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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: We always talk about schools. It is all about nipping the problem in the bud. The Points for Life initiative is about A, B and C, namely, agility, balance, co-ordination and cardiovascular skills. Food Dudes and other such programmes also come into play. Schools are getting hit with everything but they do not want bleep tests because they do not want to show one child up against another....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: Who does Dr. Orsmond blame if a child is eating crisps or going into a petrol station somewhere with a parent and buying a big breakfast roll?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: Who does Dr. Orsmond blame for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: She cannot blame the Government. She cannot blame TDs or Senators. We must blame the parent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: Correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: I have lost my train of thought - I was on a runner at the time. The point I was making is that it is all fine coming with all the information in the suggestions and in the seven-point plan that was discussed, which is something about which we all know, but the issue is how we implement change. There must be paradigm shift in thinking among a number of Departments in order for action to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: Yes. I will come back later to the Points for Life initiative and where it is at now. When I visited schools I met the principals the physical education teachers and one of the questions I asked was where physical education sits in terms of priority on the syllabus in primary school. It is at the bottom. Where does the physical well-being of the children who are going to school sit in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: I welcome the witnesses from "Operation Transformation" and the team leaders. Although not a member of the committee I wanted to listen to the conversation that has taken place. The presentation was the most inspiring I have witnessed in any of the committees on which I have sat in recent years. In regard to the restaurant, I do not think the issue is the calorie count but to go light on...

Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: I welcome the Minister to the House. It is probably not best to speak last because everything that has been said were words I was going to utter. This is like déja vu because on 26 May last, we had a similar debate on this motion. I am somewhat confused because I cannot understand how the motion is reappearing, particularly at a time when the National Lottery Bill 2012 is being debated in...

Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: In any event, I hope all Members have bought their lottery tickets because in one hour we will go into a draw. I remember when the then Minister, Donal Creed, introduced the national lottery in the 1980s. At the time, the funds were to go to sports and the arts. I am delighted to say that sport has definitely benefited throughout the years. In the London Olympic Games we saw the great...

Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: -----where no licence is enforced, the regulator can hold and procure the holding of the national lottery to ensure the national lottery is run with all due propriety; to ensure the interests of the participants in the national lottery are protected; to ensure revenues allocated to good causes are as great as possible; and to monitor and enforce compliance by the operators. The Minister has...

Seanad: National Lottery: Motion (13 Feb 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: I did not realise that.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: I too pay tribute to Senator Martin McAleese. I got to know him long before we were nominated to the Seanad by the Taoiseach. We spent many an hour running around the Phoenix Park when he lived in Áras an Uachtaráin. I found him to be an honourable and decent gentleman who had time, respect and compassion for everybody who came to be in his company. He may have been a man of few words...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Gay Mitchell, MEP (24 Jan 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: I welcome Mr. Mitchell to the Seanad. When we think of celebrating 40 years of membership of the EU, some people might think that is quite a long time ago but when one is of our vintage, it seems like it was a very short time ago. Ireland has gone through a huge transformation in those 40 years in terms of our economy, the infrastructure to which Mr. Mitchell alluded such as the roads...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Gay Mitchell, MEP (24 Jan 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: -----knocking on doors trying to build his political career. The success of his political career has been referred to. I ran around the streets of Drimnagh and Walkinstown for other reasons but I was not successful at that whatsoever.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Gay Mitchell, MEP (24 Jan 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: Our lives have come full circle. Mr. Mitchell mentioned the solidarity among the member states and their people. Where there may not be solidarity among the member states is on the issue of our corporate tax rate of 12.5%. Is there a great difference among the rates of all 27 member states? Ours is the lowest. Mr. Mitchell referred also to the disproportionality of our representation in...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: I call on the Minister for Health to indicate if there are any plans to examine this entire area in the near future with a view to improving working conditions and preventing these junior doctors emigrating.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2013)

Eamonn Coghlan: I was recently at a sports event at which I noticed a young man performing very poorly. I asked his coach the question, "What is going wrong with young Johnny?," to which he replied the shift work was killing him. I asked him what he meant by "shift work" and he said that Johnny was a doctor. I thought it would be appropriate for me to highlight the plight of junior doctors working in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Eamonn Coghlan: What about the Senator's false allegations?

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Eamonn Coghlan: In my opening remarks this time last year, perhaps on this day last year, when I stated "Britton conquered Europe", I was referring not to economic affairs in Europe, but to young Fionnuala Britton who happened to win the European Cross Country Championships for Ireland. It would be remiss of me if I did not mention this young lady again today because on Sunday last, she won the European...