Diolch, Lywydd, a llongyfarchiadau.

Can I add my thanks to both Rosemary Butler and to David Melding for the times that they were in the Chair during the last Assembly? I’ve come to this fifth Assembly, like John, having been here since 1999, but having grown up with the devolution journey, having grown up being frustrated with the devolution journey on the way, but nevertheless having seen this institution become very much part and parcel of the people of Wales’s legislative programme, but also a way in which we now in Wales can do things differently and separately.

I’d like to echo what John has said. You will all know my frustration, but you’ll also know that I’m an independent-minded person—you’d better ask the front row about how independent minded I was in the last Assembly or Assemblies before—but I have always thought that there is a place here for people who can develop those ideas, develop those skills and be fair to backbenchers. I think John and I both feel that as backbenchers.

I want to develop the women in political life and the Women in Public Life that the former Presiding Officer took—. But I also want to see—. We’re under-represented for people with disabilities and I think we still have a long way to go in the field of disability in accessing people with disabilities—actually allowing them to come forward and play their role in society.

So, I’m asking for support today. I’ve done 17 years. I feel that now is the time for me to come and support the Presiding Officer in changing this fifth Assembly, which will be different. Each one has been different. And I think that this is the time now for me to say: I think I’ve got some new ideas, I’ve got some independent ideas, but I want to listen to all your ideas as well and I want to take them forward together, collectively, as an Assembly, as an institution, but, above all, while remembering that the people of Wales are there and we should be there to serve them. Diolch yn fawr iawn.