May I first of all thank everyone for their contributions? We as a party will also be supporting the second amendment. We won’t be supporting the first amendment—that’s the end of the consensus there immediately—for the very same reason that Suzy Davies outlined. We don’t disagree with what’s contained within the amendment, but it would delete the second point of the motion, and I don’t think that that’s necessary.

We were reminded that we’re talking about creating some 15,000 new Welsh speakers every year. That’s 1,000 rugby teams per year, with a language policy that is better than the Welsh Rugby Union’s, hopefully. But it will take vision and it will take clear targets, programmes and strategies—of course it will—and the Minister himself has acknowledged that the Welsh in education strategic plans, which are timely, of course, because the consultation is ongoing—. It’s encouraging to hear a clear message in this place this afternoon that the Government will not accept strategies that don’t make a sufficient contribution to this target of achieving a million speakers by 2050.

May I thank Mike Hedges, and may I congratulate both him and Neil McEvoy for making contributions through the medium of Welsh? But I do fear that Mike, perhaps, has let the cat out of the bag by asking whether we’re talking about a million Welsh speakers across the globe, or whether we are talking about a million Welsh speakers in Wales specifically. Well, if we reach a million Welsh speakers across the globe, that will be a positive step forward, without doubt. We will have gone even further with time, but let’s take one step at a time. I think the point Neil McEvoy made on workforce planning was entirely crucial, and also the economic contribution that the Welsh language makes. I know of a company developing software that has gained contracts across the globe for the very reason that they have developed software that can work bilingually, because it’s used in Wales. That, therefore, is portable in other parts of the world where developing software that operated only in one language is not sufficient, which would have meant that they wouldn’t have actually gained some of those contacts. So, there are examples out there and we need to promote those, because the economic argument is important and one which is central to this debate too.

I’m pleased to hear that the Minister states that he is serious and that the Government is serious—as serious as we are—in seeing this target attained. They will be judged through their actions, of course, and we as an opposition party, along with other parties in this place, will keep a close eye on the Government’s approach and how this area develops over ensuing months and years. But as I said at the outset, we will expect—and the scale of the challenge will require this—the Government to take determined and courageous action. If you do that, I’m sure there will be more than a million Welsh people with you on this journey.