Diolch, Lywydd, a diolch am hynny hefyd, Bethan.

I hope, actually, that the Assembly is rather inspired by the way that this committee is attempting to engage more widely, and by that I mean engagement being a two-way process. It’s one of those jargon words we kind of take for granted, actually, but this isn’t just about this committee trying to seek information or ideas from outside this building, but, actually, allowing the people of Wales to influence what the agenda is in this place as well.

One of the observations I think all of us might have made of the last Assembly—and I hope this doesn’t sound too critical—but certainly, working on committees, we tended to see the same people responding to the consultations, the same people coming in to give us evidence, and sometimes that evidence was verging on the predictable. So, I think this is a big step forward, and this is why I’m saying I hope it inspires other committees to look at the way this committee is doing its work, so that, actually, we can hear from people we don’t usually hear from. And I suppose this is one of my more difficult questions for you, Bethan, on the back of this statement: who else are we hoping to engage, and is this a sort of general attempt to speak to absolutely everybody in Wales, or is this committee going to work through a series of priorities of new groups, and perhaps new geographical areas of Wales that don’t necessarily traditionally take part in consultations?

I welcome the focus that you gave in your presentation now on the work we’ll be doing on media. Obviously, in the short to medium term, it’s inevitable that we’ll be talking quite a lot about the media, what with S4C’s review on the horizon. I hope, of course, that we will continue, as an Assembly, to talk about the role of the media in the scrutiny of this place itself. One of our roles as the committee, of course, is to scrutinise the Government; we can’t just leave that to the media. And perhaps this is as pertinent a time to mention that today’s statement on Historic Wales would have been introduced as an oral statement yesterday rather than today, because it might have given us a chance to scrutinise you, Cabinet Secretary, rather than me having to ask Bethan now. Could we please ask our committee to scrutinise the Cabinet Secretary on simple matters like whether bringing together commercial functions will actually help secure new sources of income for Cadw and the national museum, and why the merger of Cadw and the National Museum is even on the table? I’m sure the Government is still bearing the scars of the fight in the last Assembly regarding the royal commission.

So, my question on the back of that is: with so many institutions within the purview of this committee either part of Government or, even if they’re at arm’s length, heavily funded by Government, I wonder if you’d support me in hoping that we might be able to have some of these bodies themselves come before our committee rather than having to filter questions through a Minister. I don’t know if you can give me an answer to that one today, but I’d certainly love you to say ‘Yes’.

Then, just finally, obviously we talk about art, heritage and culture a lot within our committee, I’m wondering how the committee is going to work with other committees on cross-cutting issues. Clearly, we’re talking about the arts and its use in, perhaps, mental health or heritage’s regeneration. I don’t really want that to fall off our longer term five-year agenda. Thank you.