Thank goodness we haven't faced a shortage of people wanting to become nurses, to come into the profession. We've actually seen an increase, a positive increase, in nursing student places in Wales in every year bar one, I think, of the past decade. On its own, that is great news, but it's a leaking dam. Yes, we've more coming into nursing, but numbers leaving are undoing that, and the exodus shows no sign of slowing down.

With an underpaid workforce that's also overworked, it's a recipe for even more attrition. Every week, nurses give the NHS in Wales an additional 67,000 hours of work. That's equivalent to 1,800 nurses. This isn't sustainable. So, yes, retention is perhaps a greater challenge than recruitment, but, of course, bringing in new nurses remains crucial. Let me ask the Minister one specific question around that. A few years ago, Welsh Government did consider removing the bursary, which is such an important element of being able to attract people into nursing. We, in opposition, and the RCN, and all those who saw the value of the bursary, succeeded in persuading the Minister at the time not to scrap it, and that was to be welcomed. Can this current Minister confirm unequivocally now that there is no plan to remove or undermine that bursary, that this payment will continue to play an important part in attracting and supporting nurses through their training? Without it, the crisis deepens even further.