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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: I would like to ask about the role played by supermarkets and food producers. We will have a lot of these people before the committee. In advance of that, I am interested in Dr. O'Malley's perception of their role in this regard. I did some research on the deals available in supermarkets and how likely they are to drive consumer purchasing. Does Dr. O'Malley have any comments to make on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: Dr. O'Malley mentioned the sugar tax. Obviously its efficacy remains to be seen. Does she think we need to have a sugar tax on more of the items available in shops? Experts have said that if there is one item we should tax, it would be sugar-sweetened drinks. The big effect of that, even in advance of the tax's implementation, is the reformulation. A lot less sugar is going into foods...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: What is happening with teeth? I hear about children having operations. Although I have not spoken to her in a long time, I have a friend who is a paediatric dentist. Children are having a lot of their baby teeth removed and then having their adult teeth removed. Does Dr. O'Malley deal with that? Obviously she is not in the dental area, but a referral from her must often be made to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: She would have the same views as Dr. O'Malley about the part-time nature of her role.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: It is hard to be a healthy adult when teeth are compromised at a very young age.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: I could be here all day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: Foreign.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: I have no problem with the nanny state policies, as my colleague knows well. I got an award recently for being Queen Nanny from a smoking group and actually turned up to receive it. I am all for whatever measures need to be put in place. There is a fine line between us actually taking over the parenting of children as a Government. Once a child is obese, it will be an issue for them in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: It could even be more than that. Dr. O'Malley is the expert but I would say that once those fat cells are created, the person is constantly fighting that. They are fighting their body's wish to get back to what it was. I have heard Professor Donal O'Shea talk about the body's memory and wanting to get back to that space. It is clearly so important that we deal with this. Bariatric...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: And the adults as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: If anything, the attitude is worse.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: When Dr. O'Malley says stigma, she means the stigma that health professionals working in the HSE or in the services generally display towards adults or children with obesity-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: -----that they have eaten themselves into this situation so good luck to them. Meanwhile they must have supports in place for diabetes, cancer and all of these other conditions they will get over the course of their lifetime if something is not done at an earlier stage. It is an absurdity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: It is the end stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: A lot of the time they get it and manage to circumvent-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: We need to be really careful with the language we use in this space to say that parents are not doing well in certain circumstances. Do the witnesses think there is something to be said for the idea of having compulsory parenting programmes in this country? Is that a step too far? I have gone full-on nanny now but it is pretty serious.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: The witnesses are dealing with the worst situations. We, as policy makers, are conscious of both children and adults and how an obese child can end up an obese adult; even if their mother is obese when she pregnant, there is a high likelihood that the child will be obese. A very interesting point was made about water. On a positive note, one thing we got from Amsterdam was that it got...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service (21 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: I think we learned from the road traffic stuff that when levels plateau, the focus goes a bit and levels start to go back up again. This will take years to sort out.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: He is not going to go that far.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2018)

Catherine Noone: I too welcome the clear and unanimous decision by the Supreme Court this morning which reversed the High Court decision relating to the right to life of the unborn. It is a landmark decision and will allow us to move forward to a May referendum without delay. The only constitutional right to life is that which the Supreme Court has identified: that contained in the eighth amendment. That...