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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Seán Crowe: I reiterate apologies have been received from Senator Hoey. Apologies have also been received from Deputy Cullinane, who has had to leave for a conference. Minutes of the committee meetings of 2 July and 3 July 2024 have been circulated among members for their consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed. The purpose of today's meeting is to consider the issue of childhood obesity with the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Seán Crowe: I thank the Minister of State. I invite Dr. Kearney to make an opening statement on behalf of Safefood.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Seán Crowe: Apologies, Deputy Shortall will have to come back in as other members are trying to get in. We can get a second round in and I will let the Deputy back in then. I call Deputy Kenny.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Seán Crowe: I thank Ms Curran and I now call Senator Kyne.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Seán Crowe: Dr. Walsh wants to come in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Seán Crowe: We resume in public session. The next speaker on the list is Deputy Cathal Crowe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Seán Crowe: Is Deputy Crowe going to defend the mammies of Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Seán Crowe: The Minister of State may wish to take up that issue for the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Seán Crowe: I have number of questions. Recently the committee travelled to the North and met some people in Ulster University who spoke about North-South co-operation on the area of obesity. The clinician who came to the meeting spoke about the things that trigger obesity. It is not just food. Why is one person hungry after a meal while another is not? They are looking at trying to identify the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Seán Crowe: There are all sorts of things we could talk about today regarding people not being able to cook so they are reliant on pizza and fast foods. People spoke about various offers available. I believe the action plan will be renewed shortly. Has the old action plan yielded tangible results? I will give an example. In 2018 the HSE reported to the committee on children similar obesity...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Seán Crowe: I am in the CHO 7 area where there is no dietitian, and that is important. If your child is obese, where do you go? You will try to get a dietitian. I made the point about a parent whose child had food disorders, so they had to go and get a skin prick for the child and they then got to the consultant. They cannot go directly to the consultant because the normal pathway is through a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Seán Crowe: The Minister of State needs to wrap up so he might have to come back to us with some of the answers on those questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Seán Crowe: I apologise. I know others probably want to come in but I am conscious of the staff here as well. That concludes the committee's meeting. I thank the Minister of State and Safefood for their engagement with the committee on this important matter. This concludes the committee's last meeting before the summer recess. I thank all the members and witnesses for their contribution to the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Family Agency (10 Jul 2024)
Mattie McGrath: With all due respect, the Minister of State's response grossly understates the underperformance of Tusla in meeting its statutory obligation to protect the country's most vulnerable children in State care. Tusla's dysfunction is hiding in plain sight, as was pointed out to those present on 13 June in the Dáil public petitions committee meeting by the Alliance of Birth Mothers...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Family Agency (10 Jul 2024)
Colm Burke: If I may just respond to the Deputy, in relation to 33 children missing, the whereabouts are unknown in relation to the 33. However, ten of them have actually been in contact. Ten out of the 33 have been in contact but their whereabouts are still not known, just to put it into perspective. There is close co-operation between the Garda and Tusla. Operation Cosnaím was set up and,...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Family Agency (10 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Deputy is not here for the second matter. I am moving on to the third, in ainm an Teachta David Stanton.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (10 Jul 2024)
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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (10 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for being here this morning. It is great to see a Minister from the Department here. I congratulate him on his promotion and wish him the very best in the weeks, months and hopefully years ahead. This is an issue I have been raising for quite some time. I am lucky enough to represent a constituency that is growing rapidly. A lot of houses are being built...
- Prelude (10 Jul 2024)