Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm pleased to have the opportunity to open this important debate on behalf of Plaid Cymru, and I'd like to ask my fellow Members to seriously consider voting in favour of our motion this afternoon.

In responding to Adam Price's question here yesterday, we heard the First Minister talking about people's right in Wales to be treated in a way that is fair and compassionate. For those of us who sit in the Senedd, we disagree on many things, but I hope, and I believe, that we are agreed that there is a fundamental principle that unites us, namely that the people of Wales deserve to live with dignity, with support when it is needed, with sufficient funds to support them. I urge you to keep this principle above everything else and keep it in mind during today's debate, above your party political allegiance, and that we as a Senedd show that we can agree on a motion that would announce this clearly and ambiguously for the people of Wales. Universal credit is supposed to support those on the lowest incomes, who are out of work or who can't work. The universal credit payment was uplifted by £20 by the UK Government in response to the COVID crisis, and despite that increase being extended once, it will be cut now at the beginning of October. That, as well as the cut to working tax credit, will create a dangerous pressure on families in Wales. We must oppose this decision, this unwise decision.