Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and I formally move the motion in the name of Paul Davies on the order paper today, which took a huge amount of thought process and literacy to put together, which simply states:

‘Believes that the Welsh Labour-led Government is failing the people of Wales.’

I understand the leader of the house is responding on behalf of the Government. We will not, unsurprisingly, be accepting the Plaid Cymru amendment that has been tagged onto our motion. That was a very difficult one to weigh up as well, and we spent a long time in group. But I do hope that Plaid Cymru do reflect, because, given that the language that has come from Plaid Cymru over recent days and weeks, there does seem to be an element of unhappiness with Plaid Cymru, and not necessarily getting the best of both worlds, as their leader stated at their conference, certainly seems to be the order of the day at the moment in their arrangements with the current Welsh Labour Government.

It would be a shame if the opposition parties couldn’t coalesce around this motion this afternoon to vote on what is before us. Because it is a fact the Welsh Labour Government won the election back last May. This motion isn’t trying to seek to deny that, and the Government came together and formed, obviously, after that election. But most Governments, when they come into being, have an energy about themselves, especially in the first year, the first 18 months, when they set a trail and blaze that trail to show that they have energy and they want to make the change and the reforms that are so desperately required, especially in the environment that we find ourselves in today and as we go forward in the years ahead.

It is interesting, watching the Government, how it does work over the last couple of months—or not, as the case may be. There is the issue over whether you can hold collective responsibility of the Government. It is interesting to see the Cabinet Secretary for Education, who’s just walked in now. It is interesting to reflect on the one major European vote that was held some three weeks ago, where the education Secretary was unable to support the Government line in opposing the Plaid Cymru amendment that was tabled that day. I think most people would find that rather bizarre, to say the least, when you think of collective responsibility. Then we saw, over the weekend, the Lib Dems conference where, outside of this Chamber, you were going to be opposing the Government’s intention to legislate on the right to buy. Yet, as I understand it, the Cabinet Secretary has indicated that she will be exercising collective responsibility and voting to outlaw the right to buy here in Wales, which I’ll deal with later on in my speech.

I think that that’s a real shame, that, looking at these early weeks and early months, the Government has had so much difficulty in trying to co-ordinate itself, and, in particular, with Plaid Cymru. They say they have the best of both worlds, but, just before Christmas, we had the spectacle of Adam Price, who’s left the Chamber, throwing his papers in the air in complete despair after we’d just had the economy Secretary making his leadership speech—or, sorry, his speech at Cardiff Airport about economic infrastructure developments—when they hadn’t been consulted at all on what was in that speech. That really does pose the question: exactly how is this Government working, and exactly how are they going to deal with some of the real challenges that need serious thought and positive answers coming from the Government of the day? Regrettably, we just don’t see that happening and we don’t see it coming from the Government that was formed after May.

This wonderful document that was put together that outlines five years’ worth of work—five years. I’ve been doing my best to try and think what on earth I can do with it: it’s not even wide enough to prop up or hold a door shut or open a door, whichever way you wanted to use it. I’m still trying to think of ideas for what can be done with it, although it may be, as we have the Record of Proceedings, it most probably isn’t the best place to suggest what to do with this document. Because it is so broad in nature that, really, it doesn’t justify being called a programme for government at all, in fairness. For five years’ worth of work, we get 15 pages’ worth of—well, nothing, if I’m honest with you. I do hope that the leader of the house will actually be more positive in her response and actually offer us some solutions that this document clearly doesn’t offer us in—