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<p>I will make my contribution in Welsh. We responded to the consultation in 2023, and quite a lot has happened, although things have also been static in many work areas. I think one of the main things, clearly, is the joint statement by the Welsh and Irish Governments, and we see that this does provide a more strategic opportunity, and we look forward to working on the new action plan to go with it in the new year. That will be an opportunity for culture and the arts to be looking more carefully at how we can implement that. We had a meeting in January with the Welsh Government's office in Dublin, where we had an opportunity to discuss an outline of the statement. But we do have some questions as to how this will be funded.</p>
<p>In November, we were with the National Library of Wales and Amgueddfa Cymru at a conference held by the Irish Government and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport for national institutions from Ireland and the UK. And that followed the first UK-Ireland summit in March 2025 and the agreement on the 2030 statement between the UK and Ireland. As a result of this, the Irish Government does fund the Ireland-UK culture fund for their national institutions to lead on and to work with national institutions in the four nations of the UK. The closing date is 8 January.</p>
<p>In terms of an update on the ‘Culture shock’ report, we continue to work on Arts Infopoint UK. This is a collaboration between the four nations, and we also acknowledge that there are a number of questions and work to do because of the common travel area with Ireland. And we have been discussing broadly the idea of setting up a joint desk with Ireland, or that Ireland should do that.</p>
<p>We have also been invited to join a sub-group, the domestic advisory group on mobility, which is the civil forum held between the UK and the European Union to discuss things around the trade agreement. We participated in a recent visit and met with the Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds where, we raised issues around Creative Europe, along with ongoing issues around the trade and co-operation agreement.</p>
<p>We have also been quite busy in trying to reset the cultural relationship, not only between ourselves and the EU, but also with Ireland. The culture and media forum between the EU and the UK—we met with them last week, and we have expressed our support for their recommendations. Next week, we’ll be meeting the cultural exchange coalition, which has been set up by UK Music.</p>
<p>In terms of an update on artistic activity with Ireland, I will pass on to Dafydd.</p>

<p>Can I just, particularly to you, Eluned—? The discussions&nbsp;you had with Nick Thomas-Symonds, obviously, go to the to the nub, I think, across the board of what we want to see change, and it reflects also the discussions that we had when we went to Brussels not so long ago. What was the outcome? Will you give a bit more detail about those discussions? Has there been any development on those discussions? What is the outcome of them, because, when we were in Brussels, it seemed that some of these issues, there was an awareness of them, but they were quite low down on the political agenda?</p>

<p>Shall I add as well that we have the inter-ministerial committee on UK-EU relations? So, that's been a really good opportunity for us to set out our priority areas: youth mobility, the sanitary and phytosanitary agreement and so on. And then I also have bilateral discussions with Nick Thomas-Symonds, in his negotiating role, ahead of the meetings that he goes into, which have been really useful in terms of setting out what he anticipates might come forward in those meetings, what the positions are, what the Welsh Government's response is to those positions and so on. So, I think that his engagement has been exemplary on a personal, inter-ministerial basis.</p>