I think there’s a little bit of both between home builders and developers and the general public. It’s about acceptance that there’s an opportunity to build and construct with other methods of construction. That’s where the innovation fund—. I’ve started that, and I’ll be making some announcements very soon on new opportunities. I’m sure the Member will be delighted when she hears some of those proposals that will be coming forward. I will be making that, as I said, in the next few weeks, including issues around guidance and funding to drive better alternatives to rough sleeping.

Llywydd, you cannot build homes without land, and Members have raised that issue in the Chamber today. We will continue—and I have already had discussions with Ken Skates and Lesley Griffiths on how we can increase the availability of public-owned land to support house building. We are in the process of legislating to end the right to buy and right to acquire. Unlike the UK Government, we believe this is the only way to protect the social housing stock from further reduction, and while giving councils and housing associations the confidence to build new homes, for many people social housing represents their only chance of a home, and we’re determined to ensure it’s continued with increased availability.

We have a strong track record of bringing empty homes back into market—over 7,500 in the last term of government. Local authorities have a range of powers available to them to accelerate this. Llywydd, there is still much more to do, as I said, though we are making real progress. Statistics released today show that during 2016-17 the number of new dwellings started increased by 2 per cent compared to previous years, and this is the second-highest annual recorded number since 2007-8.

Working with the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs, I’m keen to use the planning system to increase house building. I listened to Hefin’s contribution and I know he’s made strong representation about processes in the LDP. I think we do have opportunities with the regional development plans that Andrew Davies made reference to in the Planning (Wales) Act 2015. Unfortunately, yet again, that was a very progressive piece of legislation that you chose to vote against. So, one minute you want it and the next minute you don’t. I can’t really understand where you’re coming from. I recognise the importance of infrastructure in public services, but people still need homes and they cannot wait for the end of austerity. So, I cannot support amendment 4. I can, however, assure you that I will be working to align strategic infrastructure projects such as the metro, as the Member raised, with our house building programme.

It is no surprise that I cannot support the Conservative motion. Unlike the Government’s amendment, it fails to set out a comprehensive programme of practical action to meet the wide variety of housing needs in Wales. We can argue for hours about the precise details. David Melding said we should set ourselves out; well, this Government is getting on with the job, alongside our partners in the public and private sectors, rather than the academic arguments that the Member uses—playing the blame game in Wales while we meet the needs of housing here in Wales. Diolch.