Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It might be helpful for the committee if I get the full list from the Department of Education and Skills. There are some schools that are classified as nearly–DEIS. The terminology is not mine. The Department of Education and Skills is responsible for putting the schools in a hierarchy of need. Every single DEIS school receives an application. There are some schools that would potentially qualify for DEIS status notwithstanding that they do not have exactly the same criteria. These are in the next group of categories. A number of years ago, long before my time, the school meals programme was opened to that next category of schools. They are not quite DEIS, but they would be so but for compliance possibly with one other condition.