Catherine Noone (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The witnesses are dealing with the worst situations. We, as policy makers, are conscious of both children and adults and how an obese child can end up an obese adult; even if their mother is obese when she pregnant, there is a high likelihood that the child will be obese. A very interesting point was made about water. On a positive note, one thing we got from Amsterdam was that it got these bottles, got children to design engraving and made drinking water cool rather than just acceptable or knowledgeable. Drinking water has become cool because they have these special bottles. If as a society, we work on all the little things, eventually, with a lot of patience and hard work, this issue might start to reduce rather than increase.