Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Ms Kate O'Flaherty:

Normalising, yes. I would not disagree with Deputy Rabbitte in terms of how we normalise. We said there are many behaviours that we need to normalise but we are a little way off that in terms of people's understanding about being able to explain to them their child is overweight and what that means for them, and in a supportive way what they might do about it. There are challenges in terms of moving that norm forward, but I would not disagree with the Deputy that the ECCE setting is more open.