English: Certainly, there was a concern initially that there was a new body going to be placed above the national organisations that exist. And, of course, there was concern about the independence of those national organisations. Following the Minister, as he was at the time, establishing a working group - and Linda and I were on that working group - to consider the matter and to look at how we could move forward to establish more collaboration between these organisations, a report was prepared and presented to the Minister. The Minister accepted that report; he made a statement in the Senedd on that, and therefore we feel now that we are moving forward to ensure much more collaboration between the organisations, and we welcome that, and that facilitates our work, and, hopefully, leads to some savings. But it does offer new opportunities. One of the things that we noted in the report, for example, was that, if we were talking about apprenticeships, if an apprenticeship was offered to someone across the four organisations, rather than just having an apprenticeship in the library, they could go to the museum and the royal commission also - that would expand the opportunities within that apprenticeship. Therefore, on the basis of the report that was presented to the Minister, which has been accepted, we do now feel that there is a moving forward in terms of collaboration between organisations without the independence of those organisations being threatened in any way. Namely, Wales is very short of national organisations and eroding the independence of any national organisation would be something that I would have great concern about. I and the board of trustees are now content that this collaboration is ongoing without the independence of those organisations in any way being undermined.
Welsh: Yn sicr, fe oedd yna gonsýrn ar y cychwyn fod yna ryw gorff newydd yn mynd i gael ei osod uwchben y sefydliadau cenedlaethol sydd yn bodoli. Wrth reswm, fe oedd yna gonsýrn ynglŷn ag annibyniaeth y sefydliadau cenedlaethol hynny. Wedi i'r Gweinidog, fel yr oedd ef y bryd hynny, sefydlu gweithgor - a buodd Linda a minnau'n eistedd ar y gweithgor - i ystyried y mater ac i edrych ar sut y gallwn ni symud ymlaen i gael mwy o gydweithredu rhwng y sefydliadau yma, fe baratowyd adroddiad a gyflwynwyd i'r Gweinidog. Fe dderbyniodd y Gweinidog yr adroddiad hwnnw; fe wnaeth e ddatganiad yn y Senedd ynglŷn â hynny, ac felly, rŷm ni'n teimlo, nawr, ein bod ni'n symud ymlaen i sicrhau llawer iawn mwy o gydweithredu rhwng y sefydliadau, a rŷm ni'n croesawu hynny, ac mae hynny'n hwyluso'n gwaith ni, a gobeithio, yn mynd i arwain at rai arbedion. Ond mae'n cynnig cyfleoedd newydd. Un o'r pethau y gwnaethom ni nodi yn yr adroddiad, er enghraifft, petaem ni'n sôn am brentisiaethau, petai prentisiaeth yn cael ei chynnig i unrhyw un ar draws y pedwar sefydliad, yn hytrach na dim ond cael prentisiaeth yn y llyfrgell, y ffaith eu bod nhw'n gallu mynd i'r amgueddfa hefyd a'r comisiwn brenhinol - mae hynny'n mynd i ehangu'r profiadau o fewn y brentisiaeth honno. Felly, ar sail yr adroddiad a gyflwynwyd i'r Gweinidog, sydd wedi cael ei dderbyn ganddo ef, rŷm ni yn teimlo nawr bod yna symud ymlaen gyda chydweithredu rhwng y sefydliadau heb fod annibyniaeth y sefydliadau hynny'n cael eu bygwth mewn unrhyw ffordd. Hynny yw, mae Cymru'n brin o sefydliadau cenedlaethol, ac fe fyddai erydu annibyniaeth unrhyw sefydliad cenedlaethol yn rhywbeth y byddai gennym ni gonsýrn enfawr amdano fe. Felly, rydw i a bwrdd yr ymddiriedolwyr, bellach, yn hapus bod y cydweithio'n digwydd heb fod annibyniaeth y sefydliadau, mewn unrhyw ffordd, yn cael ei thanseilio.