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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Eamonn Coghlan's programme is in place also.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: That issue is not on the agenda today. We will come back to it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I call Deputy Robert Dowds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is in enough trouble already. He should-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Thank you, Ms Mulvihill. We will now take questions from members, beginning with Deputy Catherine Byrne.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: That is an important aspect of healthy eating.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I take this opportunity to welcome Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor to her first meeting of the committee.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: He might be on the front page as the playboy of the western world.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: How can we give that support?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Fitzpatrick made a comment about a possible solution. I cannot disagree with any of the comments, which were brilliant. However, we held a similar discussion here last week. Let us suppose I am in the supermarket and I have my shopping list. How do I relate it to the top shelf and the pyramid? How do we get the mindset of the mother or the father or the person doing the shopping...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: Thank you, Dr. Devlin, for your sobering and challenging presentation. I also welcome Dr. Catherine Woods, Dr. Cliodhna Foley-Nolan and Ms Emma Jane Morrissey, who are in the Visitors' Gallery.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I beg your pardon, Deputy. I have received apologies from Deputies Maloney, Ó Caoláin and Senator Henry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Deputy for his brevity. He only spoke for three minutes, which is excellent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: The final group is the special action group on obesity. I welcome Dr. John Devlin, deputy chief medical officer, Dr. Nazih Eldin from the HSE, Dr. Mary Flynn from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, and Professor Donal O'Shea who is back with us again. I invite Dr. Devlin to make his presentation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Dempsey for this thought-provoking presentation. I also thank Mr. Kelly. I invite our guests from the Irish Heart Foundation - Mr. Chris Macey, who is the foundation's head of advocacy and Ms Maureen Mulvihill, who is its head of health promotion - to address the joint committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: COM (2012) 369 is a proposal for a EU regulation on the conduct of clinical trials on medicinal products for human use and provides for the repeal of Directive 2001/20/EC. The number of applications to conduct clinical trials in Europe fell by 25% between 2007 and 2011. The costs of conducting such trials also increased in the same period. The clinical trials Directive 2001/20/EC has been...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind members and delegates and those in the Visitors Gallery to ensure mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting, as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment. We are continuing our meetings on the issue of tackling childhood obesity. There were a number of meetings on the topic before the summer recess and since we have come back which will culminate in the...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Retirements (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to change the retirement age in the civil service and public sector bodies in view of the fact that qualifying age for the State pension is set to increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43924/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the funding provided by his Department to assist in making unfinished housing estates safe and inhabitable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43925/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (11 Oct 2012)
Jerry Buttimer: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the amount of funding drawn down from his Department by each local authority for the purposes of making unfinished housing estates safe and inhabitable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43926/12]