Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 7:09 pm on 9 February 2021.
I'd like to start by congratulating Rebecca Evans on managing to produce a budget that keeps the wheels turning on the health service and our economy in the middle of a pandemic. That is no small achievement. Just by listening to what everybody else has said, there's no part of Welsh society unaffected by the pandemic. So, the demands on the public purse are assaulting her on all sides, and it's fantastic that despite all that, she still has managed to carve out areas of the budget to ensure that we are moving forward on making for a fairer and greener society here in Wales. But there's an enormous amount to be done.