I'm pleased to have the opportunity for the second time today to scrutinise the programme for government annual report. I won't rehearse the points I made earlier on the systemic lack of delivery of this Government in key areas such as child poverty and fuel poverty. But I will say that we have become far too familiar with this repetitious pattern over the term of this Government and previous Governments: targets being set, targets being missed, targets being dropped, targets being reset even further into the future, as we've seen with the latest target on the environment today.

In other areas such as housing, the targets are so meaningless and so far removed from the reality of people's life on the ground under this Government, that you do have to question the value of the exercise in the first instance. Whilst the Government boasts in this document about delivering its manifesto commitment to build 20,000 affordable homes, the reality for too many people in Wales—particularly young people—is that they can't afford to buy houses in communities that are on their knees as a result of too many second homes and in communities where the Labour Government's allegedly affordable homes sell for £250,000 and more, and do more to increase the profits of private developers than they do in meeting local needs for housing. Even the housing Minister herself has now acknowledged that the definition and this Government's emphasis on affordable homes is not fit for purpose in terms of tackling the homelessness crisis in Wales.

At a political level, the lack of will to respond sufficiently swiftly and robustly to complex issues such as the second-homes crisis, which is literally working against so many of the Government's other priorities, from the Welsh language to sustainability, actually hinders delivery. And whilst budgets are tight, the inability to work creatively and to implement policies such as the expansion of free school meals—as we heard again in the budget debate—which would bring clear benefits in so many areas and possible savings too, even after the child poverty review stated that this was the one thing that could make the biggest difference in transforming the lives of children living in poverty, is just negligent.

But the deficiencies in terms of political will and ambition in themselves don't explain what's at the core of the lack of delivery on a systemic basis. It's clear that the machine supporting governance in Wales in its broadest sense is not adequate and not properly aligned, as Alun Davies referred to earlier, in terms of delivering the comprehensive agenda in terms of sustainability and prevention that there is a broad consensus in favour of. The statutory framework that this Senedd has put in place is there on paper, and in principle at least, but as the Public Accounts Committee's inquiry and the Finance Committee's inquiry is currently discovering, in terms of barriers to the delivery of the future generations Act, we need fundamental changes if we are to deliver long-term progress.

Ironically, perhaps it's the pandemic above all else, and the need to act swiftly together as one team, one nation, one public service, that will be the driver that will have done most to deliver these aims and objectives, more than anything else that the Government has done during this term. So, how therefore do we take that next step in terms of operating as one public service, one nation, as we recover from the pandemic and avoid those old ways of working? In terms of the Government's public services in their entirety, we have to be more disciplined and try and reduce the number of indicators and objectives and strategies that are just piling up, and focus on the main well-being objectives within the well-being of future generations Act; one framework in terms of a programme for government, for the work of all of the arm's-length bodies, the councils and so on, and empowering staff and specialists on the ground in their various sectors to do their work without tinkering from the centre. The great reward of independence ultimately will be further devolution and empowerment within Wales, going hand in hand.

No Government, be it central or local, can undertake a properly independent assessment of its own performance. So, we need better accountability and an external overview in order to measure performance. Surely, the future generations commissioner has a more specific role to play, and the Senedd itself for that matter, in terms of accountability and delivery in the next term. Would the First Minister perhaps agree that creating a public administration committee within this Senedd would bridge that gap between the role of political leaders and leaders within the public sector? Certainly, this First Minister in waiting—