Fight begins over school milk cash

Senator Stuart Syvret was supporting Deputy Geoff Southern’s proposal being debated in the States that the Economic Development Committee takes up the funding until 2005.Finance and Economics currently foot the £184,000 annual bill, which they will honour until the end of this year, but they want to shift the onus onto Health.’To place responsibility for school milk with Health and Social Services would be for the States to adopt an irrational and dishonest policy – dishonest in that the provision of school milk is basically a means of providing support for the dairy industry, and irrational given that responsibility for the dairy industry lies with the Economic Development Committee,’ said Senator Syvret.