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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank the delegates for their presentations. It is not just digital marketing that targets children. Last week I was very critical of the "Big Big Movie" because of how it was marketed on RTÉ One. To move on from it, I have read the delegates' submissions in depth and prepared a number of questions. My first question is for Mr. Macey who mentioned that a healthy diet could be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: My next question is about the no-fry zones around schools and other jurisdictions. Are there studies which show the outcomes of having no-fry zones? A study on a ban on vending machines in French schools showed a reduction of between 20 and 120 calories in daily calorific intake. Is that meaningful? It is a very small number of calories. It may be a step in the right direction but I wish...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: The small amount of research I have done, which is nothing like that carried out by the witnesses, revealed that some children in secondary school do not have the opportunity to participate in PE. Is that indicated in the research the witnesses have carried out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: I have found that the two hours per week timetabled by the Department on the curriculum is not available to some children in school. As regards team sport, in which all schools like to participate, is it healthy for children to have to take part in team sports during their lunch hour whereby they have to cram in their food and flip between one session of school and going back in for the next?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: If we are to teach children anything about life, we must to teach them that they must make time to eat and that one's body cannot be maintained without fuel. The idea of the curriculum is to teach them a positive message in that regard. I ask Professor Sharry to explain the outcomes and measuring in terms of the Parents Plus healthy family programme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: What are Dr. Sharry's observations on it? He meets a number of families who come together and they start from whatever point. What are the results like? Can he give us some examples?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank Dr. Sharry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Having this conversation on obesity at this committee is a step in the right direction. Previous speakers set the stage. Those involved have set out what they need and what they want to move it forward. Sometimes at committee meetings I wonder what the witnesses want or need. I thank Dr. Murphy because she told us what she needs and wants to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Is the child's flexibility measured? Do we measure their flexibility to ensure that they can participate in sport, and that their measurements are good? Does Professor Kelleher know what I am talking about?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Absolutely
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: I suppose I am no different from Senator Noone in that I have done my own little bit of research. Mine focuses solely on flexibility and mobility and the role the transition year, TY, programme could play with first years such as measuring them when they come in and seeing how they do at the end of the year. That is a way of giving control back and it is peer led. It would be wonderful to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: All right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Will Dr. Murphy explain further the behaviour model for managing and preventing mild or moderate obesity and what type of resources in terms of healthcare staff would be needed to deliver it? She mentioned a public health nurse earlier. Does she want to expand on that because in that case the intervention by the public health nurse was a key factor?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Do I have one minute left?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: I will try and get three questions into one. I have been very vocal about marketing. It is not just digital marketing. It is all forms and across all platforms. I would be very interested to hear what Professor O'Shea thinks about that. I must also bring in the children's hospital. I am led to believe that a fast food unit is sponsoring a particular unit within it. I have a huge issue...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Yes, exactly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: I will finish with a question about funding for the clinical lead and everything else. Do the witnesses have enough funding to do the job they are doing, because they are doing significant work? Would it not be far better if McDonald's were to give the €1.5 million to the work being done by the witnesses instead of targeting children?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Recent research shows we plateaued out in respect of this 2015. Did certain policy interventions get us to that stage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (18 Apr 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Will anybody from DEIS be coming in because we heard a lot about intervention today. That is a key piece for me. Have we considered DEIS at all?