Mr. Páiric Clerkin:

One goes to the very basics. We fought hard to ensure that children would continue to be fed through the school meals provision programme. As an organisation, we took a leading role in ensuring that it would continue. We commend the fact that that will be made available during the summer period. All those background services supporting schoolchildren require ever more investment. They require the resources to ensure that we can do what we need to do to support those children. The one thing that can level the playing field for everyone is education and we must ensure that we give every opportunity to each child to achieve through the education system.