Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 37 – Social Protection (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
In terms of the school meals, for instance, if we get to a situation where we have the 3,200 schools and the 550,000 children, when compared with last year's academic year and the 2,740 schools and 467,680 children, there will clearly be extra expenditure. There has been a big increase in expenditure in relation to that. We will be back to the committee in February to go through how our year is going and the Revised Estimates. We will be able to give a much better picture then, particularly on the hot school meals, because we have a lot of work going on with schools around the country. We will have a much clearer picture. Hopefully, at the end of February, we will have a good sense of where we are at with My Future Fund. It is still to go live but by the end of February, we will be able to give members a good flavour of the first few months of it.
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