Well, that’s a great question, and may I thank Mike for asking the question in Welsh?

The basis of the target of 1 million Welsh speakers is data from the census. The 2011 census noted that 562,000 of the citizens of Wales identified themselves as Welsh speakers, but it is very difficult to know how you define yourself as a Welsh speaker. I've met people with good Welsh, but they don’t count themselves as Welsh speakers because they think that proper Welsh is what’s heard in the broadcast media and they think, 'Well, if that's Welsh, then my Welsh isn't good enough.' So, for me, there’s a task over the years to nurture people's confidence—people who haven’t got any kind of literary background and don’t even read in Welsh, but they are day-to-day Welsh speakers. We must ensure that they count themselves as Welsh speakers and define themselves as such in the census.