Dr. Cliodhna Foley-Nolan:

To supplement what the representatives from Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection have said, discussions are under way on the nutritional standards of school meals and not the provision. As a North-South body, in the North we are part of the food in schools forum, which has worked for longer than I have been part of safefood. We encourage the Departments of Health, Education and Skills and Employment Affairs and Social Protection to be part of this and have a similar forum. It would be a more holistic look at food in school. There is a model that works very well and it could be replicated in the South.