The Government has been urged to provide breakfast at school for all children in 800 schools in disadvantaged areas.
Just 70 cent per child per day would provide breakfast in schools for children, according to a report published by the organisation, Healthy Food for All.
It recommended that an extra €1.8m should be invested annually to help all 800 DEIS schools set up breakfast clubs.
The organisation said school infrastructure should be improved to ensure schools can provide food for students.
It also stated that training and support should be provided for schools to help them run breakfast clubs.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Healthy Food For All's project coordinator Sinead Keenan said allocating extra funds would have huge benefits.
She said: "We're asking An Tánaiste [Joan Burton] to provide an additional €1.8m to the school meals programme in next month's Budget to provide a national breakfast club programme.
"We see that there's additional benefits to providing breakfast to children. It gets them into class on time, it gets them well fed, ready to learn, so we're starting all children off on an equal footing regardless of their background."
Ms Burton visited a school in Raheny in Dublin this morning to promote the breakfast clubs.
When she was leaving, her car was blocked by a number of individuals who were angry about Labour decisions in Government and they demanded to speak to Ms Burton.
