Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

The medium-term expenditure framework was more a backward-looking piece about the expenditure drivers over the past five years. What the Deputy is referring to is a medium-term fiscal and structural plan which will contain the expenditure ceilings and will set out all of the detail he has requested. It is not and was never meant to be that. It is an analysis of the 45% increase in expenditure we have seen in the past five years and where did it go, what were the outputs from it and is an overall evaluation of that within my own Department on the policy choices that were made and what it is delivering to inform how we frame budgetary policy into the medium term. That will be published in the coming weeks when we publish the medium-term fiscal and structural plan with all of the detail the Deputy has referenced there.