So, we move to item 5, which is the 90-second statements. Simon Thomas.

Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Plastic and its impact on our environment is an issue of huge public interest now. In 1950, 1.5 million tonnes of plastics were produced across the world. It is now more than 320 million tonnes per annum, and half of all plastics produced since 1950 have been produced over the past decade alone.

Plastic waste is now responsible for some 60 per cent to 90 per cent of waste in our seas; a plastic bottle can last up to 450 years, and plastic waste is detrimental to as many as 100,000 sea species and a million sea birds every year. So, I'm pleased to congratulate the village of Aberporth on becoming a plastic-free community—the first of its kind in Wales. My thanks are to the whole village for coming together to seek alternative ways of providing for citizens and visitors without using unnecessary plastic. It varies from recyclable cups in cafes, using paper straws in the local pub and milk in glass bottle in the village shop. 

In this Assembly, we are discussing a tax on plastics, and I am pleased to have negotiated funding for the consideration of a deposit-return scheme. But the greatest change is to be seen in our communities. New Quay in Ceredigion has followed Aberporth, and around 200 people have been discussing the idea in Aberystwyth recently. I look forward, therefore, Deputy Presiding Officer, eagerly, to see the day when Wales will be free of plastic. 

Vikki Howells. 

Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. February 2018 is LGBT History Month. This important annual event gives us a chance to reflect on LGBT+ history, noting how far we have come in terms of promoting equal rights and diversity, but also the challenges and barriers we still have to overcome.

The year 2018 marks the hundredth anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, so it's perhaps no surprise that LGBT History Month this year explores the role that lesbians and bisexual women played in the votes-for-women campaign. Other important anniversaries include it being 40 years since Harvey Milk was murdered. It is also 30 years since the Conservative Government legislated for homophobia in the shape of section 28. Both latter commemorations adequately capture this year's theme, geography—mapping the world. This offers the chance to celebrate the global advance towards equal marriage, but also the opportunity to reflect on the persecution LGBT people face around the world and the role we must all play in changing this.

Community events are also important, highlighting this message at a grass-roots level. I was very pleased on Saturday to speak at the first ever LGBT+ history event to be held in Aberdare at the Cynon Valley Museum organised by a local group, Project Unity. I note the rainbow flag also marks its fortieth birthday this year. So, let's each of us fly the flag for equality and LGBT+ rights in 2018 and beyond.

Thank you. Darren Millar. 

The first of March marks the day of our patron saint, David, a devoted follower of Jesus Christ and the inspiration for the inaugural St David's parliamentary prayer breakfast, which will be held in the Pierhead building tomorrow morning. The prayer breakfast will bring together Assembly Members, international guests and others to celebrate Wales's rich Christian heritage, and the huge contribution of Christian congregations in the past, present and future to Welsh society. Guests will be braving the weather to travel from every corner of Wales, and they will enjoy the company of representatives from many places around the globe, including people from Germany and Switzerland, India, Israel, Singapore, the Netherlands, Palestine, Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Nigeria, and of course Siberia will also be represented in terms of the weather.

The event will be preceded by a reception here in the Senedd this evening, and will coincide with an exhibition of treasures from the archives of the National Library of Wales, including the famous Bible of Mary Jones, whose story led to the establishment of the Bible Society, and a scorched Bible that was damaged in a pit explosion in a coal mine that belonged to the famous Welsh revivalist Evan Roberts. We're grateful to those who've helped to make the event happen and we trust that it will be a blessing for this great nation of Wales, which we in this Chamber are proud to call our home. Happy St David's Day to you all.

Thank you.