Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is certainly a worthy clarion call. Everybody should embrace the aim of driving tobacco consumption down to very low levels by the target date. It is also about other areas of public health.

The obesity issue must be addressed. I know the Minister is very conscious of it and is trying to introduce initiatives to promote healthy eating, etc., but there is an alarming growth in the number of very young people who are obese. One in five or one in six of our children under the age of eight is obese. The figures suggest this problem will get progressively worse as time goes on even with those initiatives.

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