I agree we need to act on advice and the advice that’s given, but I do direct the Cabinet Secretary to the health committee’s report into this particular data-collection exercise that the health committee in the third Assembly undertook, and took extensive evidence from the Royal British Legion, from veterans and from families. The health committee did actually offer a route forward for the Government at that time, and I do believe—I think it was Edwina Hart who was the Minister who responded to that report—indicated a clear willingness to progress that agenda. So, I do hope that, obviously, we will not, at year 5 of this Assembly, be continuing to debate some of these points that really do find consensus around the Chamber, and I do hope that the Minister in his reply will be more forthcoming in acknowledging the support that can be given via those four initiatives that are contained in the motion.

I also do want to spend some of my contribution this afternoon reflecting on the commemorations that have been undertaken around the events of the first world war. Neil Hamilton, the leader of UKIP, and the leader of Plaid Cymru, and, indeed, the First Minister and the Presiding Officer, attended a very moving service last week at Mametz. To have sat there with the 800 plus, I would say, people who attended that service really was a huge privilege, to actually sit at an event that commemorated, I would suggest, an atrocity that happened, where young men were thrown forward time and time again in futile waves against machine guns to achieve so little, emphasised the bravery, the courage, of the individuals who were participating in the battle of the Somme, but actually the futility of some of the orders and directions that were coming down. It is most probably wrong, in some respects, as we stand here today, to try and measure ourselves against what the actions were 100 years ago, but, clearly, many, many families and many individuals and communities suffered a horrendous loss of life, and it is perfectly fitting and right that we do commemorate such events as Mametz, and we never ever forget the sacrifice that was made, not just in the first world war, but the second world war, and, indeed, the sacrifices of our armed services. Wales has always had a very noble tradition of providing recruits in all three sections of our armed services.

We do have to pay tribute to the role that—in modern engagement, very often it is humanitarian and peacekeeping roles that our armed forces undertake in many theatres across the whole of the world. Not just, obviously, in the European theatre, but across the world, their expertise is called for and is greatly received in humanitarian and peacekeeping missions. I do hope that this Cabinet Secretary will enlighten us as to some of the initiatives, via education and promotion, that the Government will engage with schools and youth organisations, so that, instead of just being an event on the calendar, many of these commemorative events can actually come to life and the next generation can feel an attachment and an affinity to support that memory and that legacy that so many people left.

But, above all, I do want to hear, importantly, from the Cabinet Secretary today what he’ll be doing, working with the Cabinet Secretary for health, in the support around mental health issues that will be available to veterans in our communities, wherever they might live. We cannot afford to have a postcode lottery. I’m very pleased that it was the Vale of Glamorgan Council that first started the process of the military covenant being adopted by local authorities. Councillor Janet Charles, at the time, was the lead member for that. It was a Conservative-led council that did that. I do believe that that covenant has been greatly attractive to many local authorities in the way that they bring forward the help and support that they offer in their local areas. But you have to link up what the local authorities are doing with what the local health board is doing, and indeed the initiatives of the Welsh Government. I do pay tribute to Darren Millar, to my side here, who has chaired the all-party group on the armed services here in the Assembly. That work, hopefully, greatly informs Members about what is undertaken in our name by our service personnel, wherever they might be serving.

So, I do hope that the Minister will reflect on the amendment that has been put down in the Government’s name today, and I do hope that he might just consider withdrawing that amendment and supporting the motion unamended, because I do think then we can really measure the context of the support the Government is giving to a valuable section of our community.