Item 4 is the 90-second statements, and the first statement is from Alun Davies. 

I'm grateful to you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Every so often, a superstar appears. Jess Fishlock is such a superstar. April the ninth marked a milestone moment, when Jess Fishlock led her country into the qualifier against Kosovo and became the first Wales player to win 150 Welsh caps. We should all congratulate here on this achievement. It means that she will have featured in 65 per cent of all Cymru games since the Welsh team were fully endorsed by the Football Association of Wales in 1993. It's an extraordinary statistic and something that she should be very, very proud of. Just a few days earlier, Jess had broken Gareth Bales' Welsh goal scoring record, as Wales beat Croatia 4-0 at Wrexham Racecourse. 

Both achievements are testament to an exceptional player who has raised the bar and inspired all around her since making her international debut at the age of 16. There isn't a player more deserving to hold these records, because it's not just that she's a superstar at home in Wales, but globally as well. And it's not just her skills on the field that make her such an inspiration to a younger generation of players, but it's also her advice and her attitude. She's a global superstar who has never forgotten her Welsh roots. But she's done more than that. She's supported and helped the LGBTQ+ community on and off the pitch. When she was awarded her MBE, it was to women's football and to the LGBT community, and she was named the Stonewall sports champion as well in December 2020. We should all join together and congratulate Jess Fishlock on what she has achieved for Wales and for the community she represents. Thank you.

Some would say that the expression 'ahead of their time' is used far too often, but, surely, few would argue that it isn’t a worthy description of Zonia Bowen who passed away recently. Like so many of the people who make a special contribution to our nation, Zonia was born outside Wales, namely in Norfolk in 1926. She came here to study French at Bangor University, but it was with the Welsh language and Wales itself that she fell in love following her arrival. Zonia studied Breton too, and she was the first person ever to publish textbooks on learning Breton through the medium of Welsh. 

Freedom and independence were a golden thread throughout all of Zonia’s work, and, under her leadership, the Women’s Institute branch of Parc, near Bala, gained its freedom from the WI, because the organisation refused to allow the women of Parc to administer the branch through the medium of Welsh. Those women went on to establish an organisation that has become such an inextricable part of Welsh language culture, namely Merched y Wawr, and Zonia was the organisation’s first national secretary, as well as the first editor of its special magazine, Y Wawr. Zonia campaigned against the burial of nuclear waste in Wales in the 1980s under the banner of the Madryn campaign, and she was secretary of Cyngor Dyneiddwyr Cymru for a time too.

Zonia wasn’t a traditional woman, nor did she live a traditional life. She went against the grain and refused to accept that 'this is how it is, and this is how it has to be'. Thank you, Zonia.

Well, it gives me great pleasure to offer my congratulations to Wrexham football club, of course, which has secured promotion to league one of the English league this week. And what a way to secure that promotion: scoring six goals against Forest Green Rovers at the Racecourse, a ground that is, of course, now, once again, a venue for international games.

Now, Barcelona football club has a saying: mes que un club, more than a club. And that’s, of course, exactly what we have in Wrexham now: a team for the whole of north Wales, a team that packs out the Racecourse every week, with plans afoot to build a new stand to meet the demand from the thousands of new fans enchanted by the story. This is Wales’s oldest professional football club, and the third oldest in the world, playing at the oldest international ground in the world too. A club with history.

But this is a club, of course, that almost ceased to exist due to the mismanagement of certain greedy individuals. It's a club that was saved by its supporters, who were then generous enough to place the club in the care of two actors, who admitted that they knew very little about football, namely Rob McElhenny and Ryan Reynolds. And that faith has paid dividends, hasn't it? After 15 years outside the league, they secured promotion last year to league two, and this year they’ve triumphed once again. 

Wrexham football club has always been at the heart of the local community and north Wales more widely. The attention brought by the new owners and the television series means that supporters worldwide are now part of this extraordinary journey. Only a month ago, a group of supporters from Patagonia came over for the first time and received a very warm welcome by the club and the fans.

It's more than a football club. The success is very much deserved after such a difficult period. When the supporters sing 'Yma o hyd'—we’re still here—there is real passion behind the words, 'er gwaetha pawb a phopeth'—despite everyone and everything. And, hopefully, we’ll see more success in coming seasons. I’m sure that all Members of the Senedd would wish to congratulate Wrexham at the end of such a successful season and, of course, wish them all the very best for the season to come.