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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Catherine Noone: I think so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Catherine Noone: That is the crux of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Catherine Noone: I indicated earlier. I thank the witnesses for coming before us today and telling the stories because that is what makes it feel real. I have lived it myself so I know what this is about. It is not just about having bad parents. I had great parents. Sometimes it gets to a point where it is a case of this being an issue. As I mentioned in the previous session, we do not want to give them...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Catherine Noone: We need to face up to the fact that there is a lifestyle issue here. We are well down a very unhealthy and catastrophic road where young people will die before their parents. I have been talking about this until I am blue in the face and I believe that we, as a Government and society, are not doing enough. Every time I suggest some measure, and I think it is going to have to come from so...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Catherine Noone: As professionals in this area, are the witnesses satisfied the Healthy Ireland framework has sufficient measures but they just need to be implemented?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Catherine Noone: We spoke previously with the Irish Heart Foundation on a public health (obesity) Bill to implement many of these measures. Do the witnesses believe such legislation could work, even if it is potentially unpopular?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Catherine Noone: Should the sugar tax be extended? We are seeing results before it has even been implemented. Should it be extended to confectionery and high-sugar and high-fat foods? At this point, we can see the efficacy of the sugar tax in the fact that reformulation is happening on a grand scale. We heard much about that in the UK recently. Should we be heading down that road or is it too difficult?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Catherine Noone: I have run into that a good few times.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Catherine Noone: Why would they?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Catherine Noone: It is too slow.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Catherine Noone: Is that in Ireland now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)
Catherine Noone: May I make a point?
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Electronic Cigarettes (24 Apr 2018)
Catherine Noone: The Minister of State, Deputy McGrath, has seen the debate. I know it is an issue close to his heart, pardon the pun. In light of international studies that have found that smokers who use e-cigarettes tend to smoke less and have increased attempts to quit, what research is being conducted here to test the effectiveness of e-cigarettes in helping Irish smokers quit the habit? The Minister...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Electronic Cigarettes (24 Apr 2018)
Catherine Noone: I know the Minister of State did not draft it but I find the response somewhat unsatisfactory. For some time there has been talk that there is not enough evidence in this regard but our nearest neighbours have plenty of evidence to make a policy decision on this issue. I understand these other methods are good and I am personally in favour of the idea of group behavioural therapy,...
- Seanad: Education (Welfare) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)
Catherine Noone: Next Tuesday.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Catherine Noone: I thank the delegates for attending and the work they are doing. While I found Dr. McCrory's presentation fascinating and applaud him for the work he does, having worked on the issue of obesity for some years, it is my view that it is only now gaining some traction and being taken seriously. That is unfortunate because it has been evident for ten or 15 years that this problem, which is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Catherine Noone: Do we not have targets? I am not sure if it is fair to make that argument.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Catherine Noone: Precisely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Catherine Noone: It took a generation and a half, perhaps two, to reach this point. I was involved in a report produced by the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly. We visited Amsterdam because the Netherlands was ahead of us in the sense that only one in five Dutch children was heading in the direction Irish children were heading. The big issue is patience and knowing that the problem will take time to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2018)
Catherine Noone: Is that not the key issue?