Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC

2:00 pm

Photo of Joan BurtonJoan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The one most commonly referenced is the hospitality and restaurant trade. Is there any light at the end of that tunnel? All over the country, one cannot get chefs. Many young people, no doubt spurred on by all the fantastic television shows of contestants cooking and becoming celebrities, are interested in a way that they were not interested ten or 20 years ago. It is a fashionable business to be involved in. Does IBEC identify a particular road block that is preventing action? One is talking about a country where we are developing a good tourism product.