Freedom of movement opens horizons. People living amongst us in our communities have benefited from this freedom—people who will now see those horizons disappear. It is a remarkable and deeply sad phenomenon, but here we are.

I mentioned the focus groups that we held as a committee, and their testimony was devastating: people who have lived much of their lives in Wales who no longer feel welcome because of Government policy, because of uncertainty and because of the deeply damaging rhetoric that has poisoned debate—those demons awoken by some elements of the referendum debate. The people in the focus groups talked about this dystopian situation that was facing them, the barriers in their way to applying for settled status, the hoops they have to jump through, the anxiety about finding out you've only been awarded pre-settled status, and the Kafkaesque fact that, even if you're granted settled status, you don't get any hard-copy proof of that status—like a nightmarish mirage. The thing that stung me to the heart was the stories we heard about children being picked on in school—as young as five or six—because their parents weren't born here, or because they weren't born here, and they were told by their classmates, 'We voted for you to go home.' What kind of nation do we want to be: one where people who've chosen to live their lives here are welcomed and supported, or one where we put up barriers?

The report also makes clear how pernicious and damaging the £30,000 salary threshold will be for our economy. The price that the UK Government has chosen to put on the welcome that we give to some citizens doesn't fit with our needs in Wales. And our report makes it clear that the vast majority of EU nationals living and contributing to our economy in Wales already earn far less than that threshold. And they matter. They contribute. They are our neighbours, our colleagues, our friends. Unless this is challenged and changed it will have a terrible impact, yes, on our services, on our NHS, but also on us as a people.

Llywydd, if you visit Shakespeare and Company in Paris—though that may be more difficult to do after Brexit, who knows? But, if you do go, there is a wonderful quotation on the wall:

'Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.'

Now, in this, I'm a disciple of John Donne. I believe that no man is an island, that we are not truly strangers to one another, regardless of where we were born. I am an internationalist, and I believe firmly that the way we treat our fellow women and men pays dividends.

EU nationals contribute to our society. That contribution won't diminish after Brexit, and our appreciation of them must not diminish either. We and our policies should follow the better angels of our nature, not our worst.