Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 July 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Childhood Obesity: Discussion

9:30 am

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

From his involvement with local authorities, Senator Conway may very well find there is resistance from ratepayers in some local authority areas to these markets being opened up. This is something that local authorities have to deal with. We have no difficulty in engaging with local authorities and encouraging them to do more work in this area. The response we are likely to get from local authorities is that unless they get a request for facilities to be made available, they are unlikely to do anything. The request would have to come in from them first-----

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