Llywydd, I've been trying, in preparing for something to say today, to think myself back to 1999, and, as I look around the gallery, it seems an even more daunting task to try to recall the things that were important to us then. And 20 years into devolution, this is inevitably a moment for reflection on our shared history. What I'm intending to do is, by reflecting on matters from the perspective of 1999, to try and identify some of those things that I think we would have been pleasantly surprised at if we'd known then what was to happen over those 20 years. But I'll think as well about those things that we would have been disappointed at over the 20-year history and, finally, to look ahead to some new challenges, and especially challenges that I think we might not have anticipated 20 years ago having to face in the Wales of today. And, Llywydd, because some of us are 20 years older as well, I am going to offer five reflections in each of those three categories, mostly because it helps me to remember them, but partly because I hope it's easier to follow some of this as well.

I'm going to begin, if I could, with just one personal observation. I arrived here at the National Assembly before the first year of devolution was at an end, and it's easy to forget just how rocky that start had been—the closeness of the referendum result and the election in 1999 of an uncertain minority administration. By the time I arrived here, three of the four party leaders who had started that first year of devolution had already been replaced. One had been defeated on the floor of the Assembly, one had been deposed in a palace coup and one was appearing before Kingston Crown Court—[Laughter.]—in a trial involving, as I recall, a pizza and for allegedly wanting to spend more time with other people's families than his own.