Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I regret that I'm not able to approve the motion before the Assembly this afternoon. It troubles me on several levels. In particular, we are not a self-selecting club in this Assembly with complete freedom to impose terms of membership upon it. We derive our right to sit here not from the approbation of our peers. [Interruption.] Kindly listen to what I'm going to say before you start heckling. We derive our right to sit here not from the approbation of our peers, but from the votes of the people, and excluding any Member is a serious interference with the democratic rights of the people who are to be represented by us, depriving North Wales, in this particular instance, of one of its Members. 

Now, all parliaments, of course, have rules to exclude unruly Members to maintain order in proceedings, without which we can't function properly. But very few other institutions around the world seek to exclude Members for using objectionable words outside the relevant assembly, let alone, as in this case, in a private telephone conversation between close friends never intended to be made public. And in this case, the position is even worse—[Interruption.] Well, Members, if they don't listen, are not going to be able to reach a rational decision on this, are they? So, I'd just kindly ask them to afford me—