Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Photo of Tom NevilleTom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have reservations about taking a nanny state approach to this in that we could throw the baby out with the bath water, particularly in rural areas, although it might be different in city areas. However, a rural area could have a local supermarket with a takeaway beside it, depending on the definition of a takeaway. One footfall creates the other, and it is all integrated, which is the way local environments seem to be going. I do not know if there is one vast solution to it. As Mr. Ryan said, there is no real definition of what constitutes a takeaway, or what constitutes a healthy or an unhealthy takeaway.

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