Diolch, Presiding Officer. I formally move amendment 2 in the name of my colleague Darren Millar. Can I congratulate Plaid on a very well crafted motion and indicate our full support today? The Government's amendment today was not well crafted, as it does fail to recognise the responsibility for provision of capacity for Welsh services and Wales-only services under the railway franchise that was operated by Arriva Trains Wales. That was a matter for the Welsh Government and has been since 2006, and this is the basis of my amendment today in the name of Darren Millar and to the point to which I want to speak about in my contribution.

The Government amendment points to investment in rolling stock over the next 15 years. That's very welcome, but what on earth, I would say, has happened for the last 13 years, which is the point that we need to debate today? This is the subject of the debate today. The Welsh Government have been peddling a myth. It's a myth that the rolling stock has been a matter for the UK Government. That is not true. It is a matter for the Welsh Government and it has been for the past decade and more. The truth is that responsibilities were passed from the Department for Transport to the Welsh Assembly Government, as it was then, in a joint parties agreements that came into operation on 1 April 2006. Therefore, the Plaid Cymru motion is entirely correct, stating that the Welsh Government has failed to take responsibility or take appropriate action to address the issues with capacity on Wales-only rail services not just since 2013, as it happens, but as far back as 2006.

The Government amendment also requests that the UK Government should work with devolved administrations to develop a different model for the rolling stock system, but it has to be remembered that the Welsh Government has had full discretion under the devolution arrangements since the joint parties agreement was agreed, and that funding attributed to Wales-only and Welsh services has been transferred to the Welsh Government under a separate agreement since April 2006, and that has been part of the baseline block grant from the Treasury since April 2008. But, of course, the Government do know this, because the Government are aware of this and the Government made its own funding available for additional carriages back in 2007.

And, as Rhun mentioned, the Welsh Government was warned in 2013 by the Enterprise and Business Committee that it must address rolling stock issues as a matter of urgency, and it failed to heed those warnings. I think the Minister was a member of that committee for some time. I'm not sure if he was a member when those recommendations were made and which the Government then sadly rejected. We have words bandied around from the Government in regard to the previous franchise holder, of 'handing over appalling trains', and suggestions that Transport for Wales have inherited rolling stock akin to a 30-year-old Ford Escort with the clutch out of order and brakes not working, and it's been said that some equipment passed over was infected with dead rats. But the reality is that the buck stops with the Welsh Government in relation to the state of trains in Wales and planning for rolling stock. The Welsh Government did not act when they should have back in 2013, if not earlier.

The current service, as well, as has been pointed out in the opening contribution, is still completely unacceptable. Over recent months, we continue to see cancelled trains, delayed trains, lack of staff, signalling problems, capacity problems, lack of quality information to passengers, and overcrowding, and this is unacceptable by anyone's standards and hardly the immediate transformation that was promised by the Government.

The Plaid motion today, I think, has hit the nail on the head in terms of the present situation and, disappointingly, the Government has done a more or less 'delete all' to the motion put forward today. So, I look forward to further contributions to this debate this afternoon, Presiding Officer.