I spend my time having to tell people who provide services on which our fellow citizens rely that they have to prepare for the tougher times and harder choices that lie ahead. I’ve said it countless times in this Chamber, so I understand that people out there understand the conditions in which this budget is being created and would have been anxious about what that might mean for them. Luckily, by acting together in the way we have, we now know, and can give for two years a certainty—because Bethan asked about making sure we could offer more than one year—we now have two years of certainty for people in the sector that that budget is protected, and as a result of this budget, another £10 million in both years is being made available to bolster the services that we provide in the homelessness field as well. And £4 million of that will go through my colleague Carl Sargeant’s budget, where he will be able to spend that money with housing associations and with the third sector, providing the services that we know—. Homelessness is more than bricks and mortar; it’s about attending to the real difficulties that people face—of mental health, of substance misuse, of alcohol difficulties and so on—that come with being in that awful set of circumstances. The money we will provide, through Supporting People and through this budget, will allow us to do more to help people out there. That’s why, when Dawn Bowden and Joyce Watson and Eluned Morgan all referred to the social fabric, the money that we’ve been able to find for homelessness, for the discretionary assistance fund, is so important.

Let me very briefly, Llywydd, say something to Darren Millar. There are other ideas on our tax list; a fast food packaging levy is there in the list that I outlined today. I’m sure, Llywydd, the last time I looked, the Menai bridge was in north-west Wales, and had he looked carefully at the agreement with Plaid Cymru, he would’ve seen that we have found money to accelerate the commitment the First Minister made in the Eisteddfod in August to the third Menai crossing. My colleagues will publish the detail of the budget in three weeks’ time, and he will see then the plans that we have, both for the £150 million flood defences and for the improvements to roads in the north of Wales.

There is more, of course, that could be said, but we are at the start of a process, not the end. I am grateful to everybody who has commented on the budget this afternoon, and I look forward to the period of scrutiny that will now follow.