I’m very pleased that we now have a strategy that we can give due attention to through the consultation, to strengthen it and to build on what we have before us, by including the experiences of those people who genuinely know what needs to be done, namely the families of those who have dementia. I know that the majority of us here in the Chamber have heard plenty of heartbreaking stories of people who feel that they failed to access the care that they feel should be a fundamental right for someone with dementia: the woman who had to stay on a ward in a hospital for months with a relatively simple infection because there was a failure to put an appropriate package of care in place in her community; the carers who can’t arrange care for even a short period of time to have a break; those who feel that the kind of day care that’s vital for them isn’t available. It’s the voices of those people, the families and those who have dementia themselves, that I want to hear coming through in the final strategy, following this consultation. I’m sure that the Cabinet Secretary would agree with that.

I only had five questions. Two have already been asked by Angela Burns, so I’ll ask them as rhetorical questions, even though we know what the Cabinet Secretary has in mind in that regard. It’s important to have a balance between being ambitious and being realistic, but I will ask whether this 3 per cent increase in diagnosis on an annual basis is something that the Cabinet Secretary genuinely feels couldn’t be improved upon, because that will only take us, in five years, to the situation where Northern Ireland is at present.

The other rhetorical question is how to measure success, ultimately, because it’s the action that’s important here, the effect that this strategy will have on people the length and breadth of Wales. Is the Cabinet Secretary clear in his mind that he will be able to look back and say, ‘Yes, this has worked’ or ‘This hasn’t worked’?

Three questions to which we may receive specific answers: is there an intention to develop further the preventative side, to invest genuinely in opportunities, for example, to exercise to delay or reduce dementia symptoms, and not just to draw attention and raise awareness of the kind that the Cabinet Secretary mentioned a few minutes ago? In terms of diagnosis in the Welsh language, as the Alzheimer’s Society has said, I very much welcome the plan and the intention to improve things somehow, but when will we have, from the Government as well as from others, as part of the consultation, more detail on what is being considered here?

Finally, the rural aspect of dementia care. Does the Cabinet Secretary expect that this final strategy on dementia will give us a fuller picture and clearer picture of the specific issues that stem from the needs of dementia care in rural Wales? As I say, I welcome the fact that we do now have this draft strategy to work from; the challenge now is that we would have a final strategy that is going to be able to achieve these very warm words on which we can all agree to make Wales a genuinely dementia-friendly nation.