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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (24 Feb 2022)

Catherine Martin: ...work of the Group resulted in up to 350 work permits being granted for managerial positions in certain tourism and hospitality businesses. Last year, my Department also successfully advocated for the prioritisation of chef permit applications. I have also recently worked with Minister Donohoe on the extension of the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme. I will continue to engage with and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

...all of them that considered housing to be an issue that was coming down the line. To the extent that I remember, Bertie Ahern who was not yet in office but was heading in that direction, sent his chef de cabinetto give them some kind of briefing on the reason we were maintaining this position. Anyway, we did not do what we needed to do at that time and as a result, we are where we are...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (1 Mar 2022)

Catherine Martin: ...recently the work of the Group resulted in up to 350 work permits being granted for managerial positions in certain tourism and hospitality businesses. Last year, my Department also successfully advocated for the prioritisation of chef permit applications. I have also recently worked with Minister Donohoe on the extension of the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme. I will continue to engage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025 (Resumed): Bord Bia (21 May 2019)

...strategy of trying to westernise the diet of people in China. Rather, we are trying to ensure that Irish beef has a position within Chinese recipes and in how they design their food. Four master chefs will visit Ireland next week. They have custom designed different regional cuisines, for example, Cantonese, to show how they would cook the Irish beef cuts available in their market and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pigmeat Sector (17 Dec 2013)

Simon Coveney: The pigmeat sector is the third largest sector in Irish agriculture in terms of output and exports and a significant contributor to employment and the economy generally. Approximately 50% of Irish pigmeat is consumed on the home market while exports this year are focussed on the UK, China, Russia, Japan the US and continental Europe. The growing list of third country markets in which Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (23 Nov 2017)

John Halligan: ...Mechanics Level 6 4 Years 30 Construction Plant Fitting Level 6 4 Years 31 Heavy Vehicle Mechanics Level 6 4 Years 32 Motor Mechanics Level 6 4 Years 33 Vehicle Body Repairs Level 6 4 Years HOSPITALITY 34 Commis Chef Level 6 2 years IT 35 ICT Associate Professional Network Engineer (* 1stt intake Q1 2018) Level 6 2 years 36 ICT Associate Professional Software Developer (*...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Joint Labour Committees) Bill 2019: Second Stage (27 Nov 2019)

Fintan Warfield: ...questionable practices concerning tipping in their workplaces. Mr. Conor Stitt, with whom I work upstairs, attended the audiovisual room briefing held by Senator Nash. One SIPTU member, Mr. Martin Murga, a chef, said it best: The pursuit of profit pits worker against worker, good employer against bad employer. Such a process leads to ever declining pay and conditions in a sector....

Seanad: Tourism Industry: Statements (25 Mar 2009)

Donie Cassidy: ...in areas without knowing where the jobs are going to be in one, two or three years. However, if incentives could be given to the hotel, guest house and tourism sectors to enable them to train the chefs, waitresses and receptionists of tomorrow, they would gladly hire such people and train them now. If the incentives exist the people are there to respond. They responded when the tourism...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Market (15 Sep 2022)

Damien English: ...any long-term labour market scarring in the sector. The increase in employment was also supported by the approval of employment permits for the sector. Since the start of May, 1,345 applications for Chefs have been processed by my Department. 30 permits for hotel and accommodation managers have also been issued, out of an available 350 in the quota announced in October 2021, with a...

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (22 Apr 2009)

Micheál Martin: ...in mid-February, as well as the recent efforts of both men to bring about the declaration of the 48-hour ceasefire by the Sri Lankan Government on 12 April. I note also that the Secretary General's Chef de Cabinet, Vijay Nambiar, visited Colombo last week. Together with our partners in the EU, Ireland has welcomed the temporary ceasefire but has called for it to be extended in order to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

Rose Conway Walsh: ...that will have very serious implications. That is the strike of the healthcare assistants, the homecare assistants, the maternity care assistants, the staff, the cleaners, the laboratory aides, the chefs and the surgical instrument cleaners who operate our hospitals and health facilities.These are the people who hold our health service together. Some 6,200 workers are affected in 38...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: ...and briefings on apprenticeship optionsFacts: Apprenticeship is packed with diverse role models and women’s success stories, and growing numbers of women apprentices and graduates of the apprenticeship route Faces: They are employers, chefs, craftspeople, cyber security specialists, international financial analysts, creators, team members, leadersFutures: More and more girls in...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (12 May 2022)

Simon Coveney: ...competitions for Bridge Watch-keeping, Marine Engineering and Electrical Engineering roles; - Direct Entry ‘Other Ranks’ competitions for Engine Room Artificers, Hull Artificers, Electrical Artificers, Radio/Radar Technicians and Chefs. - An Air Corps Aircraft Apprentice Technician competition; - A Cadetship competition for all branches will commence shortly; - An extension...

Seanad: National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2015 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (10 Nov 2016) See 1 other result from this debate

Ned O'Sullivan: ...from Asia stay for longer periods, spend more and travel more. We welcome that and will have to work on it. I have referred to skills shortages in a number of debates here before. We have a difficulty training chefs especially. I will ask the Minister of State another time to take a serious look at how we will train our chefs and kitchen staff generally and how we will reinvigorate CERT...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (3 May 2018)

Paul Coghlan: ...the Commencement of the House today, he proposes to raise the following matter:The need for the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the measures being planned to address the shortage of chefs in the hospitality industry. I have also received notice from Senator Jennifer Murnane O’Connor of the following matter:The need for the Minister for Education and Skills to outline...

Irish Apprenticeship System: Statements (26 May 2022)

Carol Nolan: ...we must remove the snobbery, elitism and the other ridiculous biases that have an impact on the take-up of trades, upon which we all rely and upon which our economy relies. One specific area that has been receiving significant coverage this week is the lack of chefs available and the impact this is having on the restaurant and tourism sector in general. I received a reply to a...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2020)

Simon Coveney: ...have limitations on what we can do overseas because we have shortages of certain specialties. Ships are not going to sea because of the limitations enforced on us due to the fact we are missing a chef, medic, specialised engineer or whatever. There is an opportunity for specialist skill sets, in particular, in the Reserve to be able to complement and work with the Permanent Defence Force...

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (23 Apr 2009)

Micheál Martin: ...undertaken by organisations such as the ICRC, UNHCR, and Médecins Sans Frontières, whose activities Irish Aid have been supporting. I welcome the recent visit by the UN Secretary's General's Chef de Cabinet, Vijay Nambiar to Colombo last week, and hope that the UN will be able to engage more pro-actively with the Sri Lankan government while this appalling humanitarian tragedy continues...

Seanad: Merits of Farmers' Markets: Statements (6 Dec 2007) See 1 other result from this debate

Phil Prendergast: ...tell the difference between organic and non-organic carrots. Free range organic chicken, which I buy occasionally, is expensive but worth the cost because one knows what one is getting. A guest chef on the television programme "The Restaurant" went out of her way to select free range organic chicken for her chosen chicken dish but Tom Doorley, the well-known food critic, suggested she...

Seanad: Education (Welfare) (Amendment) Bill: Second Stage (11 Nov 2015) See 1 other result from this debate

Marie Moloney: .... It is a fact that not all students are academically-minded. I know a young teenager who is not academically-minded but could cook for Ireland. I have been encouraging him to train as a chef. The Minister and I recently visited the Kerry College of Further Education in Tralee which runs a chef training course which is accessible to students outside of the CAO process. There is...