywodraeth Cymru: edrychwch ar y dystiolaeth mewn perthynas â pherfformio o ran canu ac offerynnau chwyth. Rhaid inni wneud hyn, nid yn unig i Gymru, ond i'r holl sector sydd yno, sy'n taer obeithio y gwnawn ni arwain y ffordd nawr, ac rwy'n siŵr y gellir gwneud hynny. Diolch.