I’m grateful for those remarks, and if I might start where you finished, I think the measure of our success will be the silence in the media, in many ways. I hope that we will be able to move forward and deliver a policy that is done not through confrontation and not through a steamroller, but through persuasion, through support, through promotion and through conversation with people. I sense a great well of goodwill towards the Welsh language across all the different communities of Wales. I represent a community and communities where very little Welsh is spoken in Blaenau Gwent. But I know that there are very many parents who wish that they could speak the language themselves and who want their children to either speak the language, or have a familiarity with the language.

What we, I hope, will be able to do as a Government, is to work with that goodwill to ensure that people feel comfortable with what we are proposing and to work with the grain of communities across the country. And that means that our expectations in different places will be different and our anticipations and our ambitions will be different in different parts of the country. But what, I hope, will not be different is our determination to create the bilingual country that you have described. And in doing so, I hope that these plans will put in place both the option to have Welsh-medium education across the face of Wales and to ensure that people feel able and comfortable to take that option for their children, and that that option is available with all the resources and facilities that were described earlier by Darren Millar.

So, we’re working, I hope, in a way that is constructive, which puts common sense ahead of ideology and ensures that people across Wales will have the option of Welsh-medium education for their children without the difficulties of having to transport their children many, many miles to receive that education, whilst worrying about the sort of education that they will receive—to ensure that Welsh-medium education is seen to be a choice that is made by parents increasingly in the future. I would certainly hope that the plans that we can put in place will put in place a structure that will see many, many more young people being able to learn Welsh, leaving school fluent in Welsh and being confident about using their Welsh throughout their lives.

The points that you made about Mudiad Meithrin and Rhieni dros Addysg Gymraeg are points that I accept. The points about nursery and reception classes in education are points that I accept, and the issues you’ve raised about measuring demand, which was raised also by Llyr Gruffydd, are points that I accept. So, I hope that, in taking forward this policy, we will be able to do so together with communities across Wales, and not against communities throughout Wales.