Thank you, Presiding Officer. Everyone in Wales deserves to have their rights recognised and made real, and raising the awareness of older people about the rights they already have and making sure those rights are embedded in both the way public services are delivered, and, indeed, in society more broadly, is of the utmost importance, and I do believe it is this concern that has prompted Darren Millar to bring this Bill proposed today, and I certainly agree strongly with the sentiments that lie behind the proposed Bill.

Wales has a long history of working with and for older people, as Darren Millar has acknowledged, from the introduction of the first strategy for older people in Wales in 2003 to establishing the world's first older people's commissioner in 2008, and this work continues today with a renewed focus on older people's rights, as Huw Irranca-Davies has mentioned. Current work to embed older people's rights across the Welsh public services includes the following: producing practical guidance to demonstrate how public bodies can have due regard to the UN Principles for Older Persons, as required by the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014; updating the 2009 guidance on escalating concerns on the closure of care homes; planning for a social care awareness-raising campaign in spring 2019, which will include awareness raising about older people's rights under existing law; and working closely with older people, public bodies, third sector organisations and leading academics to co-produce a strategy for an ageing society—and early work on this is being overseen by the ministerial advisory forum on ageing. It will adopt a rights-based approach that is placing older people at the heart of policy making. That's not an exhaustive list, but I think it does demonstrate the Welsh Government's commitment to protect and uphold older persons' rights. 

In addition to this work on making rights real, Welsh Government has taken many actions to support older people on a wider basis. This includes free swimming, free bus passes, boosting advocacy services, engaging older people through a ministerial advisory forum, funding falls prevention initiatives, improving the quality of care homes, funding a dementia action plan, tackling loneliness and isolation, increasing the capital limit for residential care, and investing significantly in health and care, including through the integrated care fund. 

So, when we consider the merits of this proposed legislation, we must put it in context. Older people's rights are already enshrined in the UK Human Rights Act 1998, and age is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010. Specifically in Wales, the social services and well-being Act requires local authorities to have due regard to the UN Principles for Older People and gives older people a strong voice in the arrangements for any care they may need. [Interruption.] Yes, certainly.