Well, I will come to that point in a moment. It is important to engage more young people in the civic life of our country, and I think a youth parliament would be one way of achieving that. It is an unfortunate truth that we are the only country in Europe not to have an independent youth forum of some kind. I know that we used to have one in Wales in the form of Funky Dragon, which has been mentioned many times in the course of this debate today. I would like to draw attention to Theo Davies-Lewis and the pamphlet that he wrote for ‘Gorwel’, which I will mention in the presence of David Melding here, and the discussions that he had with the First Minister, which, unfortunately, the First Minister was not convinced by. But I hope that, as a result of this debate today and the contributions that have been made by Labour Members in it, it will cause the Government to take a slightly different view.

My party does not support votes at 16, for the reasons admirably set out by Gareth Bennett in his speech earlier on. Also, I think that a youth parliament will be some kind of a halfway house between the two sides of this argument. Disraeli, in 1867, took a leap in the dark, as Lord Derby said, by extending the franchise to the industrial working classes, and then he said that he had to prepare the mind of the country and his party. One of the ways, I think, of preparing the mind of the country on the issue of reducing the voting age would be by introducing an institution of this kind into the picture.

Mohammad Asghar, in his contribution to this debate, did refer to the widespread public ignorance that there is about the powers of this Assembly and the devolved administration. It is amazing that nearly half the people of Wales have no idea that the Welsh Government is responsible for health policy, for example. I think that maybe we are all at fault in not playing our full part in ensuring that public understanding of Government and administration isn’t better informed than it is. Therefore, I think that one of the ways in which we could improve public knowledge and understanding of what we do here, and indeed inspire people to perform public service in the way that politicians do—. We get a very bad press on the whole, and there’s a huge amount of cynicism about politicians, which is largely unjustified. One of the ways in which we could encourage greater public confidence in our profession is by involving people in a formal way at an earlier stage. So, I very much hope that this motion will pass unanimously this afternoon, in the spirit of constructive consensus building that is exemplified in the person of Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas, of course, who has championed this for many years. So, on that basis, I commend this motion to the Assembly.