Whilst we can agree with many of the initiatives mentioned by Helen Mary in her introduction to the debate, we believe that asking the Welsh Government to effectively underwrite a job guarantee scheme for the young suffering unemployment as a result of the coronavirus crisis is an ill-thought-out concept. Firstly, it could have considerable financial implications, which, given the Government's already stretched resources due to their numerous intervention programmes with regard to coronavirus, is almost certainly practical. Secondly, it raises the question: why should only the young be included in this proposal? There are many thousands of people not considered to be young in this sense, but who have families to support as well as mortgages and other financial demands, demands that are not generally shared by many of our young people. We do agree—indeed, we would call upon the Welsh Government to implement as many retraining schemes as possible, but these should be open to all suffering redundancies due to this crisis, not just the young.

We also cannot support the call for a citizen's assembly to establish how we should build the economy after coronavirus. It is we, as parliamentarians, who should be deciding how to go forward. We are the elected representatives of the people. We are charged by them to put in place the strategies and policies to invigorate the economy, not just after such crises but at all times whilst we exercise the power, whether directly, if we are the Government of the day, or by scrutiny and influence as the opposition. The establishment of a citizens' assembly will, of course, be an expensive exercise, and such expenditure cannot be justified in these times of extreme financial pressure.

The last proposal in this debate seems to be part of an unattainable Welsh wish list. Where will the billions come from—raising taxes, borrowing, or, as Helen Mary suggested, the issue of Government bonds? We all acknowledge that the youth of this country will be facing tax increases for years, maybe decades, to come as a result of the coronavirus lockdown strategy. So, despite the assurance outlined by Delyth Jewell and Rhun ap Iorwerth, we cannot burden them with even more debt in order to rebuild the economy. I agree with Rhun's call to push the restart button, but unfortunately, all too often, the billions spent by Government has resulted in very little value for money. The economy must be built by hard work from the bottom up, not by the largesse of Government money.