Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:53 pm on 10 January 2023.
If the responsibility is entirely on our shoulders, and we are expected to care for everything without people taking responsibility for their own actions, then we're not going to cope. If you look at the situation—[Interruption.] If you look at the situation in terms of an ageing population, it won't be possible in future for us to provide the services that are required. So, we need to ask the Welsh people to help us in this.
We have put things in place, such as the help that we are offering in terms of Help us Help you, the help that we have provided through 'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales'. A great deal of funding has gone into these schemes, and also the pre-diabetes funding that we've put into the system, which is making a difference. So, we are trying to ensure that we are providing the help where we can. We understand that the cost-of-living problems are going to have an impact on people, and we are aware that the people who are going to pay the greatest price are the poorest people in our society. That's why we've been targeting our funding towards those people. We have allocated a great deal of funding to help people through this crisis and, truth be told, it's the responsibility of Westminster to give us that funding, and to provide that funding, but we have stepped into the breach because the Westminster Government hasn't done its work.