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.