I'm very pleased to speak in this debate, and congratulations to Siân Gwenllian for obtaining this debate and really focusing attention on this very important area. I want to speak here today because I want to give my wholehearted support to—well, I want to see job sharing introduced here for elected Members. I think Siân has done a really good job in explaining and all the difficulties—well, not difficulties, but all the positive things—and the sort of areas that we would have to look at if we were going to bring this in. 

Now, I know that there aren't any examples in Westminster, and certainly there are no examples here or in local government, I don't think, of people actually standing as job shares to be elected, but there are examples of people holding executive posts. For example, in Swansea council, the future generations portfolio is held as a job share by two councillors, and there's the example in Wandsworth, where the two Labour deputy leaders share the deputy leader post, which seems very good progress. So, I think that's something we ought to be considering here as well. So, although we haven't got any actual elected people in that sense, there is a movement towards it with these executive posts being job shared.  

So, I think it's absolutely crucial that we do make our Assembly more representative, that we have disabled people, women with caring responsibilities, men with caring responsibilities, and this is just one of the things that we can do to enable that to happen. So, I support very strongly the recommendation from the expert panel, and I hope that we'll all be able to move together and work towards perhaps making this the first elected place in the UK where we actually have councillors and Assembly Members elected on a job-share basis.