Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Chris Macey:

In terms of water, we conducted a study of schools some time ago that showed that a high proportion of them had no free drinking water; we were able to extrapolate from our research that in it was easier at the time to get Coca Cola from a vending machine in many of the same schools than it was to get free drinking water. We have done some work around that. We have been assured that there is money available to schools to put free drinking water in place for pupils. We believe that the situation has improved somewhat since then.

In terms of healthy vending-----