I'm not going to repeat anything that's already been said, so you'll be pleased or know that, but I think there's one thing in all of this that can't be denied—although there are those here who will—and that is the fact that we're experiencing an awful lot of climate change. We've had the hottest February ever on record, and a consequence of very high temperatures in the winter will be storms that will follow. And the consequence of the storms, of course, will be areas subject to being flooded. So, we're seeing more and more areas that have never experienced flooding before experiencing it now for the very first time. And it makes it virtually impossible to predict where that flooding incident might happen. So, I welcome your different approach about not putting concrete down just as way of combating what we don't know, really, we're looking at.

So, in terms of thinking differently, I wonder if you would consider, when we have large-scale developments, in terms of the car parking arrangements, that we don't have non-permeable car parking arrangements, but we actually move now to the different solutions that are already happening in smaller scale developments. Because I think it's hugely important that, if we're talking about towns that are experiencing flooding, and we're putting down some development, we need to really think about the consequence of what we're doing, and I think that that would be hugely beneficial.

I do thank you for your statement and I am really pleased to welcome £150 million for a nationwide programme of flood protection works. And I do also welcome money to complete two important Powys schemes—one in Talgarth and one in Welshpool—because Welshpool town centre has been specifically hard hit in the past, as has Talgarth. So, I know those people in those areas will really welcome this fund.

But I suppose my overall plea today is that we will need to think—and it's evidenced already by your statement—differently, and that here, definitely, prevention will be much better than cure, since we don't know what those weather patterns are going to be, and we don't know when we're going to experience extreme, heavy downpours. And unlike some in this Chamber, I do recognise that we are going through a period where the weather patterns are changing rapidly.