The next item is the 90-second statements and the first this week is from Angela Burns.

Thank you, Presiding Officer. There was a day in February 2015 when my husband was told to expect the worst, and my devastated family put their lives on hold. I had sepsis and the battle to beat the bug wasn’t going well. Who knew—not I—that a cough could open the door to a ruthless and determined enemy intent on destruction? Today we launched the cross-party group on sepsis to a packed room of survivors, Assembly Members, clinicians and the bereaved. The aims of the group are threefold: firstly, to raise the profile of sepsis—it kills more people than lung cancer; secondly, to encourage greater prevention and ensure that there’s a programme of support to help those who are living with the consequences of the disease, such as Jayne Carpenter, a nurse from the Royal Gwent, who lost both of her legs, an arm and four fingers as a result of sepsis; and thirdly, to achieve a clear sepsis pathways and an increase in public awareness. Not everyone is lucky enough to talk about their sepsis story. A third of us with sepsis die, a third suffer consequences like Jayne and a third walk away relatively unscathed, but no-one escapes scot free. Please help us to change that. This is a cross-party group that is aiming for its own extinction, and with your help, we can make that difference.

Russell George.

This weekend, celebrations will take place to mark the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of Wales’s most famous musicians, John Roberts, Harpist of Wales or ‘Telynor Cymru’. His life and works will be marked with two days of performances, talks and events exploring his life and how he and his family, who lived in Newtown, became one of Wales’s best known musical acts of their day. The celebrations are part of the Gregynog Festival taking place at Gregynog Hall. Born to a Romani mother and a Welsh father in north Wales, Roberts lived in Frolic Street in Newtown for much of his life and is known to have performed at Gregynog Hall during the mid-nineteenth century. He and his family performed at the Bear Hotel in Newtown and also performed on nine triple harps in front of Queen Victoria whilst she was visiting north Wales. In 1848, he won the world harp competition at Abergavenny, as well as the harp prize at the National Eisteddfod in Cardiff in the same year. Roberts put Newtown firmly on the musical map and remains a significant figure within Welsh culture. He was one of the most famous musicians in Victorian Wales and I’m pleased to be able to mark his two-hundredth birthday in the Senedd today.

Rhun ap Iorwerth.

I’ve always fancied myself on the back of a motorbike and I had an opportunity a few days ago. Unfortunately, it wasn’t moving at the time—I haven’t passed a motorcycle test. But, I was in Holyhead outside Ysbyty Penrhos Stanley on the back of a wonderful motorbike called Elsa II, to draw attention to the launch of the new blood bike service in north-west Wales. For those of you who don’t know, Blood Bikes Wales is a charity that has, for many years, offered a very valuable delivery service for the NHS across Wales. But there was one part of the jigsaw missing: the north-west of Wales was the only part of the country where this service was not available. Blood Bikes Wales is a group of volunteer bikers and they raise the funds needed to run the service. They will carry all sorts of products between hospitals, from blood and plasma to samples or medical documents, and they do so as a matter of urgency and free of charge. They save a fortune to the NHS, which would otherwise, outside the hours of its transportation staff, have to employ taxis or other couriers to provide this very service, or they may even have to use the police or ambulance services.

Felly, ar ran pobl Ynys Môn a gogledd-orllewin Cymru, a gaf fi ddiolch i’r beicwyr brwdfrydig am sicrhau y gallwn ni hefyd bellach, fel gweddill y wlad, elwa o’u caredigrwydd?

I thank all three Members.