Thank you, Presiding Officer. It’s a pleasure to stand and respond to the First Minister in moving the debate. I formally move amendment 1 in the name of Paul Davies on the order paper today. It was only six days ago that we ourselves moved a motion about the programme for government, and obviously we spent some considerable time looking at that. The Government could only put up one backbencher to support their programme for government during that debate, so I hope they do a better job this afternoon, to be honest with you.

There are some pertinent questions I do think need to be put to the First Minister during this debate that might well then start to inspire confidence. Some of those questions were explored at length in our debate last week, straight after a bovine TB debate moved by backbenchers in this Chamber. It is worth noting that, in the programme for government, there is no indication as to exactly how the Government will progress its strategy on bovine TB. I appreciate the Cabinet Secretary will be bringing a statement forward, but as I understand it, the programme for government is there for members of the public, Members of this institution, vested-interest charities and anyone with an interest in the way Government delivers services to be able to benchmark its progress, or not, as the case may be.

I don’t dispute what the First Minister said, that obviously the people of Wales endorsed his party to be the largest party returned here after the May election, and that’s why it’s important that the programme for government can be a document where we can measure the commitments that you have made and, in particular, understand how you are going to deliver those commitments. My colleague David Melding has touched on the housing numbers that you do have within the programme for government, and exactly how those commitments will be delivered, given the 20,000 affordable houses that you’ve touched on in this. What is that doing, then, to move to the 12,000 or 12,500 units that need to be built on an annualised basis to create a sustainable house-building programme to actually meet the demand and need of the people of Wales? Again, if you look in the programme for government, there is no way of being able to make out how the Government is going to take that particular policy issue forward. So, I hope that the First Minister, in his response to us today, will give us some confidence, because that’s what our amendment is talking about: it’s talking about giving us confidence to understand exactly how the programme for government will be taken forward.

We don’t, as I say, dispute the right of the largest party to form that Government; we don’t dispute the right of that party to put the programme for government forward, but I have yet to find one single third party organisation that has actually commented in a favourable way on this programme for government in the particular sector that you will be actually working in. Only today, for example, Nick Ramsay from Monmouthshire was making the point in the business statement about the critical care centre in Cwmbran. I can well remember when this particular project was first mentioned when I came into the Assembly, back in 2007, but it has been on the starting blocks far longer than that, and there is still doubt about exactly how that particular part of the health infrastructure will be delivered for south-east Wales. Excuse the pun, but it’s a critical part of the health infrastructure for south-east Wales. So, again, given that it is so topical and it should sit within the programme for government as to how that will be delivered for south-east Wales, perhaps the First Minister will use his time in responding to the debate today to actually give us some certainty that that project will come through and actually, by 2021, that project might well be either well on its way to being finished, or actually finished. Can you give us a date? Five years?

It is important to remember, on the education targets that are contained within the programme for government, that students going into year 7 today, or this term, at the start of the academic year, will be sitting their O-Levels, GCSEs, call them what you will, in 2021. So, their entire education in secondary education will be governed by the Government that sits on these benches, and it is really important that we can have the confidence that the aspirations of the Cabinet Secretary for Education—and, indeed, the entire Government—to make those improvements in education will actually be delivered in this fifth Assembly, because some Members have been here before in the fourth and third Assemblies. And it’s not that anyone on the opposition benches wants to wish you ill on education, because, actually, we want to wish you well on education, but we do want those delivered, because children only get one turn around the block, and it is their life chances that are taken away from them if we don’t deliver, or, should I say, if your Government doesn’t deliver on education.

So, the amendment is merely seeking to give that confidence to the people of Wales and to us as politicians who will scrutinise you. It doesn’t take away the legitimacy that you do have to put the programme for government. But to table a 15-page document for five years’ worth of work is quite a damning indictment of a lack of ideas. Only last week, First Minister, you chaired your own committee—the external advisory committee for advising you on European matters—and I do point to page 14 of your own document where it does say, ‘We will work to ensure that membership of our democratic bodies better reflect the whole of society and improve equal representation on elected bodies and public sector boards.’ There was no black or ethnic minority candidate on that committee. There was only 28 per cent female representation, and there were precious few geographical representatives from north wales and other parts of Wales sitting on that committee. So, on that very basic point—on that very basic point—that you could have implemented, you couldn’t deliver that. How are you going to be able to deliver some of the more knotty issues that have existed in health, existed in education and existed in the economy? That’s why we need to be given the confidence that this programme for government will be different from previous programmes for government, and will deliver for the people of Wales.