Bullying of any kind is disgusting behaviour. We must, of course, all do all we can to eradicate it in all its forms. What Neil has been accused of may not have been acceptable, but it isn't necessarily more impactful on the victim than the bullying inflicted in the Chamber, where mobbing is a regular occurrence. We should all be accustomed to challenge and heckling in this place, but the line between that and abuse is often crossed. I'm sure that some Members will excuse their behaviour as 'banter'. Well, there is a very big difference between good-natured banter and the onslaught that often greets anyone in this place who has a dissenting opinion. It isn't banter; it's a means to silence and exclude dissenting views, as is the pride of certain Members of this place in sending other Members to Coventry. And when I stood up to a couple of them and told them to shut up because their mobbing was so intrusive, it was me who ended up being asked to apologise, not them. As per usual in a bullying culture, the bullies painted themselves as the injured parties.

Members of this place have spoken many pious words about bullying and how damaging it is, and, of course, there are many Members who are pleasant, professional people, or at least have the courtesy to listen, even if they don't agree. How many Members of this place, though, who now condemn Neil McEvoy, have tried to do something about the bullying that goes on? How many of you have spoken up about it or confronted it when it happens?

Today is the first time we're debating a potential case of it happening—why is that? This place is supposed to be about equality, yet the only thing equal about it is that the number of times bullying has been left undealt with is equal to the number of times it's happened. If we vote for this motion, I'm concerned that the perception will be that bullying in this place is dealt with, and that this is the only case of it happening. That would be a huge distortion of the truth, to the point of being utterly disingenuous. Bullying happens a lot here and yet the only time it has been charged as a breach of anti-bullying policy or standards is on an occasion when the complaint has been motivated by political gain. And anyone who thinks that bullying doesn't go on here needs to really educate themselves about what passive-aggressive bullying actually is. If we genuinely want Wales to be governed by people from a more representative cross-section of society, rather than a Government made up largely of people from the political class we have today, we must act against bullying every time it happens, not just those times when a few people deem it politically advantageous to do so. Thank you.