I, too, very much welcome this statement today, allowing us to focus on these very important services that matter so much to people and their families across Wales. And like many others, I’m familiar with my local services in Newport, and the St David’s foundation, and I know that they have very impressively grown and expanded their services and presence, not just in Newport, but surrounding parts of Wales over many years, and do provide real commitment and quality of service.

I would like to raise a few matters with the Cabinet Secretary—first of all, specialist prescribing by pharmacists in hospices, and their role with community pharmacists, because I am familiar with the view that they can provide a great enhancement of end-of-life services, entirely in line with prudent healthcare, and entirely in line with allowing people to return to their homes in a timely manner. And high-quality prescribing I think is absolutely central to this area of health provision. So, I would like to ask the Cabinet Secretary what perhaps expanding role he sees for those specialist prescribing pharmacists in taking strategy and policy forward. Also, core funding for hospice services in the community—because, again, I guess many Members are familiar with the pressure that these services operate under, the expanding demand that, obviously, will accelerate with the ageing population that we will have, salary pressures within the services that they provide, nursing and otherwise, and, of course, some of the increasing role that these services will be fulfilling in the future. So, I would be interested in to what extent the delivery plan will prioritise addressing those core funding pressures, because, I think we haven’t seen an increase in that core funding for these services over quite a period of time.

Two other matters briefly, Dirprwy Lywydd—