I'm presenting and moving this motion today on the same day as a new organisation is officially launched, an organisation whose aims and objectives I'm very pleased to endorse. The launch of the Wales Hydrogen Trade Association reflects the fact that the world has woken up, I think, to the huge potential of hydrogen as a weapon against climate change. Developments linked to hydrogen will help us not only strive towards our decarbonisation goals, but also to clean up the air in our urban areas. Air pollution was the topic of one of Plaid Cymru's most recent debates here, just a few weeks ago.

Some of you will have had a go on the hydrogen bike, hopefully, which was on show outside the Senedd at lunch time today, where hydrogen energy took the strain off our legs. The possibilities for hydrogen really are endless in terms of meeting our energy needs. You'll have heard me many times in this Chamber promoting the environmental benefits of a shift towards EVs, or electric vehicles, and direct electric power is certainly the leading technology for ultra-low emission private cars at the moment, but hydrogen offers potential there too. We even have our own hydrogen car company here in Wales in Riversimple. If cars could widely run on hydrogen in future, we're already seeing more developed applications in larger commercial transport—lorries, buses, ships, trains—add to that the fact that heating systems, even whole power stations, could run on a fuel whose only emission is water, and given that hydrogen can be generated using purely renewable power, you start to get the picture.

Nineteen organisations, I think, form part of the new Wales Hydrogen Trade Association, from energy generation and distribution companies to construction companies, utilities, Riversimple, which I mentioned earlier, a host of organisations that can see they have a role or an interest—commercially, environmentally or indeed socially—in supporting investment in hydrogen in Wales in the future. What they've seen is that now is the time for Wales to make a statement that we want to be genuinely a part of this first major wave in this new energy revolution.

What I'm looking for, in effect, from tabling this motion, is for this Parliament to express its support for that, to express that we see in hydrogen an area of huge environmental health and economic benefits. And, of course, I'll be listening carefully to the Minister for not just words of support, but evidence of concrete action that Welsh Government is ready to take and take quickly. For example, it's great that Government has recently put out a tender document seeking a provider to

'provide support to Welsh Government...to help bring forward a proposed support pathway and developing pipeline proposals' in and around the development of hydrogen. It's a two-year piece of work, but I hope that we'll see projects begin to be developed now in parallel with that study. There's a study in Scotland, for example, that's due to report in just four months, by May this year, and we simply can't afford to miss this hydrogen-fuelled boat. And speaking of boats, I'm particularly excited about the potential of hydrogen to bring benefits to my constituency and the port of Holyhead; cross Irish sea traffic turning to hydrogen fuel could be a very important part of that.

The motion refers specifically to the potential for hydrogen developments on Ynys Môn. Just imagine the scope for using excess marine and wind renewable energy generated around Ynys Môn at night, say, to produce hydrogen in a plant in the north of the island, where we really need jobs, and using that to power road vehicles, trains and, yes, ships to and from Ynys Môn. Imagine then the potential of using the old Shell crude oil pipeline running from the north of the island directly to the north west of England, creating a new, environmentally innovative export industry, exporting hydrogen. Imagine tying that, then, into social enterprise, even.