Well, I thank the Counsel General for confirming the Welsh Government’s position, and I’m sure, like me, he has frequent, and I mean weekly, if not daily, contact with constituents who are very concerned, either that they themselves are EU citizens, or, particularly—in the cases I deal with—that their parents are. They are Welsh citizens, with parents who came sometime in the past, from Poland, or Germany, or whatever, and have not needed to regularise their citizenship, because they simply live here, within the European Union.

I deprecate completely the way the UK Government has used these citizens—our citizens, the people who vote for us here, and have the right to vote for us as Assembly Members—in this way, as a bargaining chip. They need to be made to feel welcome in Wales, and need a clear message from the Welsh Government, at least, that their role in our Welsh public services, and their role as Welsh citizens, is treasured and enhanced here. What further work can the Welsh Government do, from a legal perspective, in particular, and with his work, in ensuring that everyone who lives in Wales is respected as a citizen, no matter where they come from, and that particular rights of EU citizens, especially, can be enshrined in the way that we work as an Assembly, and he as a representative of Welsh Government?