Call for affordable food

THE Government has been urged to introduce special supports to allow poorer families access to good-quality, affordable food.

The Healthy Food for All (HFfA) initiative said inadequate social welfare levels meant some families could not buy healthy food.

Its project co-ordinator, Sinead Keenan, said food poverty had become a real problem and was compounded by inappropriate planning which made it difficult for people to travel to suitable grocery stores.