Thank you very much, Llywydd, and Plaid Cymru is pleased to co-submit this motion. It's very important that there is cross-party support here, and I do appeal to Members on the Labour benches to support the motion.

Let me take you back to August, the Bull pub in Llannerch-y-medd. And I don't know how exactly to describe the community extravaganza of the sheep shearing. There was a fair there, there was a party, an auction, and £50,000 was raised in one afternoon and evening, and all of that funding donated to the air ambulance. Why? Because everybody appreciates this service and what it means to our more rural communities, in that case. Certainly, it's a service for all parts of Wales, the urban and the rural, but one of the major drivers behind the service and its establishment was the fact that there are so many parts of Wales that are long distances from hospitals, difficult to reach with ambulances, or a long way from specialist care.

Over time, the service grew: one, two, three, then four helicopters, with the inception of EMRTS teams transforming things further, and now this is a service provided in all parts of Wales, all parts covered by helicopters, with Caernarfon and Welshpool serving the north-east, the north-west and mid Wales. But now that's under threat. The intention is to close those two sites, Caernarfon and Welshpool, and to move to one site in central north Wales, and I fear that that will be a mistake if it happens. Why is this even being proposed? Well, quite simply, according to EMRTS, more people will be reached, a higher number, and more calls will be responded to by the air ambulance teams—by air or with their response vehicles. Because of course this is a service that works in two ways—on-road vehicles as well as helicopters. But I fear that it's a matter of hitting a statistical target, that that's what we have here, rather than considering the true purpose of the air ambulance service. If it's possible to reach more people—and EMRTS say that that's the case—and to deliver against that statistical ambition, well, I fear that it'll be through serving more people in the more populated areas of the north-east at the expense of the population in the more rural areas. Now, as I said, this is a service for all parts of Wales, and it's important that EMRTS can reach as many people as possible in the north-east too. So, isn't the solution to provide a team with a road vehicle in that area, a team that could reach a very wide area quickly, with helicopters still being available, of course, from their current bases, if needs be?

Now, in closing Caernarfon and Welshpool, it's not just the aircraft that would disappear, the vehicles would be gone too, and you don't need an expert on Welsh geography to realise that trying to serve the north of Anglesey, the far end of the Llŷn peninsula, south Meirionnydd or Powys from Rhuddlan with a vehicle as an emergency service is never going to work.