Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. 

What is the purpose of a power? Why have we in Plaid Cymru used our first debate of the sixth Senedd to talk about our legislature's remit? Well, a power is a vehicle. It proffers the ability to do something. It offers the capacity to change. In our motion, we set out wide-ranging areas where, if we do not gain these powers from Westminster, we will regress, because the powers have to exist somewhere and if they're not here, they will lie with Westminster. Westminster, which might shortly only boast 32 Welsh MPs, a 20 per cent decrease—a figure that I doubt is matched in any other example in the world in terms of loss of representation. Dirprwy Lywydd, when I was preparing for this debate, I found out that the last time that the number of Welsh MPs was changed to 32 was in 1832, the year of the Great Reform Act, when our seats increased to that number. Now, in 1831, the population of Wales was 904,312. Since then, our population has increased by over 248 per cent. And yet we will be left with the same level of representation as at the start. In 1832, they had to deal with rotten boroughs; today, we have to deal with rotten Boris. 

If this Senedd does not hold the powers our motion sets out, those powers will not disappear. There is no vacuum. They will reside in Westminster, where there will be fewer MPs to scrutinise. We will have no power and no voice—a new era not of great reform, but of great regression.