Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and can I thank all the Members who’ve contributed to an excellent debate on our report this afternoon? I’d like to thank Darren Millar for his positive comments about the outcome of the inquiry, which are very much welcome. I also wholeheartedly endorse what he said about the importance of the youth parliament. I, too, was there today to receive the report from the campaign for the youth parliament. What I think is so important is that the reason these services are being deprioritised at a local level is because young people don’t have a voice, and that youth parliament will be absolutely critical in ensuring that they do have a voice. I hope that that is something that we can push outwards across Wales, so that they are reprioritised, those services.

Can I thank Llyr Gruffydd for his remarks? He’s absolutely right that this isn’t an issue that we’ve focused on before, and I’m very grateful that it was Llyr who made the suggestion to the committee that we undertake this inquiry. It was intended to be a snapshot inquiry, and it was certainly, for me, very much an eye-opener, and I do feel that we opened a bit of a Pandora’s box with it. So, I’m really pleased that we’ve done that. Now that we’ve looked at it, I would just like to assure everyone that I’ve got no intention of letting it go to the side again: we need to keep a focus on that. As you rightly say, this is a key preventative service. We talk a lot about prevention here, but in a whole range of ways, this is a key preventative service for young people and therefore is one that deserves our investment.

Can I thank Julie Morgan for her contribution and her support, as always, for universal services for young people, and also for highlighting the important role that youth work plays in mental health provision? Of course, the committee is also focusing on an ongoing basis on young people’s mental health issues, which is sometimes ironic given that these services are under pressure and these are services that can be preventative if introduced at the right time. So, thank you, Julie, for those comments too.

Michelle Brown highlighted a number of concerns, including issues around local authority funding. I hope that recommendation 8 will make a difference to that and, as Darren Millar has said, it’s not always about the amount of money, but what comes out from the expenditure of that money. And I really hope that, although that recommendation was accepted in principle, we will be able to go forward to develop a proper accountability framework, so, regardless of the amount that is being put in, we have got consistency of provision, and that that is the universal open-access measure that we want to see.

I’d like to thank Hefin David, the youngest member of the committee, for his contribution today, and also for his highlighting of the importance again of that recommendation 8. I’d also like to thank Hefin for highlighting the importance of Communities First funding in supporting youth services. I am very mindful that, should that programme end, then there will be a gap in youth service provision and we need to think very carefully about what we do about that going forward.

Dawn Bowden made very much a similar point, and I know that that’s been a particular concern in your constituency with the projects that you’ve referred to today, who are very worried about Communities First funding. Dawn also reminded us that youth services are life savers, and when I used that in the speech, it wasn’t a loose phrase to use. I genuinely do think that we need to remind ourselves that these services can be life savers, whether it’s mental health, early intervention, stopping young people going into crime—I don’t think that it’s over-egging the custard to say that they do that. I’d like to thank the Minister, again, for his response this afternoon, and also for indicating his willingness to continue to engage with the committee on this very important issue.

Just finally, to thank the members of the committee for their work on this inquiry, to thank the committee team who have also worked really hard behind the scenes to make everything happen and to produce what I think is an excellent report, and to thank, once again, the young people who have contributed, and the stakeholders, and to assure everybody that we aren’t planning on letting this issue go. We’re going to continue to monitor it, and try and drive forward some change. Thank you.