May I take this opportunity to congratulate the Minister on her appointment? I look forward to working closely with her to try to influence as best I can the major decisions that remain to be made, of course, as the pandemic continues. It has been interesting to hear some of the comments made by Dominic Cummings today, who stated that the UK Government had made disastrous mistakes in dealing with the pandemic. It's important to remember that the Welsh Government had committed to working on a four-nations level on many of those decisions, so it's important to remember that there are still lessons to be learnt in order to make the best decisions.

Turning straight away to the regulations in front of us, we support them all but there are several comments that do need to be made, I think. Amendments 6 and 7 take us back to the end of March, beginning of April—8 and 9 take us forward a few weeks, but it's important that we note that these are amendments that were announced during an election period, with the changes coming into force as late as three days before the election. I don't need to spend much time discussing the significance of that—nobody from any political party could deny the potential for announcements of that kind to influence democratic processes. But it's important to mention this, because, if we were somehow to find ourselves in a similar situation again, we need to ensure that we learn all kinds of lessons from our experiences of the past year, and that includes democratic lessons as well as more practical lessons on how to deal with a pandemic. 

Amendment 10—this is more contemporary. Even then, we're talking about regulations that are almost a fortnight old, and I'll make an appeal here, early on in this new parliamentary term, for the Government, in collaboration with the Business Committee, to seek every way to try to (1) make announcements in the Senedd so that we can discuss them immediately, and (2) to accelerate the timetable for discussing changes and amendments to the regulations that are so important. How many times have we discussed regulations that have already come to an end before they came before the Senedd to be approved to be introduced in the first instance? 

Now, there are a number of other points that I want to make. I'm going to put them in a letter to you as well, Minister, to have a fuller response, but given it's taken many months for the Government to respond to some enquiries—almost a year for one enquiry that I've made—I want to go through them just to put them on the record today so that you hear them from me directly. In terms of where we are in general, we are all very pleased that we are in a positive position in terms of the number of cases and that the vaccination process is moving ahead well. I'm very indebted to everyone who is part of that process, of course. I do ask you to seek every way of lifting more restrictions as soon as possible, but of course only when it's safe to do so, and we know that we need to be watchful in terms of the growth in the variant from India.

So, I want to know, in that context, what kinds of steps will be taken to respond to any sudden growth and to try to prevent a third wave. Will there be intensive vaccination programmes, local restrictions, travel restrictions to and from areas of high incidence, for example? And also, with the clear evidence that the virus is spread in an airborne way, I would like to know what steps are being taken to respond to that evidence, including the provision of FFP3 masks for healthcare workers who are in contact with COVID patients, and also I'd like a report specifically on the potential of introducing ultra-violet UVC light, which could be so useful in settings such as schools, for example, to disinfect.

There are a number of other points and I will put them, as I say, in a letter to you. We need to know, for example, what steps will be taken to allow things such as parkruns to happen in due course—sporting events that are so beneficial for body and mind. I will make a last-minute appeal here for you to allow supporters to watch Caernarfon against Newtown on Saturday. These things can be done safely. Please do everything that you can in that regard. There will be letters from Heledd Fychan and Luke Fletcher on economic matters on top of the health matters that I want to raise, but in my brief I want to know much more from the Government about the steps to get to grips with long COVID, which is such a concern for people. It's a long list of questions. 

To conclude, I note that this is of course the first time for me to be able to raise some of these issues in the new Senedd since before dissolution, but as I say, I don't expect full answers now. They will come in written form very soon, hopefully. But it's a measure, isn't it, of the work that is ahead of you as a new Minister—I wish you well—and it's also a measure of the work that is ahead of all of us as a Senedd to hold you and the Government to account.