Thank you to the Minister for your statement this afternoon. We will be supporting these regulations today, as these regulations are in regard to easing restrictions.

Unfortunately, the latest three-weekly review has once again failed to address the social care sector. To quote a Denbighshire care home owner, 'Older people are often forgotten and pushed to the bottom of the priority list'. The First Minister's written statement on the review of Welsh COVID regulations only mentions the care sector in passing, to say that care home residents and staff would begin getting booster jabs this week. The care sector is responsible for looking after the most vulnerable people in our society. We shut down whole swathes of our economy to protect those very people, those most vulnerable to COVID. Now that we have effective vaccines and can once again open up to return to some form of normal life, it's not an excuse to forget about those in care once again.

We are vaccinating teenagers and rolling out third doses, yet we still have over 9 per cent of staff in care homes yet to have their second dose, and this cannot be down to vaccine hesitancy or anti-vax disinformation. One thousand two hundred and sixty three members of staff working in our care homes have had a first dose but not a second, yet a single dose can offer protection against catching and spreading the virus, but not as much as two doses or even three. It's little wonder that care home providers are deeply concerned about their liability and why they are desperately calling for Welsh Government to extend the indemnity enjoyed by the NHS to the care sector. During the last Senedd, Welsh Government introduced legislation to protect the NHS from liability claims. They need to ensure the care sector enjoys similar protections, particularly in light of the pandemic and chronic staff shortages. I hope the Minister will address these points during the course of the next three weeks. Thank you very much.