Care homes have borne the brunt of the COVID-19 crisis, with care home residents accounting for around a third of all deaths. Now, the Welsh Government was allowing untested residents to enter care homes from hospital up until 23 April, which was an absolute scandal that Ministers will have to be held accountable for in an upcoming inquiry, even if they're not always keen to answer questions about it when asked by Members of the Senedd. It took months of pressure before the Welsh Government agreed to roll out a comprehensive weekly testing strategy for care homes, and, until pressure was exerted, there was no new strategy in place.

Now, I do welcome the fact that that has been announced today, but Care Forum Wales has said that there was no engagement at all with the sector about what was set to happen. Care homes were let down once again, and I think that that is utterly unacceptable. But can the Minister explain the reason for initially discontinuing these tests given that we had excess capacity, the reason why a replacement scheme was not ready to be implemented and announced immediately, and his justification for not engaging with the sector to explain this? Finally, do you accept, Minister, that this delay in letting the sector know what would happen until the last minute caused unnecessary distress?