I rise to support my colleague David Melding's amendments, particularly amendment 5. I don't agree with the abolition of the right to buy. I know too many people who've had the ability to buy a home, and they would never have had that chance before, but I am prepared to accept that that is a battle lost already, and I understand the ideological opposition to this. But, if you are going to do this, what I simply cannot get my head around is the fact that you're not going to be fair about it, and I do expect any law that we as an Assembly pass here to be fair and equitable to all the members of our society.

I cannot understand why some people, mainly those in the six counties that already have a suspension, are not going to be allowed the opportunity to buy their houses if they wish. I don't think the numbers are, actually, that many, but the point is that we're making two classes of tenants. I did hear the point that Jenny Rathbone made about the vultures descending on Cardiff, but then you could say that the vultures will descend on all the other ones that don't have a suspension currently in place. What I think we're doing is we're being incredibly unfair, and I have had a significant number of people write to me from Carmarthenshire who've been unable to buy their houses and would have liked to have had the chance. They didn't realise that there was a suspension going to happen. When it happened, they assumed that at some point it would stop and they could do it, and they've been much aggrieved by the fact that they're going to be treated differently to people in Pembrokeshire or Ceredigion, and I simply—