Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 July 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs
Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. Kevin McPartlan:
I do not think that is an accurate representation of the reality, if the calculation is based on the entire population, because not everybody consumes the products. A fairer representation would be to say 10% of all of the sugar contained in soft drinks was removed in that time. It has had a serious impact. I have provided copies of the document which includes tables for particularly high consuming groups and the impact on them is far greater than on the average consumer.