Darren Millar: Thank you, Trefnydd, for your statement. Can I call for two statements from the Minister for Health and Social Services please? The first is a very much needed update on the citizen voice watchdog, and the implementation of the new role of that organisation. Many people in north Wales, as Members in this Chamber will know, have been very impressed with the work of the north Wales community...
Darren Millar: Deliberately different.
Darren Millar: Deliberately so.
Darren Millar: Will you take an intervention?
Darren Millar: I know. I just wanted to say how pleased I am to hear that you're going to do just that. Obviously, I've been disappointed that there's been resistance to taking on board the UN principles for older persons in recent years, and I do hope that your piece of legislation will encompass the rights-of-older-people legislation within it. Can you confirm that that will be the case? It's something...
Darren Millar: Will you take an intervention?
Darren Millar: Thank you for that. I've read the UK Government's consultation document on its reform of human rights and its need to modernise the human rights legislation here in the UK. I can't see anything that is going to strip rights away from people. We're going to remain a signatory of the UN convention on human rights, and it seems to me perfectly sensible to have a conversation with people to try...
Darren Millar: Will you take an intervention?
Darren Millar: Well, if he wants to talk about prospects for people, then we need to sort out our education system in Wales, which your Government is responsible for, and is the worst, unfortunately, in the United Kingdom. In terms of what the United Kingdom is doing to help people at the current time with the cost-of-living situation in our country, we know that the national living wage has risen to a...
Darren Millar: We know that universal credit taper rate—
Darren Millar: —has been reduced, to put another £1,000 in the pockets of the lowest paid, 2 million people across the UK.
Darren Millar: Fuel duty—
Darren Millar: —has been frozen for 12 years in a row.
Darren Millar: Do you regret—
Darren Millar: Do you regret the paltry pension increase that—
Darren Millar: —the former UK Labour Government gave to our pensioners, which didn't even pay for a packet of peanuts each year?
Darren Millar: I asked a question.
Darren Millar: Will you take an intervention?
Darren Millar: Of course, that wasn't the only thing that the UK Government did to support people with the cost-of-living situation. They also gave a £150 council tax discount to homes, albeit in England. You got a consequential. You could go 20 per cent further than that here in Wales because, of course, for every £1 that is spent on a devolved service in England, Wales has £1.20 to spend here. Why...
Darren Millar: I'm so sorry to make another intervention so soon, but I'd like say something about the community facilities programme. Can I commend the Welsh Government for that programme? It's seen significant investment in many community facilities in my own patch, including places of worship, which have been adapted and are now the hubs of their community, as they always have been, but now with much...