Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm very pleased to be able to contribute to this debate, and I'm very grateful that it has been proposed. Mental health is an issue that we discuss often in the Senedd now, and that's good to see, as opposed to the situation in the past where mental health had next to no attention and was swept under the carpet. But, as I said, it's good to have an opportunity once again today, because it's by diligent work that we'll ensure that actions are taken that will, hopefully, assist people with their mental health, and I'm pleased that we once again are giving attention to mental health amongst young people in particular.

We'll support the motion today. We agree with regard to the impact that the pandemic had on the mental health of children and young people. It was an unprecedented period of anxiety about missing school work, of loneliness, of missing out on those experiences that are so important to young people, of losing support networks and so on. I'm a father to three children, and I saw that for myself amongst them. We also regret the time that far too many children and young people are having to wait for support and treatment.

The third point, then, with regard to the use of section 136 powers takes us to an area that we haven't been giving as much attention to, namely serious mental health issues and the implications of those. Looking back on the past two years while researching for today, I don't see that Ministers in Welsh Government have spoken about serious mental illness at all, and it's very important that that is given due attention.