Mr. Kevin McPartlan:

I am happy to. In the three-page document in which we presented our opening statement, one paragraph refers to schools. The reason it is one paragraph is that I cannot control what happens in a school, nor can the food industry. We are talking about our responsibility and the role we can play, are playing and will continue to play. We mentioned the schools issue as part of the support for the A Healthy Weight for Ireland route map, which refers to a whole-of-school approach. It is not that I am unaware of the importance of schools in this, but the reason we did not focus heavily on it in our document is that to do so would be for us to abdicate responsibility. We want to play our role and do what we can. We can talk reformulation, packaging and marketing codes.

I will deal with each of the Deputy's points.

Vending machines in schools were mentioned. No member of Food Drink Ireland and no food company of which I am aware in Ireland operates vending machines in schools.