School Meals Programme
Dail Éireann — 2023-05-23
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Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (SF), Cork South-Central

I certainly will not be critical of this as it is something that I advocated for as education spokesperson until recently. It is beneficial and great to see it being rolled out in schools, even though we started from a long way back compared with other European countries. It is good to see we are catching up. I have more of a statement than a question. As we roll this out, it is important to ensure on an ongoing basis over the course of many years that we keep an eye on quality. In some countries that have long-established school meals systems, the quality has slipped. I am not saying there is a problem with the quality at the minute. My own young fellow gets school meals and he is very happy with them. We need to ensure it is monitored on an ongoing basis over the next few decades.

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Sitting date: 2023-05-23