Mr. Adrian Cummins:

I shall respond to the question on chefs. Nine institutes of technology provide chef training programmes but there have been cutbacks in education.

It is an expensive course to run because of the amount of money needed to provide equipment in the kitchen, products and so on. There are nine institutes of technology, with approximately five other education and training boards, formerly vocational education committees, running chef training programmes. As I indicated earlier, approximately 500 people per year come out of college. In order for us to provide enough chefs for our industry, we need to double that number.

How can we do this? We can do it very simply by getting all the other education and training boards around the country to do chef training programmes straight away.