Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I simply wish to agree with Ms Grace O'Malley on the point about home economics in school, cooking and teaching children. I still believe that no matter where one lives in the city, one can buy decent vegetables and so on. I visit supermarkets all the time and there always are three-for-two bargains on sale. I see people buying cans of carrots for €1.75, when one could buy a bag of carrots that would last a week instead. This is the basic point in this regard. I have one question in respect of school meals and breakfast clubs. I was part of a parents group that introduced the first breakfast club in the country in Inchicore and Goldenbridge, where I live. It was because we had seen children coming to school who had nothing. What is Ms O'Malley's opinion on school meals and schools that deliver them? Does she think it is of benefit to children or is this a case of going to the extreme and doing things the children's parents ought to be doing?