I’m grateful to Darren Millar for his kind words. As ever, he’s roamed far and wide, using the statement as a starting point rather than as the purpose of this debate this afternoon. But, let me say this, Darren: there is a lack of ambition in some of those plans, I think you’ve absolutely right in that. The challenges that you’ve laid out in your questions, and the totality of your analysis, is a challenge I accept. I think you’ve outlined many of the key challenges that we have to overcome.

So, let me say this in responding to you: yes, we do need concerted action from both the Welsh Government and from local government. How do we do that? What we don’t do is point fingers and create screaming headlines where we go to war with local government and the rest of it. We don’t do that. What we do is we work together. We work together on the basis of mutual respect and our shared visions and our shared ambitions. That’s what’s at the heart of this.

This is about a mission, if you like. Kirsty Williams has talked about our national mission for education on a number of occasions. This is about a shared vision for the future. It’s Welsh Government and local government working together to deliver on that shared vision. I hope that Aled will be able to report by the early summer and that we will have the WESPs, the strategic plans, in place at that time to enable us to have that framework, if you like, going forward.

And, as we go forward, we will need to meet all of the challenges you’ve outlined, from workforce planning through to Welsh for adults and issues around the new curriculum. All of those are key challenges that I accept and that we do have to meet. The points that have been made about childcare provision are well made. We do need to ensure that the childcare offer that is being developed at the moment—. My colleague, the Minister for Communities and Children, is working on and leading the work on that. Let me say this to Darren: we meet regularly in order to discuss the Welsh language elements of that, together with the Cabinet Secretary for Education and the Minister for Skills and Science, to ensure that we do have that skilled workforce to enable us to meet that challenge. That’s certainly something, again, I accept.

The continuity of education post 16 is also something that I accept. The Member will be aware that Kirsty Williams made a statement at the Eisteddfod last year, setting up a working group with Delyth Evans. We expect that to report by the early summer or mid-summer of this year. That, I hope, will chart an outline, chart a way forward, for the future of post 16, especially the potential expansion of Welsh-medium education in the further education sector. I agree that is the sector that’s absolutely critical to creating the workforce that will enable us to deliver on our ambitions and our plans. And a coherent strategy, which you asked for, is absolutely essential to underpin all of these things.

But what we are debating today, Darren, is the strategic plans from local government. What these have to do is to create the vision that we all, I think—I hope—share for the future. That will lay the basis then. We will understand the numbers of teachers that we will require, we will understand the number of support workers that we will require, we will understand the sort of childcare provision that we will require, where we will need those people, the sorts of skills that we will need them to have, and how we take that forward, not just for 2017 to 2020, which we’re discussing today, but using the plans for 2017 to 2020 in order to build the foundation for the future.

So, I hope I’ve covered most of your questions there. Of course, Welsh for adults was covered by the budget agreement with Plaid Cymru, where we did provide additional funding for Welsh language courses through the national centre for teaching Welsh to adults. But the challenges you’ve laid out are a good way to perhaps describe the sort of challenges that we’ll have to meet as a consequence of these plans and this way of working.