Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service

9:30 am

Dr. Grace O'Malley:

Some communities will have cookery programmes and other activity programmes from the physical activity co-ordinator. We can refer to those when they are accepted. The administrative time it takes to figure out what is available in every community in the country is really difficult. It would be really helpful for teams like ours that operate out of one site if there could be a national database of what is available, where it is located and the acceptance criteria to get on a programme.