Minister, can I thank you for your statement today and begin by recognising the efforts made by those boards members who've departed, regardless of the situation facing BCUHB, as amongst those members are some of the most respected and competent individuals in north Wales?

The statement you've made today indicates that further change is to come. We've heard that you wish to fundamentally change organisational culture, that the new directly appointed board members will review executive leadership arrangements, and that yesterday's action was the first step in what will be a series of significant changes. And I therefore infer that we will see huge change potentially within the executive team, possibly further into middle management. 

Minister, you've also been very clear on your position concerning structural change, but in order to realise cultural change within the organisation, will you commit to an extensive and genuine exercise in engaging with the citizens of north Wales to ascertain what the people of region want from any future arrangements? Will you also examine the possibility of allowing the people in north Wales to directly elect board members, in order to make independent members fully accountable to the region's citizens? 

And finally, would it be possible, not necessarily today, for the Government to set out the circumstances that would trigger structural change? I ask this because being clear that failure could lead to structural change should certainly focus minds. Diolch.