'We end up giving them to our dogs' — Flood of complaints about quality of hot school meals

Correspondence from parents seen by the 'Irish Examiner' lays out a litany of complaints from 'out of date meals' to 'incorrect allergen information'

A parent who complained about allergen information in school mails said a label on 'vegan sweet and sour with rice' noted that it contained eggs and 'may contain bone or bone fragments'. File picture

Parents have told the Department of Social Protection that they are feeding their children’s hot school meals to their dogs amid a raft of furious complaints about the quality of the food.

Correspondence from parents, sent to the department and obtained by the Irish Examiner, shows concerns about out-of-date food, highly calorific meals, and a child "put at risk” due to allergen mis-labelling.