English: Llywydd, can I begin by welcoming the reports that have been seen today of progress in discussions between the UK Government and the European Commission on the Northern Ireland protocol matter? At the heart of that will be the issue of regulatory alignment, to which Joyce Watson has referred. In order to be able to make sure that Welsh exports get unfettered access to the European Union market, our European Union neighbours will need to know that the standards of those goods do not undermine the rest of the single market. So, if progress has been made in the way that's been reported, I certainly welcome that, and it would, I hope, prefigure a different approach to the whole relationship that the United Kingdom needs to have with our nearest and most important market. As far as Welsh exports are concerned, I thank Joyce Watson for drawing attention to the fact that the value of Welsh exports has recovered beyond pandemic levels. It's a real tribute to the activity of those who work in this field, because the barriers have been real and the barriers continue to exist. Just one word of caution on the figures themselves, Llywydd, which, of course, is that the cash value of exports has been driven up by inflation as well as by the volume of exports. So, there may be a small amount of gloss on those figures that we will need to take into account. The Welsh Government will go on supporting our exporters in the first half of this year; there are 15 different trade missions planned between now and the end of June. Some of those will be sector specific; there are food trade missions, there are trade missions in the field of games development, which has become such an important part of the UK economy, there are trade missions in the field of aerospace as well as multisector missions. They will go to Dubai, to the United States, to South America, to Japan, to South Korea and to a series of destinations in Europe. And the Welsh Government's support to our exporters will be there to make sure that the success to which Joyce Watson has drawn our attention can be continued from last year into the first half of this.
Welsh: Llywydd, a gaf i ddechrau drwy groesawu'r adroddiadau a welwyd heddiw o gynnydd mewn trafodaethau rhwng Llywodraeth y Deyrnas Unedig a'r Comisiwn Ewropeaidd ar fater protocol Gogledd Iwerddon? Wrth wraidd hynny bydd mater aliniad rheoleiddiol, y mae Joyce Watson wedi cyfeirio ato. Er mwyn gallu gwneud yn siŵr bod allforion Cymru'n cael mynediad dilyffethair i farchnad yr Undeb Ewropeaidd, bydd angen i'n cymdogion ni yn yr Undeb Ewropeaidd wybod nad yw safonau'r nwyddau hynny'n tanseilio gweddill y farchnad sengl. Felly, os yw cynnydd wedi'i wneud yn y ffordd sydd wedi'i adrodd, rwy'n sicr yn croesawu hynny, a byddai, gobeithio, yn rhagddarlunio ymagwedd wahanol at yr holl berthynas y mae angen i'r Deyrnas Unedig ei chael gyda'n marchnad agosaf a phwysicaf. O ran allforion Cymru, diolch i Joyce Watson am dynnu sylw at y ffaith bod gwerth allforion Cymreig wedi adfer y tu hwnt i lefelau'r pandemig. Mae'n deyrnged go iawn i weithgaredd y rhai sy'n gweithio yn y maes hwn, oherwydd mae'r rhwystrau wedi bod yn rhai go iawn ac mae'r rhwystrau'n parhau i fodoli. Un gair o rybudd yn unig ynghylch y ffigurau eu hunain, Llywydd, sef, wrth gwrs, mae gwerth arian allforion wedi ei ysgogi gan chwyddiant yn ogystal â maint yr allforion. Felly, efallai y bydd angen i ni ystyried bod ychydig o sglein ar y ffigurau hynny. Bydd Llywodraeth Cymru yn parhau i gefnogi ein hallforwyr yn hanner cyntaf eleni; mae 15 o deithiau masnach gwahanol wedi'u cynllunio rhwng nawr a diwedd Mehefin. Bydd rhai o'r rheiny ar gyfer sectorau penodol; mae teithiau masnach bwyd, mae teithiau masnach ym maes datblygu gemau, sydd wedi dod yn rhan mor bwysig o economi'r DU, mae teithiau masnach ym maes awyrofod yn ogystal â theithiau aml-sector. Byddant yn mynd i Dubai, i'r Unol Daleithiau, i Dde America, i Japan, i Dde Corea ac i gyfres o gyrchfannau yn Ewrop. A bydd cefnogaeth Llywodraeth Cymru i'n hallforwyr yno i wneud yn siŵr bod modd parhau â'r llwyddiant y mae Joyce Watson wedi tynnu ein sylw ato o'r llynedd i mewn i hanner cyntaf eleni.