Meals on Wheels should provide school lunches as suppliers withdraw from scheme - TD
Staff members Sinéad, Emily, Hannah, and Aisling in the IRD Duhallow Community Food Services cafe in Newmarket, North Cork. Having started out providing meals to just eight people in Boherbue, it now provides 850,000 meals a year, including to schools. See link at foot of this article. Picture: Larry Cummins
The Government has been urged to fund a pilot scheme that would use the Meals on Wheels network to deliver hot school meals to smaller schools that have seen their orders cancelled.
As reported by the earlier this week, thousands of children are now being left without a hot lunch because suppliers claim changes to the Government’s school meals programme make providing to small schools financially unviable.
