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Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (23 Oct 2007)

Micheál Martin: ...Staff: All drivers (excluding HGV) In the category Childcare workers: Nursery / Crèche workers, childminders / nanny. In the category Hotel Tourism and Catering: All staff except qualified chefs. In the category Craft Workers and Apprentice / Trainee Craft Worker: Bookbinders, Bricklayers, Cabinet Maker, Carpenter / Joiner, Carton Maker, Fitter — Construction Plant, Electrician,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tourism Industry (22 Jun 2021)

Imelda Munster: ...that against the cost of living, rent, utilities, childcare etc., one can understand why the sector is struggling with staff retention. It is not a new problem. For years, we have had a shortage of chefs, cooks etc. We should use this as an opportunity to address the long-running issues in the sector when it comes to workers' pay and conditions. Does the Minister have plans for...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Nov 2010)

Mary Harney: ...will be made available in 2010 to fund the up-front costs of both schemes. The VER and VR schemes are open to management and administrative staff and general support staff (e.g. porters, drivers, chefs) but priority will be given to management and administrative grades. The exact grades covered by the two schemes are set out in detail in the relevant Circular (Circular 7/2010). The...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2010)

.... We must give them the opportunity to stay in productive environments where their skills will not be lost. It is all very well to put in place training or retraining programmes but if one is a chef, does one want to be retrained as a architect? Some of the offers made to people are ridiculous and do not make sense. There must be co-ordination between the retraining programmes and the...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Michael Collins: ...they would have no problem opening their bars, but they will not be allowed to do so because their kitchens are not up to the full standard required for a kitchen to be open and they do not have a chef in the bar. Apparently, it is necessary to have both. These businesses are caught in a catch-22 situation. It is terribly unfair because they are quite happy to open but they are not able...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (15 Nov 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: ...the guidelines relating to Ministerial appointees. Post Salary or scale Public service post prior to appointment Special Adviser - Office of the Tánaiste €168,000 Houses of the Oireachtas - Chef de Cabinet Special Adviser - Office of the Tánaiste €155,000 Not applicable Special Adviser - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade €80,051 Houses of the Oireachtas –...

Other Questions: Apprenticeship Data (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: ...these will offer significant opportunities for women to get involved. They include areas such as accounting technician, international service specialist, international service associate and commis chef. They go right across a range of sectors, while the traditional craft apprenticeships have not attracted many women to participate. As part of the expansion of the programme, SOLAS...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: ...level 5. Today, Micheál Lehane said it is likely to be 7 December when gastropubs and restaurants will open. The Irish Independent has run a story that pubs can serve indoors but only if they have a chef on site. The Tánaiste has gone on a solo run saying gyms, barbers and shops will open first and gastropubs and restaurants will potentially open after that. This is creating...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

John McGuinness: ...to me in the south east to ask if someone can change the regime so that if people are found, they can be fast-tracked in. I was struck by the preparations for the Irish Open. The applications for chefs are waiting to be cleared in the Department. I would have thought that for major events such as that or indeed major bus companies or hauliers that there would be some method of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Visa Applications (16 May 2023)

Neale Richmond: ...the concerns raised by various sectors with regard to the critical short supply of skills in a number of roles crucial to the economy. Following extensive reviews, since 1st January 2020, all grades of Chef with appropriate experience were removed from the Ineligible Occupations List and became eligible for the General Employment Permit. Approximately 3,200 employment permits have been...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

...level must be thorough. Quality and Qualifications Ireland, QQI, must underpin everything, and rightly so. If somebody claims they have been through an apprenticeship as an electrician or commis chef, we want them to be a fully qualified electrician or commis chef. The process is more complex than anybody on the council envisaged. A lot of hard work is going on in a variety of areas....

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Colm Burke: ...to changing needs? There is also a skills shortage in the restaurant trade. Recently, I spoke to someone who was opening a new restaurant in Cork. That person was finding it difficult to get chefs. It is a common complaint across the country. We must consider this matter and determine whether our educational institutions can adapt. What action is the Minister taking in this regard?...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Procurement: Defence Forces Procurement (16 Nov 2006)

Willie O'Dea: ...provided to members of the Defence Forces. Every effort is made to accommodate Defence Forces personnel who have particular dietary requirements. The Defence Forces School of Catering trains its chefs to facilitate such requirements, whether for personal, health, religious or other reasons.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2017)

...sector offered decent employment to people. Somebody could do the group cert or the leaving cert and then go to CERT, which was a State body, to be trained in a craft skill as an apprentice chef, commis chef, chef de partie or silver service waiter or waitress. This would enable him or her to get a job in a hotel and stay in that hotel to earn a living, raise a family and own a home....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (15 Sep 2022)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We have spoken before about the operation of the work permit scheme. Streamlining is needed across the board, in respect of everything from healthcare workers to chefs. Beyond that, the Minister of State spoke about the task force. We all know the issues, whether we are talking about healthcare workers in nursing homes or home carers, which is a particular issue. The Minister of State...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: As the most senior civil servant advising the Taoiseach and the Cabinet, I assume Mr. Fraser has meetings on a weekly or more frequent basis with Government advisers, the chef de cabinet and perhaps Ministers, and I am sure he is well used to a situation where eleventh-hour issues come before the Cabinet, for example, a couple of hours before a Cabinet meeting something urgent arises that he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (7 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: ...40 Healthcare Assistant Level 6 2 HOSPITALITY & FOOD 41 Bar Manager Level 7 3 42 Commis Chef Level 6 2 43 Chef de Partie Level 7 4 44 Sous Chef Level 8 2 ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of the Withdrawal of Covid-19 Measures on Business: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Ollie Crowe: I have three points to which I would like Mr. Hughes to respond. The first of them relates to the skilled staff shortages - for example, the shortage of chefs - that have been spoken about in the hospitality sector. The two issues in this respect are the red tape for the employees themselves and the costs to the employer. What is the Department doing to process this more quickly? What...

Written Answers — Beef Industry: Beef Industry (4 May 2005)

Mary Coughlan: ...and Bord Bia will shortly promote the scheme to encourage the widest possible farmer uptake. A strong interest in Irish beef has been generated by building its reputation through the media, by chefs endorsements and the creation of demand from premium chefs-restaurants in each of these markets. The main goal of our marketing strategy is to increase retail market penetration and to invest...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...Department and the Minister to consider it further in the context of where we are at. We talked about skills and when these businesses are not operating as they were, the skills are being lost. Chefs and people are being lost out of those businesses. When you look around the country, and I have looked at this a good bit recently myself, there is very little in the line of third-level...