The supplementary budget is a relatively technical issue, so I won’t speak for long, but it’s worth noting that this will be the final supplementary budget, I think, as part of the two-year compact that my party had agreed with the Labour Government, and we have delivered a lot, of course, as part of that agreement and we celebrate that, particularly during this recent period. I’d like to refer to two things that could create foundations for the future and could, in due course, be foundations that we could build on when we are in Government.

I’m referring, mainly, to the Arfor scheme, which has been announced in recent weeks, that sets out an initial framework for tackling long-term problems that we’ve faced in the west, the south-west and the north-west, in the Welsh-speaking west, then, and the economy there that not only is important in terms of economic development policies, but the basic viability of those communities, with that affecting our ambition in terms of ensuring a viable future in terms of the Welsh language in those core areas in terms of its prosperity.

That programme is an experimental one and an innovative one, because we have to do things anew—we can’t carry on to doing the same things with the economic policy that has failed those communities. That’s to be seen in the lack of attainment or achievement in terms of economic performance in those areas. So, it’s good to see recognition of that by the Government. The starting point is to recognise where you’re going wrong. The first step is to do something different, and although it’s a relatively small investment—we’re only talking about £2 million, initially, at least we’ve been able to create the foundation for thinking anew, and I hope, in due course, it will be possible—it's only through forming a Plaid Cymru Government that we’ll be able to turn this initial programme into a transformative programme for these areas.

In the same direction, on a national level, there is the programme relating to the foundational economy that recognises also that there has been a fundamental deficiency in terms of the direction of the economic policy of the Government. That is, a lack of emphasis on small and medium-sized companies rooted in the local economy in Wales—grounded firms in the terms of that approach. But also, trying to use those levers available to us in the economies that Hefin David mentioned—some of the areas of the Heads of the Valleys, which haven’t had a sufficient focus in terms of sustainable job creation in the long term, that are established, with high value and high salaries in those areas. The same pattern is to be seen across Wales, and at least there is some recognition—and we saw that in the comments made by of the Minister with responsibility, Lee Waters, over the weekend—that there has been a vacuum in the Labour Government’s economic policy for many years. Well, hallelujah. When a sinner repents, the first step is to admit failings, deficiencies and that there is a need to do something different.

So, we welcome the fact that at least a seed has been sown here, and, ultimately, of course, in order to ensure that we have prosperity, we have to turn these pilot schemes and these small investments, compared with the budget in its entirety, to be the root or the hub of the economic policy, rather than something at the margins. I'm sure that we will need to see a political change in due course, in order to ensure that, but, at least we’ve been able to make some kind of contribution to create a foundation that will be useful for us in two and a half years when we will be taking the reins of Government.