Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Tourism Industry: Discussion

10:35 am

Mr. Stephen McNally:

To add to that Chairman, the Irish Hotels Federation runs a quality employer programme. Our members sign up to codes of practice in terms of dealing with people. That has made our industry a lot more attractive in that employees are given adequate hours, a regular pattern of work and proper contracts. That has been hugely beneficial. We believe that staff retention will be much higher in the future as a result of that.