Item 6 on the agenda this afternoon is 90-second statements. The first this week is from Jenny Rathbone.

Thank you very much. One in 10 women is affected by endometriosis. The causes of endometriosis are unclear, but retrograde menstruation, hormonal imbalance, surgical scars, problems with the immune system and genetics all play a part.

Many women suffer for years before understanding why they suffer with painful monthly periods, chronic lower back pain, pain during sex, diarrhoea, constipation, bloating and nausea, especially during their periods. Parents, teachers, employers and even the medical profession fail to spot the symptoms. It can take an average of eight years and 26 GP appointments to get to see an endometriosis specialist.

Endometriosis awareness training for GPs is now being rolled out across the Welsh NHS. And more endo nurses are being employed in line with NICE guidance. But there's only one specialist endometriosis centre in Cardiff for the whole of Wales, with a range of treatments to alleviate, but unfortunately unable to cure, this disease. Endometriosis costs the UK economy over £8 billion in healthcare treatments and lost employment, and the psychosocial impact is hard to put a figure on.

I want to pay tribute to the Endo March Wales co-ordinators: Nikki Dally, Samantha Hickson and Karla Edwards and all the other grass-roots campaigners who’ve raised the profile of endometriosis in Wales. It takes place every year on the last Saturday of this month. Last year, they were in Cardiff and Llandudno, and on Saturday, 28 March, they'll be in Cardiff and Mold. If you can, please join them.

On 8 March 1955, Dai Dower faced off in a boxing ring in the Earls Court arena against Nazzareno Gianelli. Dower beat his opponent, taking the European flyweight title. He was described as 'Boxing at his brilliant best'. He dazzled the watching crowd. This was the high point of the professional career of

'the fighting phenomenon of the south Wales Valleys’.

He claimed his third title, added to his British and Empire championships.

Life had started very differently for David William Dower. Born 20 June 1933, he started his career working as a miner in Abercynon colliery. A flair for boxing led to a successful amateur career, which he pursued alongside his grinding work in the pit. He was amateur flyweight champion, and competed in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki. His professional career began the following year. When he took the European title, Dower was undefeated in the ring. In 1956, he was ranked second in the world. March 1957 saw him fail to claim the world flyweight title, and although he also lost the European title, he was undefeated British and Empire champion.

In 1958, Dower retired from professional sport at the ripe old age of 25. He became a sports teacher in a Bournemouth school, ending up head of sport at the town’s university. He died in August 2016, but his memory, as one of Wales's most successful sportsmen, and one of Abercynon’s most beloved sons, lives on.

This week is the hundredth anniversary of the death of Daniel James. Daniel James was a poet and hymn writer, but he is far better known by his bardic name, Gwyrosydd. Whilst being a prolific hymn writer, he is best known for composing the words of Calon Lân, which is normally sung to a tune written by John Hughes who was from Ynystawe in Swansea.

He was both born and buried in Swansea. He was a member of Mynyddbach chapel, the mother church for the Independent movement in Swansea, which now has the Calon Lân Centre attached to it. He started work in the Morriston ironworks as a puddler and he later worked in Landore tinplate works. In his middle age, the Landore works closed, and he found work successively at Tredegar, Dowlais, Blaengarw, and eventually in Mountain Ash, spending 15 years in one of Nixon's collieries, and finally, whilst in failing health, working for the local authority.

Much of his verse was unassuming and very popular, appearing first in periodicals and newspapers. He would also write a poem for a pint at the King's Head in Treboeth—perhaps the original 'poems and pints'. There has been a memorial tablet in Treboeth Public Hall since 1936, and a more recent one has been installed in Caersalem Newydd in Treboeth. The Calon Lân Society in Swansea have held several events and will be installing stained glass windows in the local school to commemorate the life of Daniel James, an ordinary working man with exceptional talent whose hymn, Calon Lân is the best-loved Welsh hymn. 

Thank you.