Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

I am sure the Minister is not casting aspersions on the Minister for Transport over the lack of safe routes to school, though that is a matter to be resolved between Cabinet colleagues. During my time as a teacher, and perhaps during the Minister's time also, milk was provided in schools. There is a need to liaise with other Departments to provide healthier foods at schools in an attempt to reverse the habit children have acquired, perhaps through parental irresponsibility, of eating sugary energy-dense foods. The Departments of Education and Science and Agriculture and Food have a role to play in this regard.

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