I thank you for those responses, and it sounds like there might be some positive news. I'm sure I'm not going to get too much out of you in regard to the budget, but I will try. So, thank you for that response. 

Of course, it's not just the economy that is facing an uncertain time, but our health and social care sectors too. There are already huge amounts of pressure as we all know. We only have to look at the current waiting times for treatment, which have increased substantially during the pandemic. And whilst services are doing their very best to respond to the challenges, and I don't doubt the scale of the task ahead, the new variant is only going to add to their workload. One way of helping to free up capacity in health services is to ensure that people needing social care can access the support that they need within the community or specialist services. However, as we've all heard over the past few months, there is a significant backlog within the sector, with an unacceptable number of people waiting to be moved out of the hospital to home or into a community care facility. Whilst councils and their staff have done a fantastic job in dealing with the impact of the pandemic, it's clear that they will need more support over the coming months. Many are already facing huge overspends in adult and children's services, and this will only add to the financial pressures facing our vital front-line services. Minister, will you provide councils with the sufficient uplift they need in the local government settlement so that they can respond to current and future pressures, and how will the budget allocate the substantial consequential funding that is flowing to Wales as a result of recent announcements about social care elsewhere in the UK? 

Furthermore, we also need a long-term, ambitious plan to ensure parity between health and social care so we don't find ourselves in this situation again and to improve recruitment and retention rates. To steer us in the right direction, the Welsh Conservatives have called for all social care workers to be paid a minimum of £10 an hour, and I hope that Plaid's position remains the same in that regard. Minister, how will your budget start addressing the mismatch between social care and health in Wales?