Diolch, Llywydd. I rise to speak to amendments 41 and 55. Amendment 41 is an amalgamation of two separate amendments that I'd laid at Stage 2. It's also drafted to attempt to require the Government to do some of the things that it's indicated it would do in an explanatory memorandum. The amendment seeks to strengthen, that is, what the Government has indicated it would like to do; it would, I believe, strengthen the provision.

The amendment seeks to address two of the principal stumbling blocks to the effective implementation of this Bill, as I see it, namely, the relative unaffordability of more sustainable products and the lack of awareness about the bad effects that plastic litter has. My aim is to place a requirement in the Bill for the Welsh Government to establish the oversight project board and advisory panel, which is referenced in the explanatory memorandum. The amendment would require both the affordability of reusable products—those products that may replace those that are prohibited—and also to advise on education and promotion of the prohibition. It would, again, ensure that these things were on the face of the Bill.

To deal with the affordability issue firstly, we've talked in committee at great length when taking evidence on this Bill about how challenging it will be to compel households that are struggling financially to spend more money on products because they're more environmentally friendly. We all want to do the right thing, but in a cost-of-living crisis, the more expensive products will make that all the more difficult. So, I'd want to see these groups, the oversight board and the advisory panel, tackling this very difficult issue and trying to make progress.

Secondly, on the provision relating to education and promotion, this is an attempt to overcome yet another thorny issue—that is the lack of awareness about the impacts of plastic littering and the fact that ingrained habits are hard to kick. Compelling people to do things is one tool, but persuading them that they would want to be part of the solution as well, I think that's far more powerful—educating people, rather than only criminalising their actions is also a more socially just way of tackling the problem. Now, the Government has gone a long way to providing for these issues, and I recognise and acknowledge that, but these amendments would require these boards to be established, and for that requirement to be, again, on the face of the Bill, I think that's cleaner, I think that's a straightforward way of doing it, and I hope that that would help ensure that the very good intention does certainly come to fruition, and I hope that they will receive support. Diolch.