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

Ms Orla Twomey:

I am happy to answer the question. As I stated, we looked at that when we did our last code review on high fat high sugar rules. After a two-year consultation, we were at the stage where we needed to launch the new code but we undertook at the time that we would come back on this. The Department of Health and the working group process started at that point, however, and we became involved in that. We were not trying to shy away from this area. Rather than having parallel approaches, we felt it was better to see where the Department of Health approach went and to work with that.