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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: And keep it as normal as possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: The norm I talk about is the setting. The other representatives we had in, for example, from the various teaching unions, stated they felt the stigmatisation, the bullying aspect and all of that. I believe that if the normalisation starts at the early intervention years, it is just normal. It is part of the data. It is the collection of it. It is no different. We are one of the few...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Is that every week of the 38 weeks in the year or is it diluted by being part of the SPHE and CPHE so that it works out being for a quarter of the year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: How is recruitment and retention of PE teachers? Is there a shortage at present?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: There was reference to sports halls and the witnesses spoke eloquently about the €8.4 billion under the NDP. If we were to link on from the early years, primary and post-primary, many of the schools on the western seaboard do not have gym facilities that we talk about. I talk about the leaking roof in my school in Portumna, but it is classroom spaces we are supposed to be talking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: How much funding is left aside every year for older schools that need to make refurbishments solely in sports halls or outdoor space areas? Up the road from me, Tynagh national school had lumps of stone in its field, as in its safe play area, and it could not get it included under the minor works scheme. I am trying to figure out where physical activity and safety are balanced against...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: The latter half of the NDP is 2027.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: We will have lost a complete cycle of children before we ever start.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I second that proposal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I am from Galway and I regularly hear about this issue. Deputy Neville is from Limerick and the Acting Chair, Senator Noone, is from Mayo. This is happening across the board.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I have a question on the vending machines for the Department of Education and Skills. Representatives of secondary schools and parents have told the committee that some schools are using vending machines to supplement income and it was an income stream for them. I was shocked and the Acting Chairman will bear me out. The witnesses have spoken about policy and everything else. Vending...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: And hospitals - everywhere. We should start with schools because officials from the Department of Education and Skills are present. We cannot write policy such as the White Paper and not be real about it. Schools see it as an income stream they cannot lose. We are talking about children's health and that message needs to be relayed from the top down. The children are not in control and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thoroughly agree with every word Ms O'Flaherty has said. However, I was shocked that it was seen as an income stream on the back of children's health. We know that even if it is a 60:40 spread, the 40% will sell very fast and be replenished fairly quickly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I agree it is not good enough, particularly when it is treated as an income stream. That was said here by a member of the boards of management delegation or a representative of the union. I cannot remember exactly the group.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Does the Department have the data from the schools given that it is aware of the income stream? Is the Department aware of the schools that have vending machines?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I think it will come to naming and shaming. As elected representatives, it is down to us. I will have no problem in naming and shaming the post primary schools that have vending machines in breach of healthy guidelines.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I would name. It arises from a parliamentary question. There are many ways to skin a cat to get the information out there. It needs to be done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: It is an income stream which shows that there is a serious shortfall for schools.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I will continue from where Deputy Neville finished. He was exactly in my vein as I was going to ask about ICT and data. First and foremost, how long did it take the data to be compiled, and could they be taken from one direct point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: How many sources or points did the commission have to go to in order to get the data?