Llywydd, I agree with a great deal of what Joel James has just said. As I've explained a number of times on the floor of the Chamber, the NHS continues to have to deal with the COVID impact, with just under 1,000 members of staff not in work today; around 600 to 700 of them are actually ill with COVID themselves and around 300 or so are not in work because they've been in contact with somebody. All of that happens at short notice. And when you're dealing with 1,000, the sudden inability of people to be in the workplace undoubtedly makes the business of managing the workforce, and the impact on patients that flows from it, a challenge.

I recognise the points that the Member makes about some of the factors that pull people into working as locums or in agency arrangements because of the additional flexibility that that allows them, over and above people who are on fixed-term contracts. During the pandemic, we were able to introduce some short-term flexibilities into the way people manage their annual leave, with greater carry-overs and paying people for annual leave days when they simply weren't able to take them. But, I'll ask my officials to look carefully at the points the Member has made this afternoon in case there's anything further that we may be able to draw from them.