Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation

10:25 am

Dr. Eddie Murphy:

It is the absence of parental knowledge. It is about empowering parents to support their children. By creating awareness around what is normal weight, children who are in trouble with their weight are weighed during their contact with the health and education services. When they are weighted we have the data to say there is a difficulty.

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