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

Photo of Catherine NooneCatherine Noone (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have a final comment and I am sorry for taking up so much time. I have to leave shortly. Holland uses glass bottles of a type that can be engraved by children. I do not know if they are fully glass but obviously they are safe. It is teaching children how to engrave them and it is making water cool. It has been amazingly effective in that country. That is in the report of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly, which I can forward to the witnesses. It would be an interesting report for anybody working in this area because it gives an outward perspective. In the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly we normally speak to each other about what is happening in the different jurisdictions but I said there was no point in us talking to each other about this because we really do not know what we are doing about it in the British Isles. However, that was one interesting thing which might be considered.

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