Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:04 pm on 9 March 2021.
I'm delighted to support this budget—a really difficult budget. With the lack of ability to forecast more than a year ahead, I think this has been very smart in many ways in some of the choices and the priorities made. It caused me to reflect, actually, on what we have been doing over the last five years, despite—as Dawn Bowden, my colleague, was just saying—the challenges of austerity, and then topped by the challenges of the pandemic.