Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 October 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed)

10:20 am

Photo of Jerry ButtimerJerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I thank the witnesses for their attendance. On a personal level, I thank Ms Fiona Gilligan who is in the Visitors Gallery. She is the director of marketing and communications for safefood. She was the liaison person with Members of the Oireachtas for the Weigh 2 Live campaign and with Operation Transformation. She has done trojan work and I thank her for that. One of safefood's most successful campaigns, as well as the Weigh 2 Live, was the "Take On the Takeaway" challenge on television. That showed one could beat the takeaway in terms of the quality of the food as well as the cost and time.