Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael)
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That would be very helpful. I thank Dr. Foley-Nolan.

I would like to ask Mr. Conlon and Ms Harrington about their professional experience of breakfast clubs. I know there is a difference between facilitating schools and funding schools. When we are delivering certain programmes to individuals and to entire schools to address disadvantage, we do not necessarily look at schools that might not be perceived as having disadvantage but that actually do. Obviously, each household is different. I appreciate that schools and school principals are responsible for identifying disadvantage. When the relevant section of the Department is funding a programme, does it proactively ask whether there is more it can do to target funding towards a specific scheme or programme? Does it go into individual schools, with the assistance of school management, in that way?