English: In terms of our membership, I conducted some informal research in the context of this inquiry, and over half of the production companies that are members had made an application for different types of grant. One member made an application for upgrading technical equipment, and found the process easy and swift. A number of members that are established companies for a number of years used to have assistance to go to markets. This goes back to what Mr Hamilton was saying about adding that business element to film festivals, and I think that another witness has mentioned there was assistance available to go to these markets to sell ideas, intellectual property, but that has come to an end. Many of the smaller companies - . Over 60 per cent of TAC's members are small businesses, and they have found that that has been a barrier to them. But then on the other hand, in thinking about making an application - we've been talking here about different funds - the transparency and the accessibility isn't clear to them. Many of them wouldn't know where to start. They admit they could of course be researching into this, but when you do go and look, it's very confusing to know where to go to develop this, especially if you're not looking on a big scale. If you're looking at a contribution towards a production where you have, say, 10 per cent that you still need to find, and that you have interest from a distributer or a broadcaster or other partners but a percentage of that is short, would it be a more effective use of resources to create a resource where you could say, 'I am short in this percentage; you'll have it back' - whatever sort of priority that you apply to that in order to have a deal, and then there is a production? The Government doesn't have to invest hundreds of thousands, but that production happens where perhaps it wouldn't have otherwise. So, perhaps there is a way of looking at that kind of partnership that's less of a risk with public money but also moves the sector and the productions forward.
Welsh: O ran yr aelodaeth, mi wnes i gynnal ymchwil anffurfiol yng nghyd-destun yr archwiliad yma, ac roedd dros hanner y cwmnïau cynhyrchu sydd yn aelodau, dros y blynyddoedd, wedi gwneud cais am wahanol fathau o grantiau. Roedd un aelod wedi gwneud cais am uwchraddio offer technegol, ac wedi cael llwyddiant, ac wedi cael y broses yn un rhwydd ac yn un eithaf cyflym. Roedd nifer o aelodau sy'n gwmnïau sefydlog ers blynyddoedd maith yn arfer cael cymorth i fynd i farchnadoedd. Nawr, mae hwn yn mynd yn ôl i beth oedd Mr Hamilton yn ei ddweud ynglŷn ag ychwanegu'r elfen fusnes at wyliau ffilm, ac mi oedd - ac rydw i'n meddwl bod tyst arall wedi sôn am hyn - cymorth ar gael i fynd i farchnadoedd i werthu syniadau, eiddo deallusol, i ffeindio cyd-gynyrchiadau ac yn y blaen, ond mae hynny wedi dirwyn i ben. Mae llawer o'r cwmnïau llai - . Mae dros 60 y cant o aelodau TAC yn fusnesau bach, ac maen nhw wedi ffeindio bod hynny wedi bod yn rhwystr iddyn nhw. Ond wedyn, ar y llaw arall, maen nhw, wrth feddwl gwneud cais - achos ein bod ni wedi bod yn sôn am y wahanol gronfeydd yn fan hyn - nid yw'r hygyrchedd a'r tryloywder yn amlwg iddyn nhw. Ni fyddai llawer ohonyn nhw ddim yn gwybod ble i ddechrau. Maen nhw'n cyfaddef mi allen nhw, wrth gwrs, fod yn ymchwilio, ond pan ydych chi'n mynd i chwilio, mae'n ddryslyd ble i fynd i'ch rhoi chi ar ben ffordd, yn enwedig os nad ydych chi'n sôn am raddfa fawr. Os ydych chi'n sôn am, efallai, edrych ar gyfraniad at gynhyrchiad lle mae gennych chi, dywedwch, 10 y cant dal i'w ffeindio, a bod gennych chi ddiddordeb gan ddarlledwr neu ddosbarthwr a phartneriaid eraill ond bod canran ohono fe'n brin, a fyddai'n ddefnydd mwy effeithiol o'r adnoddau i greu adnodd lle allwch chi ddweud 'Rydw i hyn yn brin; fe gewch chi fe yn ôl' - hynny yw, ym mha bynnag flaenoriaeth y byddech chi'n gwneud y deal, ac wedyn dyna gynhyrchiad? Nid oes rhaid i'r Llywodraeth fuddsoddi cannoedd o filoedd, ond mae'r cynhyrchiad yna'n digwydd lle, efallai, na fuasai fe wedi. So, efallai bod yna ffordd o edrych ar y math yna o bartneriaeth, sy'n llai o risg gydag arian cyhoeddus ond hefyd sy'n symud y sector a'r cynyrchiadau yn eu blaen.