Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Mike Neary:

We have carried out evaluations of the Food Dudes programme, particularly phase 2, which runs for a number of weeks, and of getting the parents to be involved with children and to provide the products to be brought to the school. Parents have said in our surveys that they have increased their own consumption because they have to fill the lunch box to be brought to the school. It is not just what is happening in the school but trying to push that back into the home.