Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 96: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11, which is a DEIS 1 school, is receiving the same allocation of funds for lunches for the school year 2011-12 as it did for the school year 2010-11 when it has increased in total student numbers by 47 from that period which should have meant a rise of at least €51.80 per day. [26666/11]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The School Meals Programme operated by the Department of Social Protection gives funding towards the provision of food services for disadvantaged children through two schemes. The first is the statutory Urban School Meals Scheme, operated by local authorities and part-financed by this Department. The second is the School Meals Local Projects Schemes through which funding is provided directly to participating schools and local and voluntary community groups who run their own school meals projects. As the budget allocation for the School Meals Programme has not increased in recent years, it is not possible at this time to increase the level of funding provided to individual schools. The application for increased funding under the School Meals Local Projects Scheme made by this school is being retained on file by the Department and may be considered for additional funding at a future date, should such additional funding for the scheme become available.