Darren, just as the budget for local government is the largest ever in cash terms, just as the budget for the health service is the largest ever in cash terms, just as the budget for housing is the largest ever in cash terms—every one of which you told me was a cut in real terms. So, you know and Members around the Chamber know that in real terms our budget is less than it was a decade ago, despite all the extra needs that we know are there in Wales. 

Any Member of this Assembly, Llywydd, is entitled to ask for more money to be spent on any area, but in a time when all our money is committed, those calls only hold real authority when someone is willing to say where that money would be taken from, because there is nowhere uncommitted to go. So, when Darren said to me that we hadn't done enough for business rates, we hadn't done enough for first-time buyers, we hadn't done enough for health, we hadn't done enough for local government, we hadn't done enough for FE—and this is before his colleagues told me I hadn't done enough for housing, I hadn't done enough for transport, and I hadn't done enough for infrastructure—where do they think that the money is to come from for all those things that they would like us to do? Well, I can tell you that it will come from the next Labour Government at the UK level, and then we'll have the budget of the sort that we will be able to use to attend to the needs of Wales.

Llywydd, this is a draft budget that meets the needs of the people of Wales. It's a draft budget that provides a real alternative to the harmful and self-defeating policy of austerity. It's a draft budget that provides stability in the face of the uncertainty surrounding Brexit. It is a budget that underscores our aim to create a Wales that is prosperous, healthy, ambitious and united. It's a budget that I hope the Assembly will endorse this afternoon, and I comment the budget motion to you.