Minister, I think it’s very obviously the case—and I think all Members here would hopefully agree with this—that misunderstandings often occur and cause problems when we don’t have the level of integration that we might have in our communities, and we’re not effective enough in bringing different sections of the community together. Certainly, in my experience, having been born and brought up in Pill in Newport, a very multi-ethnic community, it adds a great deal to life experience, growing up in such a community, because there’s such a great variety of culture, of music, of dance, of food, and it’s really instructive and interesting to talk to other people in terms of their backgrounds, their family backgrounds and the parts of the world that they know a lot about. So, I believe it’s very enriching, and when people are brought together from different sections of the community, that is commonly their view, but perhaps not enough is done to try to achieve that integration and bring different parts of our society together.

When we do have effective ways of doing that, I think we should celebrate them and build on them. In that respect, I’d like to mention Maindee Festival in Newport, which, for a number of years, has done really good work in bringing different sections of the multi-ethnic Maindee community together. There are substantial Asian communities in Maindee, lots of new arrivals from the European Union, eastern Europe and beyond, West Indian communities, and many others. And, of course, that’s in addition to people from Ireland—and my own mother, like the relative that Darren Millar mentioned, came over to Newport from Ireland. So, very many people from different backgrounds come together, and the Maindee Festival really does allow that coming together to take place and that integration to happen.

So, I’d like to pay tribute to the organisers of the Maindee Festival. For many years now, they’ve built upon the initial event. There’s a parade every year, every summer, and a festival follows. It’s music, it’s dance, it’s food and drink, it’s art and culture generally, and it’s very, very successful. Of course, it doesn’t happen without a lot of work, and the work to organise the next year’s event really begins just after the festival ends, during the summer. So, I wonder whether Welsh Government might look at how they work not just with the Maindee Festival, but with similar organisations right across Wales that are organising these events, so that they can be built further and made even more effective. And I would like to invite the Minister to the Maindee Festival next summer in Newport. I’d be very pleased if he accepted that invitation in his contribution to this debate later.