Mr. Adrian Cummins:

My colleague, Mr. Lenehan, will speak on the transport issue in a second. I will cover the apprenticeships and the issues around accommodation for asylum seekers and the issues we have faced already with regard to that.

We are involved in apprenticeships and have been there from the beginning. We have developed it. It has taken us six years to get to where we are with cheffing apprenticeships and it has been a steep learning curve for us. It is very productive in terms of getting to the end and rolling it out. We now need to roll out delivery of the apprenticeship across the country. It is only in certain parts of the country that certain education providers provide the apprenticeship and that is an issue for us. The programmes are predominantly in Munster and they are not in the west or in Dublin for chefs de partie or sous-chefs. That means apprentice chefs in their third to sixth years must travel all the way down to Munster to get trained. That is an issue. We need the colleges in the west and in Dublin to onboard these apprentices as quickly as possible. On co-ordination, it is important we have a whole-of-agency and whole-of-government approach. There seem to be so many good organisations out there doing many things, but is there a single body that co-ordinates training and delivery for hospitality and tourism? I refer to hospitality and tourism because Fáilte Ireland does not have a role in hospitality but a role in tourism. We need to look at how the legislation might be amended to bring pubs and restaurants into its remit for delivery. I want that point to be very clear.

On accommodation for asylum seekers, our association supports the Government's effort around humanitarian provision for asylum seekers, but at the moment, in certain parts of the country, substantial amounts of accommodation have been taken over for asylum seekers. This means downstream businesses, which include ourselves, pubs, visitor attractions, crafts and anybody in the ancillary sectors of hospitality and tourism will be affected this summer. We are not going to change this over the next month or so; it is going to take a couple of years, but the provision of more accommodation for asylum seekers in certain areas is what is required. That accommodation needs to be for the long term, rather than the short term, because if the war continues, then it will continue and we will still have an issue around asylum applications in Ireland. That is it. I will let Mr. Lenehan address the transport issues.