The motion, Llywydd, that you’ve put forward proposes we should act in accordance with Standing Orders 17.2R and 17.2A, but what about Standing Order 17.2B? That states:

‘In tabling a motion under Standing Order 17.2A, the Business Committee must have regard to the need to ensure that the balance of chairs across committees reflects the political groups to which Members belong.’

If this motion passes today, that will not be the case. This group has 12 members, that group has 11 members. Yet they have two Chairs, and we have three. That’s a clear breach of Standing Order 17.2.

We also have a Business Committee that should be determining this motion, yet is the reality not that that Business Committee meeting was suspended so that the Plaid Cymru and the Labour representative could go outside the room and agree between themselves what the motion should be, and that decision was then adopted by Business Committee? We should apply our Standing Orders, we should apply them consistently, and if the reality is that Plaid Cymru and Labour will stitch up deals—not between themselves, according to their own proper business, as and when they may, but according to the Standing Orders of this Assembly, and breach those without regard to what the rules of this institution say, then how can you put forward that motion tomorrow, asserting that we should be considered the national parliament for Wales, when you behave in that manner?