Thank you very much, temporary Deputy Presiding Officer. I’m pleased to move the motion, which is based on work commissioned by me using the Assembly’s research funds. It’s being published as a report, ‘The Potential of Hydrogen in the Decarbonisation of Transport in Wales’. If any Member wants a copy, then they are welcome to contact me. I would also like to thank Riversimple, the hydrogen car company in Llandrindod Wells, which staged the launch of this report and gave me an opportunity to be driven around in a hydrogen vehicle—I was joined by many others—and to experience this technology. It’s excellent to see not only that research is happening in Wales but that there is an effort to deliver on that research as a real project, and that that is happening in mid Wales rather than in the usual locations.

The report looks into the possibility of using hydrogen as a fuel in the transport system in Wales, but more broadly taking advantage of the opportunity to develop a hydrogen-based economy too. We look at a number of examples across the world, particularly in western Europe, where hydrogen is currently in use, and how European funds and research funds are used to promote this technology—technology that was born in Wales in the hands of Sir William Grove, but which has the potential for a great future.

Hydrogen is important to us because we need every tool possible in our fight against the dual challenges of climate change and air pollution. I am not arguing that hydrogen outdoes every other method. What I am arguing is that hydrogen has a role and the potential in delivering alongside things such as electric vehicles and more specific things such as reducing the number of journeys taken in the first place.

The main merit of hydrogen is that it does not produce any nitrogen dioxide or toxic matter when it is used, and water is the only emission of a hydrogen machine or cell, and that means that we clean up our towns with clean air and take advantage of opportunities—