That’s why this Chamber needs post-legislative scrutiny of this Act. We need to reform it. We need to give it some teeth. We need to give it some enforceability. Give it a chance to make a real change for the people of Wales, so that we can use this Act to better ourselves, to better our communities, and to better our environment.

This must become the focal point of how to fix the future generations Act and make it worthy of the lavish praise it has received. This is a chance, a real chance for us here in Wales to influence our future, and the future of our world. We can lead the way. We can show other nations how to protect our communities, our environment, and how to make sustainable development the cornerstone of our governance. And I hope that there is appetite to do this, to give the Act some teeth, to enable it to flower to its full potential.

When I questioned the Counsel General, Mick Antoniw, recently here in Plenary on the Act, he said these words:

'I think, with all legislation, once it has been in force for a while, it does need to be reviewed.'

Well, this is certainly true about the future generations Act, and that review needs to happen sooner rather than later. It needs to empower the Act. It needs to ensure that we can not only enshrine future thinking into every decision by public bodies, but that we can also hold public bodies to account when they fail to do so. Diolch yn fawr.