I too welcome this statement today. Creating a new way of introducing sex, sexuality and relationships education is an important positive step forward, and I congratulate you personally for driving this agenda forward with energy.

I agree entirely with you that the emphasis needs to be on healthy relationships as well as the other aspects, and I also agree that children at the age of five are very open to sex and relationships and sexuality education. As a mother of four, I clearly remember the numerous questions that I was asked when the children were very, very young: questions that were very simple very often—they were factual issues raised by the children. It’s us, the adults, who have created this complexity and mystery surrounding sex, and it’s about time that we moved away from that. Having parents and children introducing the same messages positively and together is very important indeed.

What we’re doing here today, for me, is one of the great blessings of devolution. What we’re doing here is allowing ourselves to draw up our own innovative policies as we break new ground. That is, we’ve identified a problem and we have found a unique, Welsh solution to that problem, without waiting for Westminster to take action on our behalf.

Having said that, I’m sorry to become slightly negative at this point, but I do regret that it has taken so long for us to get to this point. As Mark Isherwood mentioned, during the discussions on the Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act 2015, and prior to that, Plaid Cymru sought to ensure that healthy relationships and sex education was included in that particular Bill, and it’s taken until now for the Government to recognise the importance of this issue, and in the meantime, of course, a generation of children have missed out on an important aspect of their education. I acknowledge your personal commitment to this area, so can you explain the main barriers that you have faced in seeking to drive this policy forward? And are there lessons to be learned in order to hasten the process of introducing innovative policies for the future in education and in other areas too?

This new policy will provide a focus on scrapping the damaging aspects, including gender stereotyping, which militate against the development of individuals to their full potential. The First Minister wants his legacy to be a feminist legacy. He has a pledge to make Wales the safest place for women in Europe and to transform the Welsh Government to become a feminist Government. This follows a period of increasing attention on gender equality, and, of course, the gender review is happening across—