English: If I can just expand on my previous experiences. My first role was with the Welsh Language Board, as it happens, so that's given me an early understanding of the policy area around the Welsh language and how things have developed over the years. In terms of the most pertinent skills to the role of Welsh Language Commissioner, and my previous experience, I would like to refer to my work with Urdd Gobaith Cymru. I started with the Urdd as a fundraiser, finding commercial sponsorship for activities only to increase the opportunities available to children and young people. Following that, I was appointed chief executive of the Urdd, many years ago now, and I was chief executive of Urdd Gobaith Cymru for around 12 years, if memory serves me. Experiences relevant to this role included engaging with people across Wales, understanding how much voluntary work is done by excellent people across Wales to develop activities for children and young people, developing corporate plans for the organisation, developing means of attracting funding and managing projects successfully, ensuring effective governance, looking in detail at budgets and ensuring financial management, always prioritising what was most important to the organisation, and just ensuring effective management of one of Wales's biggest charities. In terms of my role with the National Centre for Learning Welsh, that organisation didn't exist prior to my appointment, so I have established that body and - I hope people would agree - transformed the position of learning Welsh across Wales - not myself alone, of course, but with my colleagues and with the committed learning providers across Wales. And now we can say that we have one national service for Welsh learners. Developing a strategic plan for that body has been a priority for me, and early decisions in the life of the centre, for example prioritising investment in digital, and creating a one-stop shop for learners on a digital platform, meant that when COVID struck, we were able not only to continue to deliver our services, but indeed to increase the numbers of Welsh learners. So, in terms of previous experience, I've led organisations, I've encouraged colleagues and worked happily with colleagues, I have experience of developing marketing campaigns to attract people to learn Welsh and to participate in activities, I have experience of managing events - the Urdd National Eisteddfod, of course, was an event where there was a great deal of risk assessment and so on. So, I have vast experience hopefully that will qualify me for this role. This role, of course, is different; I'm sure it's perhaps more political in its nature, although in my previous roles, I have had to maintain good relations with all parties, and certainly with Ministers in order to attract more funding and investment and to reassure Ministers that the organisations that I was responsible for were doing good work and that we were keeping our words in terms of delivery.
Welsh: Mi wnaf i jest ymhelaethu ychydig ar fy mhrofiadau blaenorol. Mi oedd fy swydd gyntaf i gyda Bwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg, fel mae'n digwydd, felly mae hynny wedi rhoi dealltwriaeth gynnar i fi o faes polisi'r Gymraeg a sut mae pethau wedi datblygu dros y blynyddoedd. O ran y sgiliau efallai mwyaf perthnasol i swydd Comisiynydd y Gymraeg, a'r swyddi a phrofiad blaenorol, hoffwn i gyfeirio at fy ngwaith gydag Urdd Gobaith Cymru. Fe ddechreuais i gyda'r Urdd yn codi aran a nawdd masnachol i weithgareddau'r Urdd, dim ond er mwyn cynyddu'r gweithgareddau rôn i'n gallu eu cynnig i blant a phobl ifanc. Yn dilyn hynny, ces i fy mhenodi yn brif weithredwr yr Urdd, flynyddoedd lawer yn ôl erbyn hyn, ac fe fues i'n brif weithredwr ar Urdd Gobaeith Cymru am tua 12 o flynyddoedd, os cofiaf i'n iawn. Mi oedd y profiadau perthnasol i'r swydd yma yn cynnwys ymgysylltu gyda phobl ar draws Cymru, sylweddoli cymaint o waith gwirfoddol mae pobl wych yn ei wneud ar draws Cymru i ddatblygu gweithgareddau i blant a phobl ifanc, datblygu cynlluniau corfforaethol i'r corff, datblygu dulliau o ddenu arian a rheoli prosiectau yn llwyddiannus, sicrhau llywodraethiant effeithiol, edrych yn fanwl ar gyllidebau a sicrhau rheolaeth ariannol, blaenoriaethu drwy'r amser beth oedd yn bwysicaf i'r sefydliad, a jest sicrhau rheolaeth effeithiol o un o elusennau mwyaf Cymru. O ran fy rôl gyda'r Ganolfan Dysgu Cymraeg Genedlaethol, doedd y corff hwnnw ddim yn bodoli tan i fi gael fy mhenodi, felly dwi wedi sefydlu'r corff hwnnw a, dwi'n gobeithio y byddai pobl yn cytuno, wedi trawsnewid sefyllfa dysgu Cymraeg ar draws Cymru - nid fi yn unig, wrth gwrs, ond gyda fy nghydweithwyr a gyda'r darparwyr dysgu Cymraeg ymroddedig ar draws Cymru. Ac erbyn hyn, rŷn ni'n gallu dweud bod gyda ni un gwasanaeth cenedlaethol i ddysgwyr y Gymraeg. Mae datblygu cynllun strategol i'r corff hwnnw wedi bod yn flaenoriaeth i fi, ac mi oedd penderfyniadau cynnar iawn ym mywyd y ganolfan, er enghraifft blaenoriaethu buddsoddi mewn pethau digidol, a chreu gwasanaeth siop un stop i ddysgwyr ar blatfform digidol, wedi golygu, pan ddaeth amser COVID, ein bod ni wedi gallu nid yn unig parhau â'n gwasanaethau ond cynyddu y niferoedd yn dysgu Cymraeg. Felly, o ran profiad blaenorol, mae gen i brofiad o arwain sefydliadau, o gymell cydweithwyr, o gydweithio'n hapus gyda chydweithwyr, profiad o gynnal ymgyrchoedd marchnata i ddenu pobl i ddysgu Cymraeg, i gymryd rhan mewn gweithgareddau, profiad o reoli digwyddiadau - Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yr Urdd, wrth gwrs, yn ddigwyddiad lle roedd angen tipyn o asesu risg ac yn y blaen. Felly, profiadau helaeth dwi'n gobeithio sy'n fy ngwneud i'n gymwys ar gyfer y swydd yma. Mae'r swydd yma, wrth gwrs, yn wahanol; siŵr o fod yn fwy gwleidyddol ei natur, er roedd angen i fi yn fy swyddi blaenorol hefyd gynnal perthynas dda gyda phob plaid, ac yn sicr gyda Gweinidogion er mwyn denu mwy o gyllid a buddsoddiad a sicrhau Gweinidogion bod y sefydliadau rôn i'n gyfrifol amdanyn nhw yn gwneud gwaith da, a'n bod ni'n cadw'n gair o ran delifro.