Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 April 2022

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Working Conditions and Skills Shortages in Tourism and Hospitality Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Adrian Cummins:

We have started the conversation with the careers oversight group. As I said, it is not funded and that needs to happen. We need to support these businesses in going abroad. Funding was given to tourism businesses to market Ireland in order that tourism would come in. Some sort of a fund is needed to help businesses go overseas and attract labour into Ireland, as we did in the 1990s for construction, hospitality and other sectors. We need a co-ordinated, targeted approach. We have one already for the healthcare sector, for which we have targeted the Philippines and other countries in south-east Asia to attract qualified staff into Ireland to work with permits in hospitals. We should and can do that for other sectors, including hospitality and tourism.

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