Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Colin Regan:

During registration is the easiest time to do that. There are two periods of registration for young people with our clubs, first and foremost, when parents register to sign up their children at the start of the year. The clubs, if they have healthy eating guidelines in place, have the opportunity to make the parents aware of that. Most of them will carry information on that on their Facebook page and on their website. Second, we are accessing 142,000 young people every year through our Cúl camps, and that number is increasing year on year. We have introduced healthy eating guidelines on the registration page for parents, outlining what we expect an appropriate healthy lunch to be.

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