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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: ...in providing for the skill needs of the sector have included: - Approximately 220 free hospitality-related higher education places under the 2016 Springboard+ programme. - A proposal to develop a new Commis Chef Apprenticeship is at an advanced stage and is due to commence in the coming months, with training courses taking place in Education and Training Boards (ETBs) along with...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2020)

Ollie Crowe: ...is not acceptable. Currently, as we are all aware, the tourists are not there, so the restaurants and bars cannot open. At this time of year, they are under pressure in the context of staff, namely, chefs and senior staff members. For those reasons, the CRSS needs to be revisited. I have contacted the Government, particularly the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, and I am...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)

Mary Upton: ...will be reversed. Regarding graduate placements and training, what are the retraining opportunities for a young architect of 23 years of age with a good degree? Is the person to be retrained as a chef or a carpenter? There seems to be a lack of fit between the people in need of retraining and the training opportunities available. It does not add up, nor does it make sense. There is no...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Funding (18 Oct 2016)

John Halligan: ...collaboratively with other ETBs.  Apprenticeships are designed to be delivered on a national basis, with only a single apprenticeship in place for each occupation.  The development of the curriculum for the new Commis Chef Apprenticeship Programme is being led by Cork Education and Training Board with industry partners. The occupational profile for this apprenticeship...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Data (11 Dec 2018)

Katherine Zappone: ...Social Care Worker 56 63 119 Night Supervisory Officer 14 37 51 General Operative/Household 20 9 29 Unit Manager 12 6 18 Administrator 18 0 18 Senior Management 4 5 9 Chef 2 3 5 Maintenance 0 4 4 Clinical Nurse Manager 2 1 3 IT Projects Leader 0 1 1 Researcher 1 0 1 Supplies Officer 1 0 1 Total 130 129 259 OMBUDSMAN FOR...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2020)

Eugene Murphy: ...in tears. She tested positive herself. She has no symptoms but obviously cannot go to the nursing home. The result is that the nursing home has been left with one nurse, one care assistant, one chef and one food server. The HSE's intervention was sought. It promised to help and did send one nurse but, because so many staff have been affected, that nurse and one care assistant were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Young Social Innovators: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

...of post-natal depression, especially in isolation during Covid-19, and then seeing an image of somebody like that online. Even though one knows it is fake and that the person has a personal chef and has taken 27,000 shots in order to get that one shot, the rational part of one's brain is put to the side and that other part just comes to the fore. One partly believes it and one still...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permit Applications (27 May 2014)

Richard Bruton: ...under the category of Hotel Tourism and Catering in my Department’s list of ineligible occupations for work permits all occupations in that area of employment are ineligible with the exception of chefs. This policy is outlined on my Department’s website. The applicant in this case submitted a request that this decision be reviewed in accordance with Section 13 of the...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael Collins: .... I do not want to single out anyone but there is one specific lady who is outstanding in her job and bends over backwards in every way, shape and form to help us get permits for doctors, chefs and many others. That lady is more than willing to help with any work permit that we have to make representations on. Sometimes we forget to thank people who work in the Departments. We maybe...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...through the proper protocols or approvals. We know from the report that the Minister’s Secretary General’s account of events is at complete variance with the account of events from the then Taoiseach’s chef de cabinetas well as that of the Secretary General to the Government. Deirdre Gillane’s comments were very trenchant. She did not hold back at all and she...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (15 Dec 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Catherine Connolly: ...it closed, there was an announcement from Government that we did not have enough public nursing homes, and we know the result of that when we look at Covid. Today it is a day centre. The capacity is much bigger than the numbers currently attending, given Covid. I am focusing on the kitchen, the chef and the team who are there for more than 20 years supplying healthy food, not only to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role and Potential of Community and Vocational Education: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

...employers. Some days ago I attended the conference of the Irish Hotels Federation, at which Mr. O'Toole spoke. We had a number of meetings with the federation with a view to meeting their needs for commis chefs, breakfast chefs, waiters and front of house staff. One will have read in the newspapers today that there is a shortage of qualified front of house staff. This is where ETBs can...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (10 May 2017)

John Halligan: ...start dates for other programmes. The first 20 on the attached list were in the original category one list arising from the 2015 call. Of the original category one list, two proposals in Commis Chef were merged and two welding proposals were also combined giving final category one total of 23. Three of these proposals in the areas of Travel & Tourism, Warehouse &...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Industry (18 Oct 2012)

Leo Varadkar: ... is that Fáilte Ireland has sought and achieved the provision of improved training and career prospects for new entrants.  New apprenticeship style models have been developed and put in place across the country together with an accelerated training programme for chefs and restaurant service.  As part of its strategy, Fáilte Ireland has championed the...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (2 May 2018)

Paul Coghlan: ...to County Mayo. I have also received notice from Senator Martin Conway of 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. Of the matters raised by the Senators that are suitable for discussion, I have selected the matters raised by Senators Burke, Ó...

Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2008) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael Kennedy: ...particularly the plan to accelerate the applications of current work-permit holders and migrants with much sought-after skills for long-term residency. I instance nurses, skilled labourers and chefs. This is a healthy progression from the current system and I welcome the consideration being given to the theory that there are and will be jobs that Irish citizens, for whatever reason, are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (9 Dec 2021)

Damien English: ...people to work. The Deputy mentioned the hospitality sector. On one hand, there are thousands of jobs available in that sector, and we have given permits and prioritised certain areas, such as chefs and so forth. On the other hand, if one analyses the live register and the people on the PUP, there are thousands with a background in hospitality. There is a mismatch there and we are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (14 Dec 2021)

Michael McGrath: ...to regulate the provision of “secretarial facilities” to Members and “qualifying parties”. Secretarial Assistants, Administrative Assistants, Parliamentary Assistants, Administrators and Chefs de Cabinet are employed by Members and by qualifying parties but are paid by the Commission. The Commission also regulates the number of staff employed under the Scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ...be able to avail of the many employment opportunities arising in this expanding sector. The Taskforce is also progressing the roll out of apprenticeships in prison, having identified the Commis-Chef Apprenticeship and the pilot new Painting and Decorating Apprenticeship as significant opportunities. The first FET Information Day took place in Mountjoy Prison, advising prisoners on...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Community Employment Schemes Review (9 May 2018)

Colm Burke: ...We are concerned because these are community associations that are providing a very valuable service to the local community in all sorts of ways. The person who had reached 66 years of age was a chef and was providing meals for elderly people in the community a number of days a week but it is not possible to get someone to replace him. Many community associations are not able to get...