I have been hoping to do better next year for most of my life, but I am very pleased that we have struck a note of agreement late on this Tuesday afternoon as we discuss this report. I do welcome and am grateful to all Members who have contributed to this debate.

As we’ve seen on a number of occasions in the past, this debate has come to an agreement on the principle but has also shown us a clear long-term vision. It’s not often that you see Sian Gwenllian asking the Government to change gear, but Jeremy Miles insisting on revolution. I do think that it is important that we do comply with the ambitions of them both in different ways. I tend to agree with another important contribution, made by Suzy Davies, when she sought a simplified process for the standards. I think it is important that the promotion of the Welsh language and the promotion of the use of the Welsh language is something that should happen naturally, and should happen without some of the bureaucracy that we may have created through the current Measure. That’s one of the things that I will be considering when we come to look at what sort of legislation we will need.

In concluding this afternoon’s debate, I will say this: I agree with Sian Gwenllian’s comments on education, Welsh-medium education and post-16 education, as well as how we plan our workforce in order to deliver and provide the kind of services that we want to see in the future. That, of course, is the purpose of having a long-term strategy. It is not sufficient and it isn’t possible to plan the future workforce in two years or in five years. We have to look at this in the long term and look at what we can do for the future. That is the purpose of the debate that we have tried to hold and have tried to lead over the past few months, in order to create a strategy that will assist us in creating 1 million Welsh speakers and people who use the Welsh language over the coming years.

And when Jeremy Miles mentions that the report looks at this through the users’ eyes, that is crucially important, because each and every one of us here who speak and use the Welsh language are users of Welsh language services wherever we are and wherever we live, and we know that there are barriers to using our own language in accessing public services that we want to see in various parts of Wales. I accept the points that have been made that the Welsh Government has to ensure that it responds to its responsibilities, too, and there is a role for the UK Government. Very often, we think that because we have this institution here and other national institutions in Wales, that the UK Government has no responsibilities at all in terms of the Welsh language. I happen to think that it’s important that the UK Government and Ministers in Westminster take their responsibilities for the Welsh language seriously. And I think it’s important that that should be recognised.

In concluding, I just want to say this: there is consensus here and I do hope that it is a living consensus. I accept what Neil Hamilton has said in terms of what we must do for the future, but I also accept his comments on the kind of commitment that he is willing to make and his party’s willing to make in order to secure the future of the Welsh language as our national language. I say this: it is important that the consensus that we have is a living consensus, a consensus that is willing to challenge and which will drive this vision forward. And I hope that if we achieve that, we will have achieved something very special and something that is historic for Wales and for Wales’s future. Thank you very much.