Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

How feasible is a five-year plan when we can project demographics down the line? Perhaps we should look beyond a five-year building programme and identify areas where the student population, in ten years' time, will warrant a new post-primary school. We could have short-term, medium-term and long-term building programmes rather than just a rigid five-year programme where a school is either on or off it. An argument could be made for short, medium and long-term building programmes. I do not know if that already happens within the Department.