What Wales needs, of course, is a national railway. My fear is—and it's really underlined by the fact that we are going to get one business case for north Wales and a separate one for south Wales and then something fuzzy in the middle—that the Welsh Government really is a prisoner of the old map and the old thinking, whereby our infrastructure wasn't actually about moving our people around our communities, it was mostly about moving goods west to east, and, in the coalfield, it was about moving coal south to the ports. We have to reverse that thinking. We have to have a national, integrated vision. And while there were many things in the Cabinet Secretary's long list of overarching needs, which is difficult to disagree with, it's the omission that was glaring. We're a country that is defined by our gaps, the things that aren't there, more than the things that are there. The one thing you didn't talk about—with the exception of connecting cities—is connecting Wales, a country whose railway map is a reverse 'E'. It's a trident that runs across our country, and nothing at the western end, and yet there are ambitious proposals to create a national western link. Indeed, the Government has commissioned itself a feasibility study to reopen the link between Carmarthen and Aberystwyth—nothing about that, at all, in this proposal, in this statement. Shouldn't there be, as part of Mark Barry's work, a commitment to looking at a western seaboard railway link, so that we can actually move from the south to the north of our country by rail without having to go into another country. It's a pretty modest demand, Cabinet Secretary.

Now, you said that we shouldn't be standing in the margins complaining, and I heartily agree with that. The Cabinet Secretary for Finance recently announced that the Welsh Government will soon be able to issue bonds in order to fund infrastructure projects in the future. As part of this overarching analysis, will Professor Barry be looking at the possibility of using bonds, as Transport for London has done very successfully, as Professor Gerry Holtham has suggested, in terms of the cancelled electrification link? Rather than just complaining about those projects that Westminster's refusing to fund, shouldn't we be looking creatively at our own financial means of meeting our own requirements?

Finally, it was, of course, Mark Barry's big idea for reducing journey times between Cardiff and Swansea, shared as part of his vision for the Swansea bay and western Valleys metro, to take the Neath station off the Great Western main line, running that connection, then, instead, along a new direct line from Port Talbot to Swansea. Can I therefore invite you to say clearly whether or not you are ruling out any proposal that would remove Neath from the Great Western main line? Your Counsel General said that he would not support any proposal that included this. He is ruling this idea out. Can you say whether you are ruling this out at this stage, given that it was actually Professor Barry's idea?