Calls are being made for the almost 900,000 children in primary and secondary schools in Ireland to receive one hot meal every day.

It’s estimated the comprehensive school dinner programme would cost €350 million per annum to run.

In 2014 there were approximately 889, 269 primary and secondary school children in the Republic of Ireland.

Unlike Northern Ireland, the rest of the UK and almost all other thirty countries in the European Union and beyond, there is not a comprehensive school meals programme in the Republic of Ireland, entitling all school children to a school dinner, either free or paid for.

We want to know, should schools provide a hot meal for children?

 

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