I'd like to talk about the experiences of a specific group of people who are suffering from having to go to England to receive mental health care, and that is new mothers who suffer from mental health problems. According to the Maternal Mental Health Alliance, these women are missing out on potentially life-saving care because of the lack of a specialist support unit in Wales. I believe that the first person to call for a specialist unit to be developed was my predecessor, Steffan Lewis. He was successful in playing a part in achieving a commitment from the Welsh Government to develop a permanent unit by 2021, as part of the 2018-19 budget deal between Labour and Plaid Cymru.

Now, we know that it doesn't look like this is going to happen, with Labour set to break a budget deal promise by opening an interim unit within a psychological hospital instead. That is not what was agreed, and it's not what's needed. Breaking a budget deal commitment is a very serious matter, not only in terms of political trust but, more importantly in this instance, it means that new mothers will continue to be denied the treatment that they need.

I'd like to place on record my thanks to BBC Cymru Wales for the excellent journalism that they've done over the past few years, giving a platform to some of the women who have been affected by this. One new mother who was treated at a psychiatric unit—a setting deemed inappropriate for the condition, according to experts—told the BBC reporter:

'I was not in an appropriate environment…there was absolutely no provision for my partner and son to visit during the day.'

Again, we're talking about women in a very vulnerable condition, when they need their families more than ever.