A gaf i ddiolch i bawb sydd wedi cymryd rhan yn y ddadl?

I’ll thank everybody who’s taken part in the debate today. The Minister points to where she believes we are doing well. We’re right to celebrate our successes. We’re right that we should highlight successes and the achievements of great ordinary men and women in Wales across the public and the private sectors.

I’m glad to hear the Minister saying that more could be done, but I hear the echo from around Wales saying, ‘Well, do more, then’, because Government, of course, is in the position where you are able to take action. Government can set a tone for a nation. Government can set the context in which ambition and innovation, and by that I mean real ambition and innovation—. It can set the context for when that can become the norm, can become the default, and that is what I am waiting for from Government.

I’ll turn to Jeremy Miles’s comments on GVA. Thank you for focusing on GVA. You’re right that it is by no means the only measure, that it doesn’t tell the whole story, but, whilst inequalities have persisted in the UK for too long—we are in agreement on that—we have not always languished at the bottom of the pile, a point reiterated by the leader of UKIP here. I find myself in the unusual position of being in agreement with him on one comment he made, in that he believes that, if Wales were to choose to go down an independent path, it could become a successful nation. It’s tantalising, isn’t it? The difference is that I’m excited about that and he, despite making that assertion, would rather it didn’t happen. That doesn’t seem particularly logical to me.

But back to GVA: as a comparator of where we stand in comparison with others—competitors, if you like, in the positive sense of the term—it is a very useful tool; it’s very valid. I’m glad he said that we shouldn’t ignore GVA. I would remind him, of course, that the Government amendment seeks to remove our reference to GVA whilst replacing it with unemployment figures, as if that tells the whole story—I’m sure that the Member would agree with me that it doesn’t.

Thank you to Dai Lloyd, Llyr Gruffydd and Simon Thomas for going into detail about some of our proposals about where we could go in future. Thanks to Paul Davies—we will not agree always on how to reach our goal as a nation, but I am grateful for the support for our motion today and for that agreement that Government somehow needs to set a higher bar.

We need ambition and we need political will if we’re going to build on our ambition for a healthier, wealthier and well-educated Wales—that’s a phrase that reminds me of our manifesto for last year. The manifesto that Plaid Cymru stood on for the National Assembly elections was for a well-educated and wealthier Wales. We’re proud to be innovators in this party. We don’t want to have a monopoly on innovation, but we will continue to outline our positive vision to achieve that ambition. Let’s set that bar higher and let’s aim for it. Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus, bawb.