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- 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?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: Marathon in a month - that type of thing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Catherine Noone: To get them moving.