MPs debate effectiveness of 'back to basics' school lunches | TVNZ Breakfast

Both Labour's Kieran McAnulty and National's Chris Bishop agreed it was a "good thing" that more children would be fed following changes to the Healthy School Lunches Programme.
Associate Education Minister David Seymour said the Government will feed the same number of school students and extend the Healthy School Lunches Programme to 10,000 preschoolers.
Seymour said his scheme would spend $107 million less than the Labour Government by ordering items in bulk.
Speaking to Breakfast this morning, National's Chris Bishop said the Government's changes to the school lunch programme created savings by stripping it "back to basics".
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[@richardaustin3403]

15k pay rise- more than a benefit per. Year- 50k to update pm office, 300b for landlords to pay for this lets cut kids lunches, 5000 plus to lose jobs and they say this is what we want? A cruel government. More people to the bottom

[@robvanderveen3411]

Wish this program was around when I was a kid, should double the spending not cut it. Every dollar spent will have huge down stream social benefits, way better investment than tax cuts for the wealthy landlords

[@user-wt4ie6iu6p]

Absolutely STUPID calling food woke...

[@Peter-kk6rg]

3 billion taxpayers dollars to landlords

[@itsintheballot3644]

On enrolling to vote, there is often misconceptions of how long you need to live in the electorate before you can vote in it, being 28 days, but some think the time period is much much longer so don't undate enrolment details based on incorrect information then last minute enrol once set straight with the correct information

[@daniellintern3227]

Sushi isn't "woke"?

[@sphinx1017]

Stupid politics. Are voters stupid enough to suck this up?