, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence Session with the Office for the Internal Market
But you're looking at the impact of them, surely, on the market.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence Session with the Office for the Internal Market
I'm grateful to you for that. You mentioned common frameworks, and that's what I was going to come on to next. Can you look backwards and look forwards for me, please? To what extent have they achieved the objectives that were set for them? Some of us were…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence Session with the Office for the Internal Market
Yes, absolutely.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence Session with the Office for the Internal Market
Yes, that's why I used the word 'incremental'.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence Session with the Office for the Internal Market
And we've had that conversation about Welsh-language labelling in that way. I appreciate that. Another lesson that I'm drawing out—I found the annual report really fascinating actually, the most recent one—is that, for policy makers, perhaps the lesson is…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence Session with the Office for the Internal Market
I understand that.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence Session with the Office for the Internal Market
But also in answering an earlier question to Natasha, you indicated—. My anticipation was that, after the Windsor agreement, for example, you would see regulatory divergence between Northern Ireland and Great Britain because of the different regulatory…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence Session with the Office for the Internal Market
I'm fascinated by this conversation. This is a real case study, isn't it, into the interplay between policy and business regulation and the actual behaviour of businesses in the real world. What you seem to be finding in your annual reports and your analysis…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the National Library of Wales (1)
No-one questions—[Inaudible.]
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the National Library of Wales (1)
That's one member of staff.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the National Library of Wales (1)
But if you set up—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the National Library of Wales (1)
Well, that's not a lot, is it? It's not a lot of contribution.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the National Library of Wales (1)
Yes, yes. I'm talking about the Welsh Government's contribution to you, and it sounds to me, from the earlier response, that the library has basically employed a member of staff.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the National Library of Wales (1)
Yes, yes. But it's the contribution of the Welsh Government—that's what I'm talking about.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the National Library of Wales (1)
Following on from that question, there are two costs, aren't there? There are those soft costs that you invest in the project, and you're going to employ those staff anyway, so it isn't a hard cost, in a sense, it's a softer contribution from you. And…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the National Library of Wales (1)
How much is the Welsh Government contributing?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the National Library of Wales (1)
Asking the same question, probably.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the National Library of Wales (1)
Sorry, could I just—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the National Library of Wales (1)
—sori—chi ydy'r gronfa wybodaeth hanesyddol bwysicaf yn y wlad, i ryw raddau, ac felly mae gyda chi'r gallu i gyfrannu rhywbeth. Ac roeddech chi'n sôn am y diaspora yn yr achos yma, ond mae yna gyfraniad mwy cyfoethog y mae'n bosibl ei wneud, a buaswn i'n…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the National Library of Wales (1)
You don't have the capacity, but—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the National Library of Wales (1)
May I stop you there, Rhodri? Because I saw, I think, on social media, the work that you've been doing in North America, and I think that's fantastic, it's excellent—and I hope that you will keep in touch with the Welsh Government office in North America when…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the National Library of Wales (1)
Yes, I saw that, with the petition.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the National Library of Wales (1)
Yes. This is a conversation that I'd like to have for the rest of the day, but I'm aware of time. We have a financial crisis at the moment. We understand that, and you in several ways have described the impact that that has in terms of how you work and on the…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the National Library of Wales (1)
Ac mae cyfraniad Chwarae Teg yn un pwysig i'w gofnodi hefyd.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the National Library of Wales (1)
Thank you. I'm very pleased to hear that. I'd like to go back to that point that Ashok made there about the various programmes that the library runs, reaching out from Penglais into other communities. I have been enjoying the S4C programme, Cyfrinachau’r…
