Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 305: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of funding that each national school receives per child in respect of lunches and snacks. [28162/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The school meals programme operated by the Department provides 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.

There are 332 primary schools involved in the urban school meals scheme and over 1,100 schools, both primary and post-primary, in the school meals local projects scheme for the academic year 2011/12 providing support to over 189,000 pupils. The allocation for the programme for 2012 is €35m.

Details of the various options available under the scheme and rates of payment per child are shown in the attached following statement.

Various food options and payment per child: