5. Debate on the Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Report: 'Turn up the volume: an inquiry into the live music industry'

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:48 pm on 3 February 2021.

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Photo of Bethan Sayed Bethan Sayed Plaid Cymru 3:48, 3 February 2021

(Translated)

Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and I apologise for going over time. It's difficult to time these things. I would like to thank the Deputy Minister for that response and everyone who's contributed this afternoon. Unfortunately, I can't cover all of your comments, but everything you've said has been important in providing us with an overview of what's important for the future in terms of live music, whether that's in school through the curriculum, or on the ground in our communities, whether it relates to transport so that we can ensure that live music is taken closer to people—all of that's important in order to ensure that music can be something for everyone rather than just something for those people who can afford to access it.

I hear what the Deputy Minister says on an action plan for commercial music and it would be good to see that as a committee—if not this committee in this Senedd, then its successor committee—in the hope that culture and live music will be an integral part of the work of any future committee. I'm sure every Member of the Senedd misses going to see live music, misses going to gigs, and we have to think about those people who work in the sector and to help them to bring music alive again once this pandemic not perhaps has gone away altogether, but once the situation is improved, so that we can improve things for everyone in the sector.