Thank you, Chair. We're today asking the Welsh Government to support Welsh nurses. We're asking the Senedd to support our statement that nurses deserve fair pay for their work, and we ask Ministers to use all levers possible in order to make an improved pay offer to nurses.

We are facing a nurses' strike for the very first time. Nurses, who are carers by nature as well as by profession, have made the most difficult decision possible to take industrial action because they feel that they have no other option. We are asking the whole Senedd to support the motion. We will support the second amendment, calling on the Government to come back to the table for discussion. The First Minister said last week: