Diolch, Llywydd. I'd like to formally move the amendments tabled in the name of my colleague Darren Millar. I'd like to thank Helen Mary Jones for being able to agree and disagree with her so well in the health portfolio over the last few years—I shall miss you. And welcome back, Rhun. It is groundhog day, but good to see you. And, of course, it is groundhog day in many other ways, and I do understand your sense of déjà vu, because in your brief absence from the health portfolio, very little has improved, very little has changed, and that is a great, great concern.

That's why the motion tabled by Plaid is not one that we fundamentally disagree with; it states fact and expresses concerns about the performance of the Welsh NHS. However, we do feel that the motion could be much stronger, and this is why we will be opposing the motion in order to seek support for our amendments, which I'm going to touch on in my contribution.

What we certainly do not agree with, Deputy Minister, is the Welsh Government's amendment 2, which, as usual, devolves all responsibility for everything that happens here in Wales to absolutely anybody and everybody else you can possibly think of when, in fact, your party, your Government, with the aid of Plaid Cymru, have been running the Welsh NHS for the past 20 years. And we see from your amendment exactly why we are in the position we are today. The NHS in Wales is failing in part because of the decisions taken by its leadership and the lack of leadership that it does receive from the highest level. Your amendment seeks to not only blame others, but it does not address why you've taken the decisions that you have since the devolution settlement was agreed.

Now, one thing I want to make very clear—and I think probably all of us would want to chime in with this—is that, in any debate that we have on this matter, I'm always conscious of the damage that can be inflicted on the morale of the front-line workforce who are treating patients day in, day out, having to deal with the consequence of decisions that politicians and senior managers have taken. I want to again place on record my gratitude to those staff, to the dedication, their willingness to go above and beyond to work those extra hours, often without pay. And my message to those who work in the Welsh NHS and in social care is, to be frank: you deserve better. And by highlighting the issues that we do in our debates that we bring forward here, or amendments that we make to debates, it is our intention, the intention of my party, to try and put pressure on the Welsh Government and the health board management to facilitate the change we need to see.

Turning to our amendments—and I apologise for this—I'd like to just do them in slightly reverse order. Amendment 5: we do welcome the boost to the block grant that the Chancellor announced in his autumn spending review back in September, and I would like to remind the Assembly that the Minister for Finance described this addition to the block grant as a 'pre-election distraction'. And I would respectfully point out that if it was not for her party's mismanagement of the economy throughout the UK, the reduction in spending that was required to get the economy back on track would not have had to have taken place. So, it's not ideologically driven—