Again, I'd like to thank all Members and the Chairman, Jack Sargeant, for their work, and all those who have contributed to this report, and that's what we're here today to discuss. I know that committee report findings aren't always unanimous, and that greyhound racing itself is a topic that arouses strong views and very passionate opinions. As a Member of the Senedd, it's fair to say I too have an overriding passion for animal welfare, and, as a former Petitions Committee Chair, I'm no stranger to measures and legislation that have come about as a result of the Petitions Committee—new laws made here in Wales. But I'd also like to make it clear that today is, as Delyth has mentioned, the start of a process, I would imagine, because today we're about voting that we support or note the findings of the report. That's what we're here for today. We're not here today to vote to ban greyhound racing, or to support greyhound racing. I don't want to be seen to disappoint those campaigners who have fought so hard to get us where we are today.

Now, the committee has taken evidence from a wide number of animal welfare organisations. Since April 2018, Hope Rescue and their rescue partners have taken in almost 200 surplus greyhounds from the one track in Wales, 40 of which sustained injury. While the track in Wales chooses not to disclose injury and death data to the public, 22,767 injuries were documented, including 1,026 track fatalities, at UK licensed facilities from 2017 to 2021.

And isn't it awful, when we're talking about a living, sentient animal, when we talk about 'wastage'? And there are levels of wastage from the industry, in the licensed racing industry—. By the age of just three and a half years old, 50 per cent of greyhounds registered to race have left. Ninety per cent of greyhounds are no longer racing by five years of age, and around 6,000 greyhounds leave the licensed industry each year, many of which then need to find new homes. This leaves charities and animal rescue organisations to pick up the pieces—