Can I say how much I'm looking forward to joining this debate? The transition and the growth the National Assembly from a body that, largely, simply administered the public sector when it was established in 1999 to a Parliament that governs our country is one that will test all of us in different ways. And the Conservatives are to be commended in starting that test this afternoon.

I do not believe that the motion they've tabled meets the challenge of all the contributions we've heard this afternoon. I believe it is important that we do have a reasoned and a mature debate on taxation. We've just been through a budget round and we voted on the final budget of the Welsh Government, and what we heard on all sides of the Chamber, including my own side of the Chamber, were demands for additional spending. I can't think of a single contribution that was made, at any point in the debate on the budget, where any Member here asked for a reduction in expenditure. Everybody spent money with every speech and every utterance.