Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 1:33 pm on 20 November 2019.
I think there are serious problems with flooding. Minister, would you agree that you're not going to solve the problem by just spending money and putting up higher and higher walls; the solution has got to be to find places for the water to go. And I talk often about the one on the River Tawe, where the water floods into a flood area, which is just land. Surely, if you're going to spend money, spend money on areas that we can flood, and flood successfully, without doing any damage, rather than building higher and higher walls, until such time as we keep on spending more and more of our budget on making walls higher and higher, but, as the water levels rise, we end up with the situation that there's water still coming over the walls.