Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion

9:30 am

Professor Cecily Kelleher:

We have a group of schools with which we have been working from the beginning. We follow the obesity protocols in which we primarily measure height, weight and waist circumference in the privacy of the school classroom with the consent of the parents and the assent of the child. Those are the core data we collect. We also have a questionnaire for the families of the seven year old which gives us more details about the circumstances of the family, including issues around soft drinks and dietary intake.