Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Photo of Anne RabbitteAnne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

And hospitals - everywhere. We should start with schools because officials from the Department of Education and Skills are present. We cannot write policy such as the White Paper and not be real about it. Schools see it as an income stream they cannot lose. We are talking about children's health and that message needs to be relayed from the top down. The children are not in control and we have to support them. That is my final message on that.

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