Minister, can I thank you for bringing forward today's statement and also for meeting with the north Wales MSs yesterday? I appreciate you taking that time. But I'd still like to echo the comments made by colleagues from across the Chamber, first and foremost, because, as outlined by them already, it's clear that the executive team of Betsi Cadwadladr University Health Board are not delivering the aims of the Welsh Government or were delivering on the aims of the independent members of the board. They're continuing to fail the people of north Wales, and we cannot continue to see this happen. As you'll be aware, and has already been highlighted, we are probably 10 years down the line now of these consistent failures, eight years of which would have been in special measures if the special measures would have continued as they should have done. It's no exaggeration when we talk about this being a life-and-death situation. People's lives are on the line with the health service in north Wales. It's my residents' quality of life that is suffering as a result of poor management of the health board in north Wales. It's my residents that I care about most in this situation.

Minister, you've mentioned that you don't have, you believe, the levers that you need to be able to make the changes that you want to see, so I'd be interested to hear when you think you may get those levers that you need in your capacity as health Minister to rectify this poor situation. In addition to this, Minister, it's clear that politicians from across the political spectrum want to work with the health board to improve the situation for our residents in north Wales. We don't want to stand up here week in, week out saying how bad things are, we want to stand here and be proud of the health service that we have in north Wales. We want to see change happen desperately for our residents in north Wales. So, Minister, how do you believe we can work more closely together to better serve our residents, not just through scrutiny and challenge in this Chamber, which we continue to do and seemingly continue to be ignored as we highlight the issues that we see in north Wales? What structures do you think could be put in place to better enable us as locally elected Members to support and scrutinise the work of the board to help to have the change that we all want to see? Diolch yn fawr iawn.