But I would like to start with the comments that I raised with the First Minister in the First Minister's question session that we had this afternoon. The one overriding narrative that has dominated the last 12 months has been the NHS waiting times, and the scale of that challenge has got deeper and darker as each week and each month has passed, with 700,000 people on a waiting list today here in Wales—one in five of the population—and 68,000 of those 700,000 people waiting two years of more. That is a massive challenge that this programme for government statement today, or debate today, does not do justice to in the way the First Minister's addressed it, I don't believe.

You can point to other parts of the UK that have faced the same COVID challenges that we have here in Wales, and who have actually turned the corner in their numbers. As I highlighted in First Minister's questions today, in England it went as high as 23,000, the two-year wait, but it's now down to 12,000. So, we do need a more coherent plan forward from the Welsh Government on this key issue. We do need to have confidence that the First Minister and his Government have the recruitment plans in place to rejuvenate and revitalise our NHS workforce. As I've raised with him before, such as doctors and doctor recruitment, for example, with training places required by the British Medical Association's own estimation of 200 places a year, and the First Minister acknowledging that that, potentially, could be a true figure, when in fact the Welsh Government are funding anything from 150 to 160 places for doctor training. So, this report doesn't offer us a road map in the way the Government are tackling the serious fault lines that exist within our NHS.

And only last week, I pointed out to the First Minister the Labour commitment on childcare and children in care being housed in bed and breakfasts and unregulated environments, where the BBC report highlighted that 50 children were exposed to risk and 270 children were in an unregulated accommodation setting, despite the Labour Government having this as a key requirement to phase this out as far back as 2015. It's nearly seven years ago that commitment was in place. I understand it's the Government's commitment today to do it, but that situation is still in place.

And then when we look at the cladding issues on housing, whether that be in Cardiff, Swansea, north Wales, across the whole of Wales, residents have felt left adrift by the inaction of the Welsh Government in addressing this key issue. I don't doubt the Minister's own personal commitment to this, but when you look at other parts of the United Kingdom facing up to the developers and actually using the legislative tools that they have to bring the developers to the table, so they contribute to what is their fault—not the residents', not the leaseholders' fault—and putting the remedial measures in place, this debate this afternoon does not talk to those real concerns that people are living with day in, day out, every day of the week, and that is a lack of progress directly at the door of the Welsh Government.

I fully endorse and support the actions that the Welsh Government has taken when it comes to the war in Ukraine, and the supersponsor status that the Welsh Government brought forward in April is something to be commended. However, as I pointed out to the First Minister only two weeks ago, with the First Minister suspending the current applications into the scheme, where there are still some 3,000, as I understand it from the Welsh Government's own figures, refugees waiting to come to Wales, there is a degree of pace needed to be introduced into the scheme so that it can be reopened, reactivated, and where we can house and shelter and offer that comfort blanket of security, we should be doing that. As I said, I commend the Welsh Government for what they have done on this particular agenda item, but it is critical that we get that scheme back up and running and that the energy of Government is directed to doing that.

I could talk a lot more, but I appreciate I only have five minutes to do that, which in itself doesn’t do justice to a complete programme for government debate. On the legislative statement, I did point out last week to the First Minister that, as Welsh Conservatives, we’d like to have seen an autism Bill and we’d like to have seen a British Sign Language Bill—two things that would have empowered people through the legislative process in our communities to receive real guarantees and security, having redress to the law when they feel that the actions of the provider have not been met. Sadly, we don’t see that in the legislative statement, and so clearly we could not support or endorse the progress that this motion talks about the legislative statement having. Therefore, I formally move the amendments in the name of Darren Millar on the order paper today, and I hope that they’ll be supported across the Plenary.