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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Crown should keep going. He is doing well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Crown is misrepresenting the position.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We will not get into a political battle on it. Senator Crown is misrepresenting the vote. I call Deputy McLellan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We will resume in public session. Senator Eamonn Coghlan was in possession.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I should point out that the Senator was a witness at our hearings on obesity late last year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Thank you, Senator. You have been speaking for four minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I will bring the Senator in later.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise, Senator Coghlan, as there is a vote in the Dáil. We will suspend the sitting. I apologise to the leaders and the experts. Votes are part of democracy and we have no control over when they are called.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Why is that the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We will keep the love going this morning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Catherine Byrne asked if the lifestyle and eating habits of the witnesses' families and friends have changed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Does anybody want to answer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Are Members aware the restaurant here, as a consequence of politicians taking part in "Operation Transformation" a few years ago, has an "Operation Transformation" option on the menu? If Members agree, we will write to the House services committee asking it to consider the possibility, in the medium to long term, of including a calorie content on the menu. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Will Dr. Murphy reply to those questions? There are five members offering.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Byrne's point is very valid that the parents are the key.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The barrier to progress is that parents do not take responsibility and I do not mean-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We will not go back to a particular individual.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy has made her point well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We will come back to that point later.