Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Colin Regan:

I was a member of the Healthy Ireland Council, representing the GAA for the past three years, under the chairmanship of Keith Wood. I remember hearing that preschool children are exposed to 1,000 ads for unhealthy foods per annum. How can they possibly want anything else if the advertising works?