PE investment would tackle obesity epidemic, says TUI

PROPER PE funding would tackle our ‘obesity epidemic’, claim the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI).

The TUI has called on the Department of Education and Science to introduce a sustained multi-annual funding campaign to replace and upgrade PE equipment in second level schools.

TUI president, Tim O’Meara said: “Appropriate, sustained investment in physical education could be returned to the Irish economy a hundred times over by cutting millions off future health budgets.