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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The Deputy is right. There is a great deal of misinformation around what is healthy food. A great deal of work is being done within the Department to get the message out there to people who want to cut back on or improve their diet in some shape or form. There is also misinformation about obesity in general. Often, the individual is blamed and people say that he or she is overweight...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Unfortunately, everything comes back to the education system, but schools are doing good work in the form of physical activity and getting kids active. Healthy Ireland is investing a great deal of money in local communities. What is particularly good about this funding is that it is not just going to projects that blanket the country. Rather, it goes into towns and villages in every local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Healthy eating guidelines have been developed for schools. We have the school meals programme within schools. We also have campaigns around healthy eating. It is important to target the schools. Sometimes, children are the best messengers and take home the message about healthy eating and what constitutes a balanced diet. Schools have the SPHE and well-being programmes. In terms of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: We provide training through the RCSI. The Deputy is right about this being a sensitive issue, and we have to be mindful of the stigma. We also have children’s services for weight management and treatment. It comes down to training healthcare professionals – there is a roll-out of such training – in how to manage situations like a GP having to talk to parents.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The Deputy is right. I am even hearing from people in the arts that, since Covid, people are not going to the theatre as much. People are engaging in different types of activity and their patterns have changed. Staying at home and drinking may be an issue. We need to do more about this topic. I would be open to suggestions from members. We have to look at how people socialise now. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Yes, and maybe we could do more, but schools have the SPHE programme, healthy eating initiatives and the school meals programme. If members have ideas or suggestions, I would be open to them. The schools are doing good work, but we cannot rest on our laurels. The facts are there in terms of the number of children who are obese and overweight. It is not just up to the education system,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Chair. He raised an important point around cooking and people's ability. Sometimes people and families are time poor with both parents working. Through the Sláintecare healthy communities initiative, there are programmes to help people within certain communities around the country. They are designed in particular to help mothers to prepare meals. The issue in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy. I am here today to listen to the contributions of Deputies and for them to feed into our work so I will certainly take the Deputy's point on board. I hear what she is saying about industry, its campaigning and marketing and the force behind it. I mentioned educational awareness, which is important. We have targeted campaigns, such as the healthy weight campaign and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The engagement is happening now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I am just stating the fact of where we are. Coimisiún na Meán has just been established. Officials in the Department are now engaging with it. We could not have engaged with it a year ago because it was not-----

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) 2024: First Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: No.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: Tuesday's business shall be: - Motion re Report of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach under Dáil Standing Order 133 on a Proposal for a Council Directive on Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT), COM(2023)532 (without debate) - Road Traffic Bill 2024 (Second Stage) (if not previously concluded, to adjourn either...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office (13 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The Household Budget Survey (HBS) is a large national household survey conducted by the Central Statistics Office on a five yearly basis. It collects information on household’s expenditure on goods and services. HBS 2015/2016 indicated that the average weekly household expenditure on Medical expenses/services and therapeutic equipment for that period was €18.48, equivalent to...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office (13 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: In Census 2022, the reference person in each private household is the first person in the household identified as a parent, spouse, cohabiting partner or head of a non-family household containing related persons. Where no person in the household satisfied these criteria, the first usually resident person was used as the reference person. In this context, the reference person is referred to as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (13 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Thank you for your query in relation to Folic Acid Supplementation. As indicated in a previous written response issued in October 2023, the recommendations of the 2019 DOH Folic Acid Supplementation Report remain under consideration by the Department. Critically, it is recognised that as dietary intake of folate remains sub optimal In Ireland, all women considering pregnancy take a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The free contraception scheme for women aged 17 -25, ordinarily resident in Ireland, was launched on 14th September, 2022. Its remit has been expanded gradually to include women aged from 17 to 31 inclusive, from January 1st, 2024. Approximately €43.9m has been allocated to support the scheme in 2024 and approximately 2,400 GPs, primary care, family planning and student health centres...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The free contraception scheme for women aged 17 -25, ordinarily resident in Ireland, was launched on 14th September, 2022. Its remit has been expanded gradually to include women aged from 17 to 31 inclusive, from January 1st, 2024. Approximately €43.9m has been allocated to support the scheme in 2024 and approximately 2,400 GPs, primary care, family planning and student health centres...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I add my own on tribute to that of our former Taoiseach and party leader and to the deserved praise already given by my colleagues in the House today. I first of all extend my sympathies to John’s wife, Finola, his son, Matthew, and his daughters, Juliana, Emily and Mary-Elizabeth. I note in particular the presence on the benches today of his brother, Richard, someone who is held in...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (7 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders - - expressions of sympathy on the death of former Taoiseach, Mr. John Bruton, shall be taken now and on the conclusion of expressions of sympathy, the Dáil shall adjourn until 9 a.m. tomorrow; - the Government business to be taken tomorrow shall be Second Stage of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment)...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office (7 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Up to 2020, the CSO employed two survey instruments at airports and seaports to compile statistics on overseas visitors to Ireland. These were the Country of Residence Survey (CRS) and Passenger Card Inquiry (PCI). The former differentiated air and sea passengers into outbound Irish residents and inbound foreign residents. The latter collected additional details from passengers, including the...