We on the Plaid Cymru benches will be supporting these amendments, but I would like to take a few moments to explain how we will engage with this Bill more generally at the outset.

There are a number of reasons why we believe we're unable to support the Bill as currently drafted and that it's unlikely that we could support the Bill after we've gone through the process that we're going through today. There are a number of reasons for that, and the main reason is that this Bill would weaken the voice of the patient by abolishing the community health councils, which have been strong advocates for patients, and that's certainly true in the part of Wales in which I live, in north Wales. And there's also a failing in the Bill in providing instead of what we have now a model that would provide the same independence and the same understanding of the reality and the needs for health and care services in various parts of Wales.

But there are other parts of the Bill that we also think are inadequate. What we have here is a Bill that appears to be putting quality at the heart of service planning, but then fails to sufficiently, clearly and robustly define what the expected quality and standards are, referring rather to health and care standards, and the latest document that defines those is dated 2015, I believe. Therefore, there are fundamental weaknesses here that we regret that we haven't been able to tackle in an appropriate manner during this Bill's processes through the Senedd. And here I pay tribute to Helen Mary Jones for the work that she did as health spokesperson for Plaid Cymru during the earlier stages of this Bill's progress through the Senedd.