Beverley Flynn (Mayo, Independent)
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Question 339: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when moneys which were promised by 1 October 2007 for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo to subsidise a lunch club will be awarded. [26356/07]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The school meals programme operated by my Department gives funding towards provision of food services for disadvantaged school children through two schemes. The first is the long-standing statutory urban school meals scheme, currently operated by 36 local authorities. The second is the school meals community (local projects) scheme through which funding is provided by my Department to participating schools and voluntary community groups in both urban and rural areas who are running specific school meals projects, including breakfast clubs.

An application for funding under the school meals local projects scheme for the school year 2007/2008 from the school concerned has now been processed and payment will issue shortly.