Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'd like to thank Members for their contributions to today's debate and deal with the Government amendments and comments made during the debate. It's a fact that, before the COVID pandemic, we had made four years of continuous improvement in waiting times across Wales. The last year, the pace of improvement scaled as a direct result of the tax and pension issues across the UK. Like all countries, the pandemic has impacted and continues to impact upon our ability to treat all patients as efficiently as we would like—points that were well recognised and noted in the contribution by Dai Lloyd. 

As the September statistics show, many patients are now waiting much longer. Those statistics show that the over-36-week waits have increased sixfold from February to September within this year. Like other parts of the UK, we will see further increases as we respond to coronavirus during this public health emergency. I should, perhaps, at this point address some of the comments about capacity in England or the independent sector. We already have arrangements in place with the independent sector through the pandemic. We already make use, from time to time, of independent sector activity to deal with waiting list initiatives. There's nothing new in that. However, the capacity that is regularly made use of in the English system is unlikely to be available to us because of the significant scale of the backlog that they will have to deal with. 

Sadly, as was recently highlighted in the community health council report yesterday, the condition of some patients will worsen whilst they are waiting. This reinforces the need to control the spread of coronavirus and to increase the number of planned operations as safely and as quickly as possible. Coronavirus has affected almost every aspect of healthcare, from learning how to treat and care for people who are seriously ill with COVID, the long COVID treatment—we're still learning more about the condition—to making physical changes to clinics, surgeries and operating theatres to both protect staff and patients from the risk of contracting this highly infectious virus. And I remain incredibly grateful to our dedicated NHS and social care staff for their commitment and their compassion during these unprecedented times.