As I was saying, the UK Government relies far too heavily on the RAB mechanism for funding these things, which adds costs to customer bills, rather than on general taxation. It is regressive and it places a disproportionate burden on those who can least bear it, which in itself slows progress towards the energy system we need. A different model of investment is desperately required. But instead of reforming these important areas within their responsibility, the UK Government spent the whole of last year fighting like cats in a sack as they ran the UK economy into the ground—there's no getting away from that; that's what they did—only occasionally pausing to play up to the right-wing press by taking an opportunity to pick fights with anyone else they could find—desperate people fleeing conflict or essential workers to whom we all owe so much and who you were very pleased to clap for, but not so pleased to pay for, I notice. 

So, I welcome the motion's acknowledgement of the importance of the thousands of jobs to be gained in the marine sector and the importance of free ports, now that we have successfully campaigned for the UK Government to acknowledge the need for a level-playing field, as acknowledged by Rhun in his contribution. But I also wonder if the Conservative Party, in your closing remarks, will acknowledge and apologise for the thousands of jobs lost in the last few months as a result of your breathtaking incompetence and the obsession with taking chunks out of each other instead of taking charge of the green revolution that you all claim to aspire to. 

You also might want to explain why the hundreds of millions of pounds of EU funds that we invested in marine energy have not been replaced in full, or even acknolwedge that they haven't been replaced at all. So, I hope the Conservatives, in closing this debate today, will take the opportunity for once to speak up for the interests of Wales. Perhaps they might let us know what representations they have made and will be making to their UK counterparts on those areas of their responsibilities in enabling a green energy revolution. And to help you out, I’d like to suggest you join with us today in calling on the UK Government to invest in all Welsh ports, to enable them to maximise the opportunities for the deployment of offshore renewables, to work with us on addressing the UK-wide supply chain gaps, and transfer further powers relating to offshore consenting, energy storage and the Crown Estate. Those three modest and potentially rapid actions would finally show that UK Government is indeed taking the opportunities in this sector seriously, and would further advance the ambitions for Wales shared right across this Chamber.

And finally, I would like to commend the bravery of the Welsh Conservatives for bringing forward this motion, as their UK counterparts preside over the deterioration of the energy system and wider economy and open coal mines—I ask you, coal mines. I would urge you to be even more courageous and ask your UK counterparts to call a UK general election, so that we can have the Government we need for a greener, fairer, and, frankly, functioning Government. Diolch.