Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:03 pm on 6 December 2016.
Well, you could easily have asked the same of your colleague who is the finance Minister, when he did three jobs at the same time—Minister, AM and also a further education lecturer. My position on my allowance is quite clear: next year, it’s going to my community. But, to return to the throwing away of millions of pounds—millions of pounds—I’ve just flagged up to you where you have wasted tens of millions of pounds on the grant procedures, your land deals and local development plans. Let’s look at the micro. I’ll give you one example of how you guys do business in local government. One decision made across the way was to close my local youth centre through political choices. The council has done two things over there: rather than protect services, as we want to do here, they spent £30,000 on newspapers and—[Interruption.] I’ve given way once and I’m not giving way again. They are spending £30,000 on newspapers. [Interruption.]