Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 7:13 pm on 9 May 2018.
I just echo everything that you've just said there; it was a pleasure to listen to that, David. Actually, your comments about the crescent in Bath I particularly liked, and it made me look at—I remember seeing it on Facebook actually and I just managed to find it as Hefin was speaking—Crescent Street in Merthyr Vale. It's a crescent full of the type of houses you've been talking about, and every single one of them—I can see the picture here—has been closed down; all the windows are closed up and they're going to be demolished, basically, and I think that's one of the saddest pictures I've seen in a long time. The reason I wanted to speak to you today is because some of these houses, or these types of houses, I think could be saved using Help to Buy in Wales. I think you said that we don't really need to build new stuff all the time. Help to Buy would not only bring some of these houses back into use, particularly for first-time buyers, of course, but it would be targeting small and medium-sized builders and building enterprises rather than the big six, who, of course, are benefiting mainly from Help to Buy as it currently stands. Thank you very much.