Seán Kyne (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am wondering whether drugs should be included in that group of factors that impact on health. Perhaps that will be considered in future.

"Operation Transformation", which I have watched from time to time, has a role at the start of each year in trying to motivate people to get active. There was concern about body-shaming, which is always a difficult issue. There is nothing more heartening than to see videos of people who are striving to lose weight or have been on a successful journey to lose weight. It is great to see the change in their appearance and mood and everything else that goes with it. The Minister of State will have seen on Instagram a video from New York in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, in which everybody is thin. That may be of its time. How important are education and income level in the choices that people have to make in relation to healthy eating? I listened to a documentary about the UK's poorest town, which showed that level of income is an important determinant of people's ability to eat. People did not have a choice. They were not considering going out and buying fruit, vegetables and such like because they could not afford to do so. They bought fish and chips and things like that every day because it cost £3 in the local chipper. How important are income level and education in terms of healthy eating and health lifestyles?