Edward Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

The council talks about good planning and medium-term budgeting requiring forecasts to go on more than 20 months ahead. I could not agree more. I have raised here and in many other fora the fact that we need to be looking five or ten years ahead. The medium-term fiscal and structural plan does look five years ahead, although it does not go into the level of detail that we would like a budget to go into. There are lots of percentages but there are top line numbers for expenditure. Is the council aware of that plan?