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

Mr. Karl Henry:

From the perspective of "Operation Transformation" it is great to see such a passionate response to our presentation. That is exactly what we hoped would happen, that our seven key points would be taken on board and would create a debate, which is great.

From my perspective, the family unit is key in terms of solving the problem.

I know on a personal level from the work we have done with parents' associations and in schools that it all comes back to the same factor. The knowledge is not there in terms of what is healthy and not healthy on a school or family level. Across the board there is a massive lack of education and knowledge.

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