It's my pleasure to take part in this very important debate, and I thank Siân Gwenllian for her clear leadership at the outset. Of course, the Plaid Cymru motion calls for investigating the feasibility of devolution of broadcasting to Wales. I said that slowly because that is quite a simple motion. It's not the most radical idea that has been proposed here—just investigating the feasibility of devolving broadcasting in Wales.

Like Siân, I congratulate Elfed Wyn Jones, who was here on the steps of the Senedd yesterday, who had been on a hunger strike for a week to call for the devolution of broadcasting. He reflects increasing demands for this to happen. The Brexit vote showed how little Welsh people know about current affairs in their own country. Wales does benefit from being in the European Union, and it accepts more money into Wales than goes out. But there wasn't much talk of that during the Brexit referendum campaign, or the fact that 200,000 jobs in Wales depend on our membership of the single market. London news: that's what the majority of people in Wales receive. We have to investigate, with great effort sometimes, to find anything out about Wales, and important details such as those I've just mentioned.

Our Welsh newspapers, our local papers, are contracting, as newspapers are everywhere. There's no mention of Wales on the BBC Radio 2 service, which is the radio station that has the most listeners here in Wales. No mention of Wales. S4C was established and that was a great boost, naturally, back in 1982. That was a great boost to our nation, to our identity, and to our culture. But we need much more. Wales is here for everyone, whether they speak Welsh or not. S4C is superb, but we need more to promote the self-respect of 3 million people, and to promote the development of an entire nation.

Because on daily matters, not just such as Brexit, but the health service, for example—as Siân has said—a third of Welsh people don't know that health has been devolved to this place for nearly 20 years. I remember that during the strike of doctors in hospitals in England last year doctors in Morriston Hospital in Swansea also thought that they were on strike, and were looking for the closest barricades. Now, often, I am one to look for a barricade, but it was inappropriate in that case, because there were no strikes in Wales, but many people didn't realise that at all. There are many other examples of publications in London creating a story in Wales even though they're not relevant to us at all, not just in health, but in education and all kinds of other areas that have been devolved. People should know that by having their news here in Wales, broadcast here from Wales.

So, to close, we insist that we hear the truth about our country. We insist that we at least investigate the feasibility of devolving broadcasting. It has happened in other countries—in the Basque Country, for example, it's happening very successfully. It's happened with S4C—we need to develop that. We need to devolve broadcasting fully.

There is a story to be told of our nation. We suffer—as we heard in the earlier debate—with the governance of the UK, relating to Brexit, the lack of respect that there is for our nation and the lack of respect that there is for our Government here in those negotiations. We want to build on the success of the existence of S4C in a political climate that is very fragile, where the survival of our nation itself is under threat. Ultimately, we insist that broadcasting is devolved. Thank you very much.