Thank you very much, Llywydd. As a Member of this Parliament representing a north Wales constituency, I know only too well the failings of our transport network. I use that term very loosely, because it's not so much of a network, it's more of a collection of routes. My constituents can travel to Manchester or London easier and quicker than they can get to their own capital city down here in Cardiff. This is not only due to the lack of decent road links, but also a lack of reliable public transport. Businesses in south Wales described the M4 around Newport as a foot on the windpipe of the Welsh economy. For us, up here in north Wales, the A55 has the same effect. For nearly a quarter of a century, Welsh Governments have failed to address the issues, which has led to a rise in congestion. You have failed to ensure people can get around Wales to travel for work or leisure, and have failed to tackle the lack of reliable alternatives to the private vehicle. Without improvements to the A55 to boost capacity and increase linkages across this route, my constituency and the whole of north Wales will continue to be held back economically.

And I regret that this Government has become anti road. We won't address the issues of climate or air quality by scrapping infrastructure improvements. I support the stance taken by Labour parliamentarians Mark Tami and Jack Sargeant, who have condemned the delays to the red route, That decision not only impacts Alyn and Deeside, but affects all constituencies along the A55 corridor, and it adds to the congestion. That, in turn, adds to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions and has a severe impact on air quality. Stop-start traffic emits more particulate matter. Until my constituents have a clean, reliable alternative to the car, they will continue to rely upon personal vehicles to get from A to B, and unless you are proposing to rip up all roads, that'll mean more and more of them sitting in stop-start traffic. Unless we can ensure our road infrastructure can meet the demands placed upon it, our air quality and emissions will continue to deteriorate. The alternative is overcrowded and unreliable public transport. You can't force modal shift if there are no alternative modes of transport.

What we need to accept is the fact that the car is not going to disappear, so we have to make the car greener. It's really regrettable that the Welsh Government have failed to prepare to move to zero-emission vehicles. We have fewer electric charging points across Wales than Wandsworth and Westminster councils put together. Only 60 of our charging points are fast chargers. We have an even worse record when it comes to hydrogen buses or electric trains. We want people to use public transport, of course, yet in my part of the nation, that transport still uses the dirtiest of fossil fuels, diesel. It's time to stop blaming the motorists for the failings of the Welsh Government. Diolch yn fawr iawn.