Dr. Cathal McCrory:

The final point was about the success of the national screening programme. This has to do with the idea of parents not recognising their children are overweight. If we have a national screening programme where every September when the child arrives back in school, they have their BMI and waist circumference, which is a measure of central adiposity, measured, it is almost like a report card. One can see what has been happening and how the child has been developing. I agree with the concern about stigmatising children but the idea was that one would raise the matter with the parents.