I have to be honest with you, First Minister, I stand here today not very confident of that, and I’ll tell you why: since your own Government interventions and special measures were placed on Betsi Cadwaldr university health board two years ago, 227 per cent more patients are waiting over 12 hours in A&E and 194 complaints came in last year—this is actually 30 per cent of the total of all complaints in Wales. We have a 7,000 per cent increase in patients now waiting for over 36 weeks for oral surgery, and a 5,000 per cent increase for orthopaedics and trauma.

I have repeatedly asked questions of you here, and in writing, and of your Cabinet Secretary, on behalf of many of my constituents who you are failing and who are struggling as a result—many in pain—of these failings. I’ve asked you for detail as to how you are monitoring performance outcomes as part of your special measures. Will you tell me at what point you believe that your Government interventions, at a cost already of over £10 million, have actually resulted in any material improvement? At what stage do you intend to actually pull the process of special measures, believing that your interventions have worked, that they’ve been successful, that we have a relevant and necessary—