Second, one of the ways we can help people's nutritional health in disadvantaged communities, some of which are in my own constituency as well as my former constituency, is through the free meals scheme. Other European Union countries have managed to put in place excellent schemes to ensure children get at least one square meal a day. The reports of the Combat Poverty Agency and various religious orders here in Dublin and other cities highlight the fact that children in some disadvantaged communities are not getting the basic nutritional value from their food. A Government sponsored free meals scheme, which needs to be amended at this stage, would help to reduce poverty in absolute terms.