Catherine Noone (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I would also like to support and commend Senator Eamonn Coghlan on his Point for Life initiative. The situation has not changed. I raised the issue of a ban on running in schools and that is when I got involved in speaking on this. It is a huge issue and a case of monkey see, monkey do. Leaders will have to get involved in this. It will not simply happen by accident that the problems related to diet and obesity will go away. I would make a novel request. Many of the leading experts in health say that the best thing one can do for one's health is to walk 10,000 steps a day. If one does that and does not go mad in the eating department, one will be healthy and maintain a healthy weight. We all - Ministers, Senators, Deputies, councillors and everybody else - should get on board and get more active in general, and children will naturally follow suit.

If the Cathaoirleach will briefly indulge me, I want to support Senators Naughton and Mullins on the issue of alcohol abuse and the report that was published. This is nothing new to me. I have been raising this issue, much to everyone's-----