Can I, first, fully endorse and commend the First Minister's letter to the UK Government in support of the Swansea bay development and reiterate UKIP's total support for any interventions that might bring that development about?

Cabinet Secretary, we do not have to look far outside the confines of this Chamber to experience the chronic inadequacies of the road infrastructure in Wales. Some few hundred yards away, we have a brand-new bridge, but, in reality, it is a bridge to nowhere. Rover Way is nothing less than a three-mile bottleneck that leads to the 10-mile bottleneck we call the A48(M).

Nothing can be more indicative of the problems of accessing the city of Cardiff than my own journey to and from work. In order to be sure to arrive in time for a 9 a.m. committee meeting, I have to leave Griffithstown in Pontypool at 6.30 a.m.. Leaving it any later, I would encounter an almost solid line of traffic right up to the gates of this business. Obviously, I know that the Welsh Government won't lose any sleep over the fact that I have to rise at 5:15 in the morning in order to get to work, but, surely, this state of affairs is wholly unacceptable for those others who have to commute to work, particularly those accessing the capital city. There are those in this Chamber who have to experience the horrors of the A470 and there are also considerable problems, as has been outlined earlier, for those approaching from the west.

Just to end this personal illustrative journey, there is no point in my attempting to leave this building to go home until at least 7 p.m., or I encounter the same traffic conditions as I outlined earlier. Here, I have concentrated on access to the city of Cardiff, but this, of course, is a scenario repeated in both our other cities, and elsewhere throughout Wales. Cabinet Secretary, I have to ask: when will we see the upgrades to our road infrastructure that we so desperately need and is, indeed, envisaged in the south Wales metro project?

I've outlined problems for commuters above, which, of course, is a major cause for concern, but, as has been mentioned earlier by many of those who contributed to this debate, Cabinet Secretary, the cost to the Welsh economy is huge. If we are to have a dynamic, entrepreneurial business base in Wales, it is essential that we have the infrastructure to sustain it. Roads are an important, if not the most important, part of that infrastructure. And please note, Cabinet Secretary, I have not once mentioned the Malpas tunnels.