Caít Keane (Fine Gael)

Do they? I thank Senator Brennan for that information.

I ask the Minister for Health to consider setting up some facility in hospitals to educate first-time mothers. Some time ago, formula manufacturers could go into hospitals to promote their wares in little bags and hand them out to first-time mothers to disincentivise them from breast-feeding. That no longer goes on but what was not put in its place was an education facility to educate people.

One in four three year olds is overweight and one in 17 four year olds qualify as obese. This is a very serious problem in Ireland. A study carried out in Essex-----