Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion

9:30 am

Ms Jennifer Feighan:

Yes. There is work going on in the HSE around the healthy eating and active living programme in terms of rolling out the food pyramid. New guidelines were developed last year. A whole load of work goes into it. One of those things is to encourage healthy vending. The other is to encourage healthy school menus to ensure the nutrition that children get in schools is optimised. A subgroup has been established to look at nutrition for children from birth to five years. As part of the healthy eating and active living programme the curriculum is being developed to give guidance to schools.