I’ll make a short contribution. I want to do that because I feel genuinely passionate about this particular issue. I like cars. I have always liked cars. I used to go to the motor shows when I was a young boy with my parents. I consider cars to be works of art. One can look at a car from any period and learn a lot about that period from the car in front of you. Yes, the cars on our roads in Wales in the future will be a sign of what the fashions and ways of life in Wales will be in future.

My interest in cars is in the way that they drive and the way that they’re driven, which has also followed fashion and trends globally. We know already that driving has changed over the years as the aspirations and expectations of people have changed. But people’s practices with regard to their choice of car can be changed as well, and there are a number of influences that can come to bear here: there are environmental concerns, and that is becoming clearer; the car’s performance; and also the cost.

In Wales now, we’re perhaps at the beginning of this next major change with regard to the way that cars are driven, which is the change to electric cars, but it’s a gradual change and I don’t see the genuine incentive there to accelerate that change. Point 1 in the motion notes the speed of the revolution, but the Government’s strategy and public policy don’t come anywhere near catching up with the technological revolution that there’s been.

I genuinely believe that there’s an opportunity here in Wales to make a name for ourselves in this area and by doing that to accelerate and drive change and the practices of users and consumers in Wales. So, why don’t we change planning rules for new homes to make it compulsory to set those charging points outside them? Where’s the strategy across the public sector to install those charging points? Do we have to have charging points in surgeries or twenty-first century schools? We need to take that action. Where are the regulations to make it compulsory for the fleet of public sector vehicles in councils and the NHS to be zero-carbon-emission vehicles or electric vehicles? One manager in the NHS in my constituency has been trying to ensure that district nurses and school nurses can have electric vehicles for their visits, but has failed because the contract that the NHS had was with a company that couldn’t provide electric vehicles. This is a change that could be made through policy change.

What about a commercial network that’s marketed with regard to its tourist potential, to ensure that when you’re coming to Wales your hotels and attractions will be places where you can charge your car? I don’t know if the tactic is to let things happen organically, leaving things to chance, but you only have to look at Tesla maps of charging points across Europe to see that Wales is being left behind here. I’m talking about swift charging points; they’re only available on the M4 and the A55. I genuinely want to have an electric car, but I can’t overcome the barriers yet in a way that makes sense economically at present.

Fel rhywun sy’n ddiedifar am fy hoffter o’r car modur am ei rinweddau artistig a mecanyddol a thechnolegol—a chyn i mi gael fy meirniadu, rwyf mor awyddus â neb i sicrhau bod cynifer o bobl â phosibl yn gadael eu ceir modur ar ôl ac yn defnyddio trafnidiaeth gyhoeddus. Ond fel rhywun sy’n hoff o geir, rwyf am i Gymru groesawu a chyflymu chwyldro’r cerbyd trydan, a normaleiddio cerbydau trydan. Felly, gadewch inni geisio datblygu enw da i Gymru fel gwlad sy’n croesawu cerbydau trydan. A chan wybod nad yw buddsoddiad a newid diwylliant yn digwydd dros nos, rwy’n meddwl y gallai hyd yn oed datganiad o fwriad go iawn, datganiad o uchelgais i ddatblygu’r enw da hwnnw, fod yn ffordd dda o gael pethau i symud ar hyn.

Yn olaf, roeddwn yn trafod yn ddiweddar gyda rhywun brwdfrydig ynglŷn â cherbydau trydan yn fy etholaeth sydd, fel y mae’n digwydd, wedi gosod gwefrydd foltedd uchel yn ei fusnes yn Llangefni oherwydd prinder pwyntiau gwefru mewn mannau eraill. Dywedais, ‘Rwyf am i Gymru wneud mwy na dilyn eraill ar hyn.’ Ei ymateb: ‘Ar hyn o bryd, nid ydym hyd yn oed yn dilyn; rydym yn edrych ar ein traed ac yn troi yn ein hunfan’, ac mae’n rhaid inni symud ymlaen o hynny.

Thank you very much for taking part in this debate.

Rwy’n falch o fod wedi cael y cyfle hwn. Rwy’n ddiolchgar i’r rhai sydd wedi cyflwyno’r cynnig hwn heddiw, a chan lawn fwriadu’r gair mwys, gadewch i ni ddefnyddio’r ddadl hon i danio’r Llywodraeth i gyflwyno gweledigaeth gadarnhaol ar gyfer cerbydau trydan i Gymru.