I won't rehearse the arguments as to why we need to take action on this. Climate change is a reality and we will be seeing more of these unprecedented events in the future. But my region, like many others, has been affected and I've been speaking to people since Sunday who have been severely affected and how their lives have been changed overnight by this instance.

Just in relation to the local issues, I believe—I'm here often criticising local authorities, but I do believe that many in my region have responded really well and we've heard reports of teams from local authorities who were out working double shifts or even longer. One local co-ordinator in the Neath area, named Emma, she's been out in Aberdulais and she hasn't stopped for over a week and she's co-ordinating an enormous community response effort and she's now a pillar of the community. These people across Wales, whether they're workers in the council or volunteers—you can only know in a crisis what you would do and we've seen amazing activity from people across the whole of Wales, I think, who've just got up and rolled their sleeves up and have got active. I haven't been one of them, and I've been criticised for virtue signalling, because I can't get out there. But, believe me, if I wasn't nearly nine months pregnant, I would be out there and I would be helping, as has everybody else here in Wales.

In Aberdulais—Canal Side, I have got many friends who live there. They're right beside the canal. They've been flooded again and again and again, and this time they've had sewage enter at the back of their houses. And what they have been disappointed with is that they're not sure why that has happened, and Welsh Water has still not clarified to them exactly why the sewage has entered their homes. Many of those residents have got sick, as Mick Antoniw has said, as a result.

And if I was scrambling around as an AM, trying to find out—. Public Health Wales were giving me information; NRW were giving me information; Dŵr Cymru—. They just want to know what they have to do in a crisis situation. They don't want to be reading mass documents about how to clean up sewage. They just want to be given advice, and they want someone on hand who has that expertise, as the First Minister said was happening; I didn't see that in my region.

We were also told by Canal Side that, the last time that they had flooding there, there was an emergency meeting at the British Legion—which I wasn't invited to—and that they did promise to have stronger flood defences there. I want to see another such urgent meeting organised with all AMs, all representatives, there, so that we can understand exactly how we can build on the flood defences in that area, looking at how they can be improved so that we can all try and make it better if it happens next time.

The lack of information, I think, was fundamental for them. They just didn't know what time they were supposed to leave their housing. And, if you did look at the sandbags, compared to some other areas of Wales, it was pretty pitiful. They just did not do anything much to help in that regard. Another issue in my region was in regard to the Canal View Café in Resolven. That's now closed as a result of damage and I'm trying to help them find ways that they can rebuild their café and to reopen. So, I would appeal, as other AMs have done here now, for people to be able to assist in that regard and to give them support.

So, of course, we have to discuss the practical elements, but I think, long term, we all want to see solutions and we all want to constructively be part of this discussion, because it won't just affect Neath Port Talbot, Ystalyfera, Rhondda, Cwmbran, it will affect every single area. Because that's what climate change does. It doesn't discriminate based on the parochialisms we may have here in Wales. It will not discriminate on that behalf. It will invade our lives and it will affect us in many, many different ways. So, if we can work together on that, then I would hope that we would be successful.