The bedroom tax. Wales is the only devolved nation where the most vulnerable have to pay bedroom tax. The SNP in Scotland got rid of it. In the north of Ireland they don't pay bedroom tax. And it's shameful. And I say to the Cabinet Secretary: where is your twenty-first century socialism when you allow such an awful tax to be paid by people in Wales? Why don't you abolish bedroom tax in Wales? You could do that by not making bad political decisions that cost everybody so much money. It's costing fortunes.

I just want to put one idea into the mix, and that's the idea of devolving power to local government to bring in a bed tax levy for tourists. If you're a tourist in this city, for example, and you're paying £150 a night, as many do, for a bed, for a room in a hotel, then just £1 or £2 is really not going to make a great deal of difference. And I say to the AMs to my right there—politically to my right, just over there, by the way, the Labour lot—a levy of £2 in Cardiff would raise £4 million—£4 million a year. And what we have here is a Government that has power, and I would tell you to use it and enable local government to raise revenue. One thing that could be done then is the abolition of the bedroom tax.

Overall, this is a really tired budget from a very tired Government. I'll be voting against.