Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. I am here today to listen to the contributions of Deputies and for them to feed into our work so I will certainly take the Deputy's point on board. I hear what she is saying about industry, its campaigning and marketing and the force behind it. I mentioned educational awareness, which is important. We have targeted campaigns, such as the healthy weight campaign and the new safe food campaign. There are considerable resources online. Our obesity policy and action plan, OPAP, is already a systems-based plan. We have a ten-point plan that includes the wider environment. I do take on board what the Deputy is saying. We need to be prepared for marketing and the targeting of children, the presentation of food as healthy, for example, or whatever it is, and how we target that. The work with Coimisiún na Meán will form part of that. I am certainly open to the suggestions of the committee because I know it has regular contributors. I say that to the Chair. I am completely open to any feedback.