Minister, can I thank you for your statement and the advance copy today, and also for the briefing that you provided to Health and Social Care Committee Members with your officials? That was helpful this morning as well. I agree with you, Minister; there's huge concern here, because there's so much uncertainty and we know that omicron is fast becoming the dominant strain across the UK and in Wales. Of course, I agree that increasing the vaccination programme has to be the priority and the vaccination programme has to be rapidly expanded.

Can I just ask you a few questions about your measures to increase take-up? Can I just ask about messaging, first of all? Because the First Minister, in his statement yesterday evening and today—the message is, 'Get your booster, and make that your priority'. But for many people across Wales, that's not particularly the issue, because they're ready; they're ready to get their booster. I think the question is how they can do that. For many people, despite the messaging that it's a priority, it's a case of sit and wait until you get your invite. That's the reality here. So, that's some of the messaging issues that I just wanted to raise with you around that. Because I'd imagine anyone in this virtual Senedd today feels the same way. I'm ready to drop everything to get my booster jab. I just want to know how I'm going to find out where I'm going to get it, when I'm going to know, what I should do and by what date if I haven't had my invite. So, if those are the questions of myself and Members in this virtual Chamber this afternoon, those are going to be the questions from people across Wales. I think that's the important element here in terms of meeting the targets that you've set out—the ambitious targets that you've set out to get all adults being offered the invite by the end of the year.

In terms of other measures on take-up as well, in your briefing today, you talked about plans for increasing opening hours. You spoke about that in your statement today, but I don't think you mentioned the times. I think in the briefing today, if I'm right, you mentioned increasing opening times from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Can I suggest that for many people, they can attend before 9 a.m. if that's appropriate? Many people can attend beyond 8 p.m. So, can I ask you to perhaps reconsider longer opening times? Because I would suggest that it's very difficult to meet your target if the opening times aren't extended any further.

Hand in hand with that question, of course, is volunteers as well. You've talked about working with the third sector, which I welcome. Can you now launch a Wales-wide recruitment campaign for volunteers? Because surely that needs to happen with some urgency. Can I ask you what your plans are in terms of filling gaps when people don't turn up, sadly, for appointments? It's very frustrating, I know. But when people don't turn up, what are the plans for filling in those appointments with a shorter time span?

You said in your statement that emerging data has revealed that two doses of the vaccine are not enough to protect us against omicron. Can you just clarify whether this is only related to AstraZeneca, or both vaccinations? And how much of a role does time since having a jab play in defending yourself against this new variant? Can I also ask about what plans you have in terms of cancelling planned operations? You spoke a little about that today as well. I'm just concerned because one in five people across Wales are already on a waiting list, so what efforts are you making to prevent waiting lists spiralling further in this regard, and what progress is being made on surgical hubs, as I've outlined previously?

And finally, there seems to be some positive data, early data, showing that death rates in South Africa have significantly fallen in the last few days, so I wonder what assessment has been made from other areas of the world where the new variant is significantly advanced that brings some hope and encouragement that can be drawn from that data.