Peter Fox spoke very powerfully on this need for local food plans, and I welcome that idea very warmly. Peredur Owen Griffiths and Jenny Rathbone highlighted this problem of people not being able to afford the fuel to cook their food, and the importance of changing our relationship with food. It's difficult to believe, isn't it, that, with the UK being one of the most wealthy nations in the world, many people have difficulty in affording food, and their health suffers as a result of that.

I'm the granddaughter of a miner, and they were on strike in 1926, and I've heard the stories about the hardship and food shortages at that time from my grandmother. It's difficult to believe that, almost a century later—many people mentioned this—we are talking about a level of need that requires that community collaboration that kept the families of workers from starvation in the 1920s and 1930s.

I volunteer with my local foodbank, The Pantry, in Pontardawe, and the way the community comes together to try and ensure that people have enough to eat is inspiring. We're not criticising foodbanks in any way whatsoever, but in reality their existence in this day and age is repulsive.

Our motion talks about the right to food, and Huw Irranca-Davies spoke powerfully about this, and the importance of the fact that it is a right and how governments and political leaders have failed in their duty to support that right. Since devolution, Wales has often taken pride in the bold steps that it has taken in terms of rights, such as children's rights, which we heard mentioned in this Chamber yesterday. One of the United Nations' global sustainable development goals is to eradicate famine by 2030, an aim that is acknowledged by this Government in its supplementary report to the UK's voluntary national review of progress towards the sustainable development goals and the statement that we in Wales are doing things differently is lauded in that report. The foreword, in the name of Mark Drakeford and Jane Hutt, notes that the UN's sustainable development goals set out an ambitious agenda for transforming the world for people, the planet and prosperity.

'We share this ambition in Wales and we are committed to making our contribution to the goals', states our First Minister and our Minister for Social Justice and equalities. Bearing in mind that commitment, the Welsh Government needs to ensure that the right to food is an integral part of policies across Government that tackle poverty and economic deprivation.

I want to remind you once again why this is so crucial, by repeating what we note in our motion, namely that a quarter of the people of Wales are living in poverty and the use of foodbanks is increasing, and food insecurity is having a detrimental impact on the health and well-being of our people. And yes, food insecurity is a matter of public health protection. We've heard from Peredur Owen Griffiths how this can have a detrimental impact on the health of older people, and that those who experience food insecurity are more likely to keep food for longer and eat food where it's gone beyond the date where it's safe to eat. This, along with going without food or eating an unbalanced diet, can, of course, emerge from poverty and puts people at risk of malnutrition, food poisoning and ill health. How many times over the past few months have we heard references in this Chamber to the perfect storm of diminishing income and increasing living costs, to the tsunami of need that is gradually emerging and is about to hit too many of our households? The link between food prices increasing as people's income declines is clear for all to see, and the way in which food is part of this worrying equation is central to our debate this afternoon. It is known that nutrition in diet reduces as these factors emerge, and as that happens, the likelihood of ill health increases, as well as the negative impact on existing medical conditions, as Peredur mentioned.

In conclusion, therefore, I urge you to support our demands on the UK Government and the Welsh Government to commit to deliver their most fundamental duty: to feed their people and to put tackling poverty at the top of every agenda. One can't deny that there is something very wrong with our society. We must ensure that there is no barrier to people enjoying the most fundamental of their human rights—the right to food. Thank you.