The next item on our agenda is the 90-second statements. Ann Jones.

Diolch, Llywydd. In just an hour’s time, the Wales women’s football team will walk out onto the pitch to play a friendly against Northern Ireland. As part of that squad, Jess Fishlock will become the first Welsh footballer to receive 100 caps, marking a most memorable milestone for this talented midfielder. No player, man or woman, has ever played a century of games for Wales, and I’m sure it’ll be a special occasion for her, and one, I think, we should recognise here at the Assembly.

Jess made her Wales debut against Switzerland back in 2006. Recently turning 30, Jess has no plans to bring her international career to a close, and retains a burning ambition to represent her country at the finals of a major tournament. I’m sure that the team will do Jess proud today and Jess will play her part, and I hope that Jess can realise her ambitions to lead the Wales women’s football team into a major tournament. I’m sure we wish her well on this remarkable achievement. Diolch.

Simon Thomas.

Thank you, Llywydd. Henry Richard was born in Tregaron on 3 April in 1812. He was an Independent minister and was a prominent figure in the Welsh Liberal movement. In 1868, he was elected Member of Parliament for the constituency of Merthyr and he served there for 20 years. The constituency, at that time, included the town of my birth, Aberdare.

Henry Richard is mainly remembered as a promoter of the cause of peace and arbitration and as secretary of the peace society for 40 years. His main success was working to ensure a declaration in the Paris treaty, which brought the Crimean war to an end, declaring for the first time internationally that arbitration was available instead of war. He was therefore called the apostle of peace.

There is now a statue in his memory on the square in Tregaron, and a new, all-age school is named after him in the area. This is his statement on the statue:

I have always been mindful of three things:—not to forget the language of my country; and the people and cause of my country; and to neglect no opportunity of defending the character and promoting the interests of my country. My hope for the abatement of the war system lies in permanent conviction of the people, rather than the policies of cabinets or the discussions of parliaments.’

We should bear this in mind in our own Senedd today.

Neil McEvoy.

Diolch, Llywydd. Three and a half thousand people have now signed the petition to this Assembly calling for us to protect live music venues in Wales. That petition was started by the conductor and composer, Richard Vaughan. The problem is that there are two proposals to develop in Wales’s most famous live music street, Womanby Street, and the developments pose a threat to the music venues because of the weak planning laws we have in Wales. In England, there is the agent of change principle, which means that new developments need to accommodate existing live music venues and not the other way around. It’s time to think about what we can do, and people from all political parties need to stand up and protect the live music venues in Wales. The proposals for Womanby Street should be rejected unless there are cast-iron guarantees that the existing live music premises will not be affected. Our Senedd needs to listen to the thousands of people who have taken the time to sign the petition, because we need a change in planning law, and I call upon everybody present to ensure that we change the law here in Wales and protect our live music venues. Diolch.