Joan Freeman (Independent)
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Where I live in Lucan there is a boys' secondary school and at lunchtime the boys go directly to the supermarket to get their lunch. There are so many of them they have to be channelled into queues at the delicatessen to buy gourmet sandwiches which cost €4 and €5 each. Can there not be some sort of deal done with supermarkets that says that while it is great business, why not promote healthy sandwiches? I witness baby-led weaning of my grandchildren. My children give their children lumps of broccoli and carrot and God knows if they are choking on them. Should education and early intervention be directed at pregnant women and young mothers because theirs are the hands that rock the cradle?

Mr. Macey said that the horse has already bolted in many cases. Can the promotion, support and education be directed at that cohort of people?