May I ask for an oral statement from the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs on the response to the recent flooding in communities across Wales? Of course, I welcome the commitment to provide financial support to the homes and businesses affected, and we need assurances that that will be paid immediately and not in two months' time, as happened in similar cases last year, of course. But, we also need to ensure that the Welsh Government does work closely with local authorities and NRW to ensure that any improvements necessary to the flood prevention infrastructure in those areas that experienced recent disasters and that the work needed there is done immediately. They might be temporary improvements in the short term, but we must avoid further cases of flooding in those areas that have already been hit.

Also, we need to ensure that those who were almost affected by flooding—and I know of many dozens of homes that came within inches of being flooded—are given the equipment and advice needed to protect their homes as a matter of urgency. I'm talking about things like floodgates here. The concern about flooding has a grave impact on people's mental health, never mind the fact that investing to avoid flooding in the first place would make much more sense than having to deal with the outcomes of flooding when it's already too late. 

May I also ask for a statement from the Minister for Housing and Local Government, given the totally inadequate response from the First Minister to my question a few moments ago on the population estimates used by the Welsh Government, and the grave inconsistency that's now been highlighted between the projections used as part of the local government funding formula for next year's budget, and the projections used for the LDPs? One in Wrexham says that the population will be static, and the other in Wrexham says that the population is going to increase substantially. I would assume that this is a cause for embarrassment for this Government and something that you and every other Minister would be eager to sort out once and for all.