Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chairman. I thank Mr. Lynn for giving of his time and sharing his ideas and expertise with us. This is something I am really in favour of. We need to be exploring this much more quickly because, as we all know, there is a shortage of workers in the hospitality industry right across the board, and that includes chefs. Adding chefs to the critical skills list would mean we would be able to attract more of them to our shores and that we would be able to provide better lifelines and opportunities to allow the industry to thrive. I am conscious we have gone through the time for this and we were due to start another petition a few minutes ago, so I will leave it at that. I thank both our guests for coming in and presenting the case.