Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Colin Ryan:

The key issue is whether it is for the sale of food for consumption off the premises. That is the test, as I understand it. It may be that people can go in and sit down, but if its daily work is for the sale of hot food for consumption off the premises, that has been seen as being a takeaway because, by definition, people are taking away food from the premises for consumption off the premises.