I will say, Cadeirydd, that that is probably the most nerve-racking thing I've ever had to say in this Chamber, and as a Welsh learner, it is very difficult sometimes for people to come forward. As Mike Hedges said, sometimes, we feel that we're going to be laughed at, that we don't say things correctly. I personally feel a bit of pride for doing that in my own national Parliament, speaking in my own national tongue, and I think it's very, very important.

I don't want to do some summing up, but it's very like what Heledd said, actually, about somebody who learned Welsh in school. It's what I did; I had a GCSE and got a B in my GCSE yn Gymraeg, and I still feel very angry about the fact that I cannot use and converse in my natural, native tongue in Wales, because I'm not confident enough to do that. I think many young people like myself of my age, about 31, have that experience, and I think where I come from, in places of mid Wales, we didn't really have the opportunity to speak the language. There are only very few communities in my patch—Ystradgynlais in the south, Sennybridge and a few places in the north—which actually do speak Welsh, and I do feel a bit sorry for them, sometimes, when I go and meet constituents there that I cannot talk with them in the language that they wish speak. That is why I'm very supportive of work that the Welsh Government has been doing to try and get more Welsh-medium schools across all parts of Wales, because I want to see Welsh-medium education in places like Brecon and Radnorshire. Because if you are going to grow the Welsh language across Wales, you need to make sure that it's going places where the language has been forgotten and pushed out, and there are places in my constituency where I'm from, around the Hay-on-Wye area, in Radnorshire particularly, we have no Welsh-medium education. If we do, it's put in mainstream with English education and pupils tend to make their choices, and they tend to want to go into the English stream and desert the Welsh stream. And then that's just not good enough. So, I want to see more Welsh-medium education being delivered right across Wales, but especially in those places where I think the language has been forgotten.

And I'm not going to speak for very long today, but I just want to say to every Welsh learner out there: I spoke in our national Parliament with all the nerves and expectation of what you should say and how to say it right and I've done it, so I encourage every Welsh learner right across Wales to siarad Cymraeg—speak in Welsh—enjoy the language. And if we all speak Welsh, I'm sure the language will grow and we'll get more Welsh speakers right across our great nation. Diolch, Cadeirydd.