Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:34 pm on 14 November 2017.
May I add my congratulations to the Minister on taking her new role? I can assure Neil Hamilton not to worry overly about the void that there is to fill. Eluned Morgan is a substantial figure in her own right, so I think we can be confident in her ability to take on this agenda with aplomb. I welcome that this is a positive report from the Welsh Language Commissioner. There has, as she notes, been a shift in public debate, and, as she herself says, that direction has been set to a great extent by the Welsh Government's target of 1 million Welsh speakers. And that very declaration of intent over the long term in itself has had a catalysing impact. I think that is something that we should all welcome, while, of course, recognising the nature of the challenge before us. This is, as we've discussed before, perhaps the most radical cultural policy in modern times, and we should be under no illusion about the challenges ahead of us, but it's one that we must all approach with relish.