Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 259: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are plans to review health and safety legislation to place a particular emphasis on healthy eating and active living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9497/08]

Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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I am responsible under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, for workplace health and safety policy. The Health and Safety Authority is responsible for the administration and enforcement of occupational health and safety legislation which is concerned with workplace health and safety. The Deputy's question raises a wider public health matter, in which my colleague the Minister for Health and Children would have major responsibilities.

My Department chairs the National Framework Committee for Work Life Balance Policies, which was established under social partnership. While the Committee is tasked with supporting work life balance policies at the level of the enterprise but its remit does not extend to specific measures such as healthy eating and active living which, as I have said, are areas in which my colleague the Minister for Health and Children would have responsibility in the first instance. Accordingly, I have no plans to review health and safety legislation along the lines suggested.

Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 260: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has had consultations with the electronic leisure industry and consumer groups with a view to revising the design, production and marketing policies surrounding products that impact on healthy eating and active living, particularly in relation to children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9498/08]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I have not had any consultations regarding the design, production and marketing policies surrounding products that impact on healthy eating and active living, particularly in relation to children. I would advise the Deputy that general policy responsibility for healthy eating and active living, including in relation to children, lies with my colleague, the Minister for Health and Children.