Can I just begin by commending, overall, the hand that the Welsh Government has played, not just in the final budget, but this year? It's been really difficult. You can only actually play the hand that you're dealt, and we're still—this isn't a political point; it's a harsh reality—in the long tail of austerity. We have a declining budget you can only use in a certain number of ways, as Neil Hamilton was just saying. You've got to make some really, really tough choices. But what's also compounded the difficulty this year is the fact—and it's interesting seeing this as somebody who's travelled down the M4 to come to this democratic institution—that the smoke and mirrors are even more apparent when the UK Government makes a grand announcement of investment in local government or in healthcare and so on, and then you find, well, they've actually already allocated significant parts of that to this, that and the other. So, it isn't a free hand for the Welsh Government to use as is; they've cut it away already.

So, actually, the course of this year, as we arrive at the final budget, has been quite difficult for Welsh Government Ministers, to deal with that complexity, the smoke and mirrors, and to make some really hard choices. Now, I agree with Mike's point that this is still tough territory for a lot of public sector organisations, not least local government. But within the hand that was dealt, I think there's been some tough but some intelligent decisions being made there. It hasn't been easy. 

But I want to turn to some of the smaller ones, first of all, because within this there are some nuggets as well. One of the interesting ones—the extra £5 million to take forward feasibility studies into a national art gallery and a national football museum—can I just put a plea in here? I know it's been mentioned, I don't whether half in jest or not, but there is a fine tradition in the democratisation of the arts to take the arts to the unexpected places, and it doesn't have to be the Guggenheim in Bilbao. It can be the Whitehall art galleries that were put deliberately in areas where working-class people would experience the best of the art. It's Tracey Emin taking her gallery out of London to Margate instead. Well, I'll tell you what, take it to Port Talbot. It's 20 minutes down the road from me, but it's exactly the population—[Interruption.] Yes, and the Banksy publicity helps with this. But take it to a place like that. Take the art to the people; democratise the art. Don't take it to the normal places and the normal people; take it somewhere else. Use that feasibility study wisely. You can do some amazing things with relatively small amounts of money here.

There's some money in here to support tree planting in Wales. A lot of people say, 'Well, that's very nice' and so on. But if you look at what they've done in the upper Llynfi valley with the Spirit of Llynfi Woodland, with a little bit of tree planting alongside engaging six GP practices in a cluster, alongside local primary and secondary schools, alongside knitters and sewers, striders and so on, it's having the effect on that 20:20 community we have, where there is a 20-year mortality difference between the top of the Llynfi and Porthcawl. It's that sort of money, invested wisely—small amounts can really make a difference.

Can I just speak up as well for Natural Resources Wales for once, because it gets so much flack in here? I know people who work within the bowels of NRW and they are passionate and committed environmentalists. This amount of money—I mean, it's been hard hit, but this will do some good there for the morale of those people, because they're passionate about our biodiversity, about tackling climate change, about the species that we have in our marine and our terrestrial environment. It's good to see these amounts of money—even the Llangrannog and Glan-llyn one, as somebody who regularly went there as a youngster and actually lost a canoe to the bottom of the lake in Bala as well. [Laughter.] Remarkable, because they said this canoe couldn't sink, it was like the Titanic, it was filled with foam. Well, I proved them wrong—went right to the bottom.

But even though it's not going to be the panacea—and I commend the work that Rhianon has been doing on promoting the case of music and music in education and music in communities as well, and also Beverley Humphreys, Beverley Humphreys of World of Music on Sunday nights on BBC Wales. As she often says from the platform, people go to sleep with her on a Sunday night. Now, Beverley uses that line, not me, right, okay. [Laughter.] But she also—whenever she stands in the hall in Porthcawl, in Maesteg town hall and so on, she always puts this case strongly. Now, that sum won't turn everything around, but it's a contribution and I just wonder, when we put that alongside the work of people like friends now, friends' groups that have come up, actually putting money into musical education and so on, what more we can do with that.

But I want to turn very briefly—. In terms of local authorities, it's welcome—the additional money that's been squeezed out of this. I think we also need to say to local authorities: make the most of the money that's going into regional partnership boards. But I think we recognise they are under tough times, and I would urge the Government, even with the funding settlement that we've had here, to continue to work with local authorities and to find not just funding ways but imaginative, creative ways that they can make all their resources go further. I think that will require Welsh Government help, regional partnership help, consortia help and doing things differently as well as putting funding in there. Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd.