There's a call to introduce a tax on all junk food.
It's after a report by the UK’s Chief Medical Officer recommended a tax on unhealthy food there to tackle childhood obesity.
Ireland currently has a sugar tax on drinks with a total sugar content of five grams or more per 100 millilitres.
That's something Professor Donal O'Shea, the HSE Clinical Lead on Obesity, would like to see extended to ultra-processed foods.
"We have reached a point now where we have an absolute health crisis day to day with trollies in every emergency department in the country.
"That is driven by what we eat and drink. I think we should tax that, and ringfence that tax income to generate the capacity that we need in our health service."
