What I’ll say, Mike Hedges, is that, just in the same way that I’m not a member of the Welsh Government, I’m bringing forward issues here today, I’m not a member of the council’s cabinet, and I think it’s right in this debate today—surely it’s right, is it not, for me to represent my constituents in this building today and say what some of the issues that are affecting them? I’m certainly very willing to work with the local authority and be constructive in working with them and bring forward solutions as well. That’s why I want to have this debate today. I want the Cabinet Secretary to bring forward solutions as well to help me to help my local authority, Mike Hedges.

But what I would say as well is that the other issue that is particularly relevant, I think, in rural areas is recycling for businesses. I do genuinely look to the Cabinet Secretary to come forward with a solution or acknowledge the problem, but many local authorities in rural areas are actually now reducing the list of items that can be taken to their recycling facility areas. They’re reducing the list, so I’ve got one business in my constituency that’s got recycling waste building up in a corner of their warehouse, because the local authority will no longer take it in their depot. What’s happening there is that they’re saying, ‘Well, go and ask a private company to come and take this from you.’ But, of course, there aren’t any private companies that are willing to go into rural parts of Wales. It’s not commercially viable for them to do so, and this is a very real problem as well.

The other issue is, of course, that the local authority has stopped collecting from businesses last month. So, businesses are now expected to take their recycled waste to their nearest depot. For one business I’ve got, it’s a 45-mile round trip. They’ve got a large amount of recycled waste, but they’ve not got a commercial vehicle. I look at the Cabinet Secretary waving his arms at me—well, I’m genuinely looking for solutions to some of these problems, and I’m wondering whether there is an opportunity here to either change legislation or amend legislation to make it easier for people and businesses in Wales to recycle their household goods and business waste.

But I do want to bring these forward today. I know a lot of businesses are very happy to pay for a service for collection, but that they can’t do so because it’s not commercially viable for companies to come in and offer that service. I think, therefore, the Government needs to step in and fill that market failure.