I appreciate there are challenges across the health board but, in particular, around staffing. But what is really important here is, obviously, that the decisions that have been taken on A&E at the Royal Glamorgan are predicated on the south Wales programme. The Royal Glamorgan is located in an area of high density population, with a growing population and growing demand. Now, I take it that the health board have the day-to-day function to run health services within its area, but you, as Minister, and your officials in Cathays Park, obviously set the strategy and direction of the health service here in Wales. Predicated on the south Wales programme, no consultant would have gone to the Royal Glamorgan on the basis that the service was going to be downgraded. 

Can I ask you, Minister, to intervene personally, as Minister who has responsibility for the strategic direction of the health service here in Wales, and insist that the health board re-evaluate their proposals and retain accident and emergency 24-hour provision at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, because every indicator shows that that is a growing demand area for that service, and a withdrawal of such a service will be devastating to the area it serves? You have the ability to do it, Minister. If you choose not to, I respect that, but you will be turning your back on the communities which live in that area and depend on the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. And it is now time that the health board in that particular area re-evaluated the options available to it, and, in particular, the decisions it took around the south Wales programme, which I would suggest, taken some six years ago, are out of date today.