Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We even put free fridges into some schools to encourage this scheme. This is about milk promotion but it is also about healthy eating in schools. The Department of Education and Skills has other schemes around healthy eating programmes in schools and this is linked to them.

This is a separate point entirely but, across Departments, we are looking at a more effective healthy eating programme in schools generally and linking in three or four schemes being funded by different Departments and, perhaps, having one more effective and successful overall scheme. It is done very well in a number of other countries and I recently attended a presentation on how it is done in Australia. We could probably do better in this area but from our perspective, we are spending money trying to subside the consumption of milk in schools.