Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Our local authorities do excellent work, but sometimes they do it with one hand tied behind their back. We've got the cabinet system in place, but it seems that there's very little support for Members to carry out scrutiny. In order to scrutinise well, they need some support of researchers, and, as far as I am aware, that is missing.

So, in terms of those people who are in charge—and we've understood quite well today that they are mostly men who are in the cabinet system in Wales—it means, therefore, that the few women that are left behind have to do the most scrutiny, with, as I say, very little support to do that. I would most certainly welcome some quotas, however we can do it, to get more women into local government. Of course, where I come from, the area that I represent, Mid and West Wales, that won’t be done through the party system because, in the majority of those local authorities, the seats are held by independents—whatever that means I've still yet to work out, but it is a fact, and it's something that we need to seriously address, in my opinion.