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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: I appreciate that a positive message might work better but it probably would be no harm, given how harmful those drinks have been proven to be in many studies, to have an awareness campaign or something similar within the GAA because it is uniquely positioned to do that. It would be great for children to understand at that early age that these types of sugar-laden, high-caffeine drinks...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: Senator Warfield mentioned the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill. We should have a public health obesity or sugar Bill or something along those lines and take similar measures when it comes to advertising junk food and other foods that have a high sugar, fat and salt content. In the overall context, does Mr. Regan believe such a measure would be effective? For example, parents have mentioned to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: One parent who has four children told me that one Christmas, one of his children got ten selection boxes in the run-up to Christmas at various events, including GAA events. Should there be a policy or is there a need to introduce legislation in this respect? I get slagged all the time for adopting too much of a nanny-state approach on this issue but we might need to nanny the state a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: I am queen nanny of Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: I just love it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: And social media is a big problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: And sugary food.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: How does Mr. Regan do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: Mr. Regan may have covered this aspect and if he has my apologies. Are they given any nutritional information? I appreciate that Cúl camps are activity based but one will never out-train a bad diet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: I do not want to denigrate or be dismissive of the work the GAA does in the area of developmental goals. It is fantastic. Is there a captive audience? As my colleague said, we have that metric of 142,000, and it is increasing. Is there an opportunity to provide those young people with a few hours education on nutrition.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: I would not suggest Mr. Regan should tell them what they should not do. It would just be some education for them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: That is a good one for our information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: That is part of the requisite education-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: -----in that it is not expensive to eat healthily. Examples such as that referred to by Mr. Regan regarding the home economics professional, whom I know, and such positive messages about how inexpensive it can be to eat healthily are helpful. There might be a possibility for the pairing up of safefood Ireland with the GAA in its Cúl camps for a short percentage of the time. It is all...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: I do not feel I have had enough time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: I have two brief questions. Does Mr. Regan find in lower socioeconomic areas that he has to make more of an effort or does he make a similar effort?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: That is good to know. Insurance concerns in schools are an issue. I did some work on this a few years ago. Mr. Regan was talking about schools and developmental goals and getting them moving for the 60 minutes a day. What of the anecdotal evidence that certain schools are stopping children from running?