Plaid Cymru will vote in favour of these regulations. I believe that the decision to close secondary schools could have been taken earlier because of the details that had been outlined by the technical advisory cell on 3 December, but the Minister chose to wait until the chief medical officer virtually ordered that this needed to happen, and that has created problems.

I believe that provision should have been put in place on school sites for children of families who can't, or can't afford to arrange child care for the younger secondary school pupils, particularly with so little warning or notice for families that schools were to close. This decision taken late in the day has created a whole host of problems, and in very many cases, it's grandparents who have to help out, and therefore they are putting themselves at risk of possibly catching the virus. Now, for many people, there is no choice but to carry on working, and to rely on older family members to help, or to leave the children home alone, and that, clearly, isn't acceptable either. So, provision for them, for those families who can't arrange childcare this week, would have been a step in the right direction, in my view.

I continue to be very concerned about the digital divide. As the BBC and the Children's Commissioner for Wales have found, there are children who still don't have laptops; they are trying to access education through gaming machines, Xboxes or mobile phones. There are children who are slipping through the net, and although the Minister feels the situation is under control, that isn't the picture that is emerging for me through the work referred to me as casework and so on. That's why Plaid Cymru is calling for the establishment of a national register for tracking who has digital equipment and who has broadband connectivity, so that we can then provide the additional resources as is required.

Finally, in light of all of the disruption to education that has been happening now since March, I do call on the Government to publish its post-COVID education plans early in the new year, and to announce how they will be implemented, and what additional resources will be made available to schools. A huge effort will be required to support our children and young people through their education and with their mental health and well-being; that's required now, but it'll be required for months, if not years, to come, and the sooner we can see the plans for the ensuing period the better, so that we can scrutinise them constructively from the back benches. I'm very eager to support that process. Thank you.