English: May I ask for a statement from the Deputy Minister for sport on the serious challenges facing the highest levels of football in Wales? Welsh premiership games are, of course, played behind closed doors these days, and that places huge financial strain on these clubs. That's not sustainable without either allowing a proportion of supporters to attend those games or providing financial support. And I hear what the Minister said on funds from Sport Wales, but there are no assurances, as yet, on that front. More importantly on policy, it's an entirely absurd situation. Government policy says at the moment that you can't go into a stadium to watch a game, standing in the open air, socially distanced, but you can go to the pub to watch the same game, or in some circumstances, you can go to the clubhouse in the stadium, where the game is being played, and watch the game through the window. That is the situation that the Welsh Government policy leaves us in at the moment. It's a complete farce. It would be far safer to allow some supporters to attend those games in a responsible and managed way. Simultaneously, tier 2 clubs, the Cymru North and Cymru South league clubs, can't play at all, of course, although a number of the players are semi-professional, as they are in the higher league, although the clubs have to meet the FAW's criteria to get a tier 2 licence, and although many tier 2 clubs, which can't play, meet the same criteria as the tier 1 grounds, which are allowed to play, and some of those tier 2 grounds are being used for Welsh premiership women's football games, which are allowed to be played. This policy is all over the place and I want the Deputy Minister to come here to explain the rationale, because in my view, and the view of many others, this is entirely absurd.
Welsh: Gaf i ofyn am ddatganiad gan y Dirprwy Weinidog dros chwaraeon am yr heriau difrifol sy'n wynebu haenau uchaf pêl-droed yng Nghymru? Mae gemau uwch gynghrair Cymru, wrth gwrs, yn cael eu chwarae y tu ôl i ddrysau caeedig ar hyn o bryd ac mae hynny'n rhoi straen ariannol aruthrol ar y clybiau yma. Dyw hynny ddim yn gynaliadwy heb naill ai ganiatáu rhywfaint o gefnogwyr i fynychu'r gemau hynny, neu, wrth gwrs, i ddarparu cefnogaeth ariannol. A dwi'n clywed beth ddywedodd y Gweinidog ynglŷn â chronfeydd gan Chwaraeon Cymru, ond does dim sicrwydd eto ar y ffrynt yna. Yn bwysicach na hynny o ran polisi, mae yn sefyllfa gwbl wirion. Mae polisi'r Llywodraeth yn dweud ar hyn o bryd cewch chi ddim mynd i mewn i'r stadiwm i wylio gêm, sefyll yn yr awyr agored, wedi'i wahanu'n gymdeithasol, ond fe gewch chi fynd i'r dafarn i wylio'r un gêm, neu yn wir, mewn rhai sefyllfaoedd, fe gewch chi fynd i'r clubhouse yn y stadiwm, lle mae'r gêm yn digwydd, a gwylio'r gêm drwy'r ffenest. Dyna yw sefyllfa polisi Llywodraeth Cymru ar hyn o bryd. Mae'n ffars llwyr. Byddai'n llawer mwy diogel caniatáu rhywfaint, beth bynnag, o gefnogwyr i fynychu'r gemau hynny mewn modd wedi'i reoli a modd cyfrifol. Ac ar yr un pryd, dyw clybiau tier 2, sef cynghreiriau Cymru North a Cymru South ddim yn cael chwarae o gwbl, wrth gwrs, er bod llawer o'r chwaraewyr, fel yn uwch gynghrair Cymru, yn chwaraewyr lled broffesiynol, er bod yn rhaid i'r clwb fodloni meini prawf y gymdeithas bêl-droed i gael trwydded tier 2, ac er bod nifer fawr o feysydd chwarae clybiau tier 2, sydd ddim yn cael chwarae, yn cwrdd â'r un criteria â meysydd tier 1, sydd yn cael chwarae, a bod rhai o'r meysydd tier 2 yna'n cael eu defnyddio ar gyfer gemau uwch gynghrair merched Cymru, sydd yn cael eu chwarae. Mae'r polisi yma dros y siop i gyd a dwi eisiau i'r Dirprwy Weinidog i ddod fan hyn i esbonio'r rhesymeg, oherwydd, yn fy marn i a nifer o bobl eraill, mae'n gwbl, gwbl hurt.