Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to say a few words in this very important debate. I'd like to congratulate Jack Sargeant for putting forward this subject, because I think this is a difficult subject and I think he shows courage in putting it forward. I do think we need a kinder politics—a politics of mutual respect—and I think in the short time he's been here Jack has contributed to that mutual respect.

Before I came here as an Assembly Member, along with others in this Chamber, I was a Member in the House of Commons, and when I came here it did seem a more consensual Chamber. It did seem that people looked to where they agreed as well as where they disagreed, and I felt that there was a great deal of mutual respect. But I do feel that that has deteriorated over the last few years, and I feel that as an example, as Jack has said, to the public, in this Chamber we have not always been very good examples recently, and I think it has become more confrontational. There's been more shouting and there's been less tolerance of each other as individuals.

I'd like to support this debate very strongly, because I do believe it is possible to hold passionate views, to differ very strongly, but to still respect each other, and I think that we ought to do that in this Chamber. I think Jack's debate today highlights that, and I'd like to give it my fullest support.