Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Food Safety and Health Eating Initiatives: Safefood
10:20 am
Ms Fiona Gilligan:
We are working with the HSE in this campaign and part of what it is doing is a pilot that is currently being rolled out, under which the child will be weighed at school, those messages will be sent home to the parent to let them know what weight the child is, and if there is a problem, there may be a need to go on one of the programmes. The W82GO programme has been developed by Temple Street Children's Hospital and is being rolled out in these pilot schools. To return to the question on "Operation Transformation", that is how we are handling the children's aspect of that. It is much more sensitive, so it needs to be done in that contained environment, as opposed to on a television programme where people choose to put themselves forward.
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