I’d just like to endorse earlier comments made about how welcome this statement is today and the fact that you acknowledge now that your Government needed to do a u-turn on what was a fiasco during the past three years.

I would just respectfully disagree with you as regards the draft local government Bill, where you said you’d found much agreement. If you do recall, Cabinet Secretary, in committee, my colleague here, Mark Isherwood, and I were very much witness to the fact that it wasn’t met with much—there was more that they didn’t agree with than what they actually did agree with. Had it not been for the casting vote of the Chairman, on previous Bills to do with this, they wouldn’t have seen any light of day. I think, let’s be honest: there wasn’t any political consensus last time because it was a mess. I think we’re all now wanting to work with you positively, where we can agree, but I have to say that the model that you do present does concern me a little, when you talk about regional authorities, where the devil is in the detail, as to how much influence Plaid Cymru themselves have had on these plans going forward.