Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. I am very pleased to take part in today’s debate on the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee’s report on dentistry in Wales. This is the second of the committee’s reports in a series of spotlight inquiries on health issues that are vitally important to the people of Wales.

The committee agreed to undertake a one-day inquiry to shine a light on dental and orthodontic services in Wales, along with wider workforce issues within the dental profession, including training places and recruitment. We published our report in May of this year and made six recommendations to the Welsh Government. I am pleased that the Minister has accepted all six of them, and I look forward to the Minister’s response today, which I am sure will provide some of the detail around how he will remedy the enduring problems of patient access to dental services and the profession’s long-standing dissatisfaction with the contract system.