Many of the things that are in budgets from year to year are controversial. That should be of no surprise.
We think that consultation time is adequate. It's more than several months of consultation. I find these consultations tend to go on indefinitely if there isn't some sort of deadline for them. We used to write essays in university, and if there was no deadline they didn't get done until the last moment.
That's why we have a deadline for consultations.