Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Mike Neary:

I will comment from the Food Dudes perspective. I will talk about the penetration first. The programme has very significant penetration. The national roll-out started in 2007 and was completed in 2015. It went to 98% of the schools in the country and approximately 475,000 school children. In 2015 we upgraded the programme to what was called the Food Dudes Boost programme and by the end of this school year in 2018 we will have covered nearly 1 million school children and had 6,000 school interactions. The coverage is significant. Our next step in the programme over the coming three years is to look at what we call a maintenance programme where once a school joins it stays in the programme unless it wishes to leave. The aim is to have 2,100 schools in the programme on an ongoing basis and approximately 300,000 children.

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