Well, we fund education differently here in Wales, because we trust local government here in Wales to do the right thing by their schools, and, as I've said, local government is passing that money on to schools and then some, so I think that the characterisation that we're seeing on the Conservative benches is inaccurate and unfair.

We've also provided an additional £165 million for NHS Wales to help protect front-line services, and an additional £40 million for public transport, and I have heard the important points that colleagues have been making in respect of public transport. But I would also point to the fact that, over the next two years, we'll be providing in excess of £0.75 billion of revenue funding to support public transport provision across Wales, so this is clearly an area of significant interest and commitment from us.

And then you'll also see the additional funding for the discretionary assistance fund and the other forms of support that we're providing to those who most need it. So, I'm really proud of the budget that we are tabling today, and I do want to put on record my thanks to Plaid Cymru. Plaid Cymru Members have quite rightly highlighted some of the areas where we've worked in partnership, through our co-operation agreement, to provide additional funding—for example, the additional £10 million revenue in 2023-24 and 2024-25 towards expanding free childcare to all two-year-olds and the work that we will be doing together to monitor that. And of course there's additional funding to take forward some of the joint work that we're doing in respect of promoting the purchasing of Welsh-made goods and services. Again, this is part of our co-operation agreement, as is the additional funding to explore how the establishment of a national school for government might contribute to a step change in embedding the idea behind the one Welsh public service that drives us forward here in Wales.

I just want to put on record, I think, those important pieces of work that we'll be doing together, and of course to thank Jane Dodds as well for the discussions that we've had ahead of the budget today. I know that those have revolved a lot around the academy model, which provides the general dental service capacity, and that's linked with the education and training facilities. You see a really good example of that in north Wales; the North Wales Dental Academy has brought together community service, general dental service and education in a single location, and we'll be exploring how we can go about investing in more of these services in different areas of Wales to improve access to dentistry, and we look forward to continuing with those discussions as well.

So, in summary, as has been acknowledged by many, there are many challenges that remain. It has been a difficult budget to deliver, and the reality is that we haven't been able to meet all of the challenges that colleagues have quite rightly drawn attention to today. Despite this, I am confident that our budget does maximise the funding that is available to us, balancing those short-term needs against our longer term change agenda and committing to deliver on our programme for government ambitions.

I think I'll just take this last moment, with your indulgence, just to thank our very, very talented and committed officials, who have supported the development of the budget—I know that they have gone above and beyond to support the work—and also just to thank everybody who has provided evidence to committees and to ourselves as well. I think that this is a really good example of what we can do if we work together, and I look forward to the vote later on this afternoon.