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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Food Safety and Health Eating Initiatives: Safefood (23 Apr 2015)

...socioeconomic groups. The two things we have done recently were in television, because the lower socioeconomic groups watch television to a huge extent. The audience figures are huge. Celebrity chefs have been tried and tested, but we have found in the research that people are watching them for entertainment. In one programme we did, called "Take on the Takeaway", we challenged people...

Seanad: Public Transport: Motion. (15 Oct 2003)

Fergal Browne: .... It is vital, as proposed in the Labour Party motion, to have one transportation policy unit in charge of Dublin. There are far too many transportation areas in Dublin. It is a case of too many chefs in the kitchen resulting in too little food being cooked.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Provision (24 Sep 2014)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...and hospitality sectors and review training provision in that context in conjunction with the ETBs. SOLAS have noted that in 2014 Department of Social Protection registered Job Seekers listed as chefs number 1633 (as of August 2014) and the advertised number of vacancies for chefs, January to August, total some 2307. Fáilte Ireland on behalf of the Irish Hotel Federation and the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Data (2 Oct 2018)

Heather Humphreys: ...Categories of Employment List (ICEL) was undertaken in the last quarter of 2017; as a result, in March 2018 a number of animation occupations were added to the HSEOL and certain grades of chef were removed from the ICEL, subject to a quota. The highly skilled and ineligible occupation lists for the purposes of employment permits are reviewed every six months ensuring that the system is...

Company Closures. (6 Feb 2007)

Mary Coughlan: ...consideration that judicial proceedings are in progress on this issue. I am aware of the situation. I have met the workers twice and know the unions have met Klaus-Dieter Borchardt the Deputy Chef de Cabinet of Ms Fischer Boel who has outlined a response similar to that provided to Mary Lou McDonald, MEP. The Commission's position explains the relevant provisions of the EU regulations...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Data (9 Jun 2020)

Paul Kehoe: ..., I launched the scheme to re-enlist former PDF enlisted personnel who have the skills and expertise required to fill identified vacancies that currently exist. This includes technicians, fitters, chefs, communications and IT specialists and naval staff. The scheme will allow for initial re-enlistment for a minimum of six months and up to 3 years. The duration of the re-enlistment offered...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (5 May 2022)

Damien English: ...sector to assist with applications for General Employment Permits. This checklist is available on the Department’s website at enterprise.gov.ie/en/Publications/Publication-files/Checklis t-for-Chefs.pdf.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (8 Sep 2020)

Simon Coveney: ...to re-enlist former Permanent Defence Force enlisted personnel who have the skills and expertise required to fill identified vacancies that currently exist. This includes technicians, fitters, chefs, communications and IT specialists and naval staff. The scheme is intended to support the Defence Forces in responding to capability demands in the short to medium term and will allow for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Exports (9 Mar 2017)

Michael Creed: ...is achieved by demonstrating the quality of our produce and the Bord Bia Quality Assurance Scheme and Origin Green initiative are critically important in this endeavour.  Irish beef is purchased by the largest three UK retailers, arguably the most valuable market of scale. Beef exports to Germany have almost trebled in value over the past five years. ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Feb 2022)

Niamh Smyth: ...to mention Cavan Institute, which the Minister, Deputy Harris, visited. Not only does it provide academic subjects, it also endeavours to provide apprenticeships in hairdressing and for commis chefs. It is a victim of its own success and space is now required to help it to continue to provide those programmes. Ireland has traditionally lagged behind our neighbours in the scope and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2022)

Paddy Burke: ...pressure. The hospitality sector is under pressure in terms of staff and in many cases it is looking for permits. That is something that crosses over to other Departments. There is a shortage of chefs and a whole range of staff in catering. Then there is the matter of sterling which is getting stronger. That could help our tourism sector. We should be encouraging people from the UK...

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...hospitality sector and a range of other sectors had poor cash flows. They laid off their workers, being aware that they could avail of the PUP. One business person in Donegal told me a story. A chef working for that business had paid taxes and social insurance for decades but was left with no support from this State, yet the young person who had been washing dishes for just weeks got...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Jul 2021)

Simon Harris: ...5 2 Carpentry and Joinery pre-2016 Construction 6 4 CGI technical Artist 2018 ICT 7 2 Chef de Partie 2018 Hospitality 7 4 Commis Chef 2017 Hospitality 6 2 Construction Plant Fitting ...

Seanad: Tourism: Statements (5 Apr 2022)

Eugene Murphy: ...to see fine establishments closing one or two days a week. That is what is happening. I was just thinking about this and I talked to a hotelier in Roscommon the other evening. There are a lot of semi-retired but not elderly people who worked as chefs and cooks in many establishments, sometimes in the Army or other institutions. We should look to a scheme encouraging them back in the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permit Applications (20 Sep 2012)

Richard Bruton: ...€30,000 per annum is on offer based on a 39 hour week and where the position on offer is one of the occupations currently eligible for a new employment permit. Only experienced and qualified chefs are considered for the purpose of granting employment permits in respect of the restaurant sector. Furthermore, it is a requirement that applicants are not resident in the State when...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (29 Sep 2022)

Catherine Martin: ...and across Government Departments to ensure a co-ordinated approach to addressing the labour and skills shortages in the sector across all roles.   Earlier in the year delays in the processing of work permits for chefs was a particular challenge for the sector. My Department and Fáilte Ireland worked closely with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)

Ray Butler: .... Basically, they plan to attack to create more division and hatred in our society. That murderer in England - I could not call him a gentleman - stayed under the radar in this country as a pastry chef. Could the Leader invite the new Minister to the House to discuss the issue of these people being on our shores? If they need to be put out of the country, let us put them out. They...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Industry (24 Apr 2018)

Brendan Griffin: ...the economy are being addressed through a combination of measures involving various key stakeholders. I welcome the recent decision by the Minster for Business, Enterprise and Innovation to remove certain chef grades from the ineligible lists of Work Permits from non EEA. A Hospitality Skills Oversight Group, involving all relevant stakeholders, oversees skills development and...

Topical Issues: Maternity Services (26 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: ...safety is the responsibility of the chief executive of any hospital or hospital group. Let us suppose I put it to a restaurant manager that we are going to save some money and I am going to take away a chef and a commis chef, but I want the manager to ensure that none of the customers is waiting on their food and that they all go away happy. In fairness to the manager, it would be...

Food Labelling. (20 May 2009)

Trevor Sargent: ...activities for the Just Ask campaign, which was launched in March, include targeted national and local radio and press advertising, on-line and print media activities and promotions targeting chefs directly. Research to date carried out by Bord Bia shows that over a third of the target group interviewed are aware of the Just Ask campaign and say it would encourage them to ask where their...