I thank the Deputy. I concur with what he said about the Jewish population in our society. Our Constitution has always embraced our colleagues in the Jewish community. It is an important point that the Deputy made. I make the point that there is a variety of different strands of opinion within Israel, which we have seen recently in civil society there in the context of constitutional issues. That needs to be said.

On spending and the fund, the idea is that we can plan in a way that there will be a sufficiency of capital money available in order that when there are economic downturns, we can maintain the capital projects to which we have committed and that we will have resources to build the roads, public transport, provide the buses, water infrastructure and have the capacity to buy land in terms of biodiversity, nature restoration and meeting our climate targets and reducing emissions.

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