I won't be supporting this budget here today. I didn't support the final budget, so I won't be doing it, as I said, today. What we have here, really, is some money just being shifted around, no great real change. The phrase 'fiddling whilst Rome burns' really does come to mind. Wales is the only devolved nation that pays bedroom tax. Now, the Cabinet Secretary before said that that wasn't a matter for him. Well, it's a matter for Scottish politicians, it's a matter for politicians in the north of Ireland, where they've got rid of the bedroom tax, which is a pernicious tax affecting the least well off.

If you look at Cardiff locally, Cardiff council, they say that there's a £91 million shortfall in budget over the next three years, and I'll quote what the council has said,

'there will be services which we simply will be unable to offer to residents in the future.'

It's a really, really serious thing. And what is being done? Not a great deal. If you look at the shortfall again, £91 billion, well, at least that's less than the budgets—less than the bonus that the chief executive of Persimmon awarded himself, or was awarded in January: £110 million. I want to point out that Persimmon is one of the companies, the corporate entities, ravaging our countryside in this area and making one hell of a profit.

It's a bad budget from a bad Government that has run out of ideas, and the sooner that this administration is gone, the better.