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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Tom Neville: ...follows on from the Chairman's line of questioning. When I was on the local authority, I was given guidelines in regard to planning but the way those guidelines were interpreted by the executive and the councillors often clashed. Will a specific directive be given in this regard to guide people? As was said, anomalies arise all the time as economic environments change. The witnesses...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Tom Neville: I have reservations about taking a nanny state approach to this in that we could throw the baby out with the bath water, particularly in rural areas, although it might be different in city areas. However, a rural area could have a local supermarket with a takeaway beside it, depending on the definition of a takeaway. One footfall creates the other, and it is all integrated, which is the way...