We in Plaid Cymru will be supporting this important Bill because of the progress it represents in reforming our democracy in Wales, and the main focus of the Bill, of course, in terms of automatic voter registration, as the Counsel General outlined, which will ensure that our democracy can represent the views of our citizens more effectively. We also welcome some other aspects of the Bill that the Counsel General referred to, namely the attempt to ensure greater diversity within our democratic system, at a Welsh Parliament and local government level, and that, once again, so as to ensure that our democracy can reflect the whole of society, and also to create and tailor individual schemes or plans to address lack of representation in terms of some important sections of society. So, I welcome those positive elements.

We are disappointed, as was mentioned by Peter Fox, that there were some amendments that weren't accepted by the Government, for example, those related to accessibility, particularly the ability of blind people, for example, to participate in the democratic process in an equal manner. We are also very disappointed with the Government's rejection of putting the electoral system on an equal footing in terms of language, and making the electoral system subject to the Welsh language standards, and we still hope that the Government will change its view on that.

There were a number of other issues that were brought forward during the scrutiny process, for example, an effort to use the powers that we have to regulate the possible negative impacts of artificial intelligence, deepfake videos, and so on. Lee Waters has put forward some comments on this based on the seminar that he participated in in Singapore recently. I do very much hope that this will be an issue that we can return to in due course, and if there isn't action on a UK-wide level, we should certainly use the powers that we have to regulate our own democracy here in Wales.

I welcome the amendments that the Government had accepted. I would have liked to have seen greater engagement and a greater willingness to collaborate, to reflect the fact that the Government doesn't have a majority in this place. We will be supporting this Stage 4 motion, but without the support of some opposition parties at this point, this Bill would fall. So, I do think that we need to improve the way that we do collaborate on a cross-party basis across the Senedd, to reflect the arithmetic of our democracy, and that no single party, including the party of Government, has monopoly on truth or good ideas.

I should make reference, as the Counsel General and Peter Fox did, to one of the great topics of discussion during the course of this Bill, this issue of deception, which is a crucially important issue, not only for our democracy here in Wales, but on a global level too. We look forward now to co-operating on a cross-party basis as we take this idea and implement it by means of the Bill that was mentioned in the legislative programme earlier this afternoon.

It is important that we do address the lack of trust in our politics, because we are facing a challenge and a crisis in democracy, indeed. We saw the lowest percentage that's participated in a general election in Wales—only 56 per cent—so we do face challenges in terms of strengthening our democracy. I would say that it's only through the cross-party co-operative spirit, everyone bringing their own ideas forward, and everyone trying to work together in order to reach the aim that I'm sure we all share, having the most lively democracy possible in Wales—. In that spirit, we will be supporting the Bill at Stage 4. We welcome the progress it represents, but look forward to continuing on to the next chapter with the other Bill that I mentioned.