Diolch, Llywydd. Thanks to Laura Anne Jones for what she said in opening her remarks; this is indeed a day of reflection, and we ought to do exactly that. I don't think I've ever claimed that the decisions made by the Welsh Government are perfect. Sometimes, I feel like I've spent 12 months walking along a tightrope with an enormous chasm underneath—always balancing, always trying to find the right centre of gravity between so many competing harms and so many competing needs. And of course, reasonable people can disagree about whether that balance has been properly struck, or optimally struck.

I think it has been one of the strengths of Welsh democracy that the Senedd has sat throughout the pandemic. We haven't had long periods in which Members of the Senedd have not been able to ask searching questions of the Government, to put different points. We met right through the summer, in extraordinary ways. And while, when you are in the position of trying to make decisions, and with all the demands that that brings, answering for what you do isn't always the most comfortable part of the job, I think it has been absolutely a necessary one. The Senedd has shown the strength of Welsh devolution in the way that those questions have been put and in the way that answers have been attempted to them. I hope that sense of scrutiny to which Laura Anne Jones refers certainly does go on into the next term, because there will be many other difficult and closely balanced decisions that we will want to debate and make better as a result of the conversations and the challenges that we have here.