Thank you, Minister, and happy St David’s Day to everyone, for tomorrow, too. Unfortunately, it’s not a national bank holiday, as it should be, but we still very much hope for that. Sam Kurtz obviously agrees, so please persuade your Government in the UK to allow us to have a bank holiday. Hopefully, if there’s another Government after the next general election, they will allow us here in Wales to have a bank holiday to celebrate St David’s Day.

Now, you’ve noted, of course, the host of things that are happening in terms of celebrating St David’s Day, but we also have to recognise that it’s a number of volunteers that are driving this at the moment, and we are missing opportunities, important opportunities, and we should be providing more support and promoting what’s available, in the same way as other nations can take advantage of national holidays.

I'm pleased to see the Minister referring to Wales as a community of communities, which was central, of course, to the vision of Gwynfor Evans, and Plaid Cymru has a vision of Wales as a community of interconnected communities that are robust, prosperous, healthy and environmentally sound, which includes ensuring that the ability to learn and use the Welsh language is open to everyone, whatever their circumstances.

It’s therefore good to hear of the Government’s ambitions in terms of co-ordinating the social justice work with the work of promoting the Welsh language. It’s important to acknowledge that promoting the Welsh language is a social justice issue, and there’s a strong relationship, therefore, between the different portfolios. However, there is a need to see specific targets going hand in hand with these objectives, and the truth is, as was demonstrated at the end of last year with the census results, that the objectives of 'Cymraeg 2050' are further away now than they were when those objectives were originally set.

For the second decade on the trot, the percentage of Welsh speakers has declined, reaching the lowest ever level of 17.8 per cent. This equates to almost 24,000 fewer Welsh speakers as compared to 10 years ago, and a loss of 44,000, which equates to the population of Merthyr Tydfil, since 2001. This should also be considered in the context of the fact that only around 20 per cent of our children are currently in Welsh-medium education. It’s difficult, therefore, to see how the Government’s aim of having an