Thank you very much, Chair. I will keep my comments brief. Earlier in the Chamber, we discussed Plaid Cymru’s aim of training and recruiting and extra 1,000 doctors in Wales. I was extremely disappointed with the response of the Minister.

‘Mae hyn yn uchelgeisiol, ond nid yw’n gyraeddadwy’ were the Cabinet Secretary’s words. Now, we’re talking here of a 10-year programme. This is something that is necessary—I hope we can agree on that: that we need more doctors in Wales. It is something that is an ambition—it certainly is one of mine. Hopefully, that ambition could be shared across the Chamber by other Members. But it is also realistic, but it can only be realistic if we actually increase how many people retrain as doctors in Wales. What’s also disappointing, in listening to the Cabinet Secretary, is that medical schools in Wales are telling me that they’re confident that they could train so many more doctors in Wales over the next 10 years, and it is clear, I think, that there is a growing consensus within the medical world in Wales that Bangor can play its part in contributing these additional doctors.

I’m also disappointed on a number of levels today that the Government in its amendment has withdrawn any reference to the development of medical education in Bangor. I understand why you want to highlight what you see your successes in terms of medical recruitment over the last few years—I’ll give you that—but why withdraw the reference or delete the reference to Bangor from our motion today? As Sian has explained, achieving a full-blown, if you like, medical school that is self-sufficient in Bangor could take some years. We acknowledge that fully, but that has to be the ultimate aim, and we must move as a matter of urgency now towards having medical students embedded in a medical education department in Bangor. I will refer to Keele University, which has a medical school now, but started as part of the Manchester school of medicine. There are those kinds of partnership that we can put in place from next year on, working with Cardiff University and Swansea University, for example. This is necessary. We need the doctors, we need to develop the expertise in rural medicine, and we need to develop expertise in developing Welsh-medium medical education also. Therefore, on a number of levels, I need to see us moving towards a consensus in terms of the direction of travel here.

Nawr, fe orffennaf drwy gyfeirio at un neu ddau o bwyntiau a wnaeth Michelle Brown. A yw hyn yn datrys y broblem recriwtio a hyfforddi sydd gennym yng Nghymru? Mawredd annwyl, nac ydy. Nid yw’n ei ddatrys, ond gallai fod yn andros o gyfraniad at yr hyn rydym yn ceisio’i gyflawni. A Lee Waters, fel chi, rwyf wedi treulio gyrfa mewn cyfathrebu felly rwy’n cytuno’n llwyr fod ymgysylltu’n bwysig. Gallwch ymgysylltu cymaint ag y dymunwch. Gallwch anfon y bwrdd iechyd lleol a’r prif weithredwyr i dŷ pob claf yn unigol i esbonio bod yna broblem gyda’r feddygfa leol, ond oni bai bod gennych feddygon yn dod drwy’r system, byddwch bob amser yn wynebu’r broblem hon sydd gennym, sy’n arwain at gau meddygfeydd ym Mhorth Tywyn, ac ym Mhorthcawl ac mewn llawer o leoedd eraill y clywn amdanynt yng Nghymru. Felly, cefnogwch hyn, ac anelwch yn uchel. Gadewch i ni gael ysgol feddygol yma ym Mangor. Mae ar Gymru ei hangen. Mae ei hangen ar gleifion Cymru.