Diolch yn fawr iawn, Deputy Llywydd, and it's me again. I've agreed to give a minute of my time to Samuel Kurtz tonight.

Over the past few months, I've been surveying my constituents in the Vale of Clwyd to ascertain their biggest concerns, as well as their key priorities for the Senedd as we emerge from the pandemic. One of the most startling themes to emerge was the sheer number of respondents who listed access to healthcare as their No. 1 issue.

The pandemic has certainly put our health and care systems under enormous pressure, but we knew access to healthcare was a problem before COVID. Well before the novel coronavirus made an appearance in the Wuhan region of China in early 2020, our citizens were struggling to see their GPs, driving hundreds of miles to get dental treatment, or waiting years to get a hip replacement. We became used to seeing lines of ambulances stacked up outside our hospitals. Winter pressures had become year-round pressures; we were as likely to see ambulances queuing outside emergency departments on August bank holiday as we were on New Year's Day.