Mr. Karl Henry:

To wrap it up from my perspective, to answer Senator Eamonn Coghlan's question on where the show has come in six years, we have come from being half an hour on television with a couple of hundred thousand viewers to being here with those who make law on behalf of the people. We have shown through our figures that people want to get healthy. Today, we have shown the committee the way in which to do it by keeping it simple. It is easy to get lost in translation and it is easy to talk around a subject.

In terms of the sensitivity aspect of Bleep tests and weighing in schools, that is all very well if there is one child in that class who is overweight or obese. The reality is that is not the case anymore. That is gone 30 years. It is much more serious than that. We need to get over that. If the Bleep test is brought in and one has a measurement, so be it. That is one's number. The goal for that year for that PE class is to get the numbers up. At every parent-teacher meeting, one is given a talk by the teacher about how one's child is getting on in a certain subject. Why not in PE? Why not be given a number, that one's child is scoring ten, seven, six or five in a Bleep test, as we have seen in Athlone when we have done that?

We are very proud. From my perspective, in year one, when I was brought on board to be the fitness expert, I never thought that six years later I would be sitting here talking to those who put the laws in place.

We believe our seven-point plan is effective. We believe we have shown the committee that on a visual perspective across the board. We are not using statistics that get boring. We have showed the committee it works on a child's level. Our leaders are here as representatives of the adult population.

With simple steps - food, goals and exercise - changes can be made. In terms of the leaders, this is week six. The children the committee saw in the step-it-up campaign earlier are four to six weeks into it. Look at the variations and what we have changed.