Thank you, Minister, for bringing forward today's statement. As I highlighted to you last week, Minister, I recently contacted 69 NHS dentists in north Wales. I spoke to 57 of those practices last week, and it was just four who were taking on, but those four had huge waiting lists. What that highlighted to me is the significant challenge that my residents face in accessing an NHS dentist in north Wales.

Minister, I do welcome efforts being made to recruit more dentists. I certainly welcome those efforts being made, along with the trials of the use of the mobile dental units at schools, which, as my colleagues mentioned, could be cost-effective and certainly help reduce those waiting lists. But like others in the Chamber here today, I take particular exception to parts of your statement, and I quote, where you say,

'Private healthcare is an established and acceptable alternative,' and you go on to say,

'in reality some will prefer to go private, creating a divided market.'

Just to be really clear from my side, and my residents, this is not something that most of my residents would prefer to do; it's something that they have to do because they cannot access those NHS dentists. What my residents would prefer is to be able to access NHS dentists, because they pay their national insurance, they pay their income tax, they pay their taxes, and they expect to get healthcare free at the point of service as a result of that. So, in light of this, Minister, and in light of your statement here today, do you think the measures you've highlighted here today will go far enough to address the concerns that my residents have in being able to access an NHS dentist?