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:

It is certainly not something that would have come across our radar in primary schools. It is not something we have looked at as part of the programme. When we carry out the evaluations we look at the consumption of produce and at the same time the snack consumption. It is not just what might be in the school but what might be brought to the school in the lunch boxes. By and large, if one gets the produce piece up one finds the snack that is brought in tends to go the other way. There is a correlation between the two.