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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Model Reform: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Dr. Mary-Liz Trant: As Mr. Brownlee mentioned, there are three apprenticeships in the area, namely, commis chef, chef de partie and sous chef. There were over 203 apprentices in training when the pandemic hit last year. Due to the fact that a lot of the employer's premises were not able to remain open and training centres and institutes of technology were shutting down as well, it was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (2 May 2017)

John Halligan: ...; Monaghan ETB €15,000 HGV Driver Level 5 Cavan & Monaghan ETB €15,000 Baker Level 6 Scottish Bakers €76,250 ICT Network Engineer Level 6 FIT €12,500 ICT Software Developer Level 6 FIT €12,500 Butcher Level 5 Mayo, Sligo & Leitrim ETB €95,000 Commis Chef Level 6 Kerry ETB €40,000 ...

Tribute to Brian McNamara (19 Nov 2020)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Before proceeding to Questions on Promised Legislation, I think it is appropriate that the House would acknowledge the recent retirement of Brian McNamara, the Oireachtas chef. He has left us after 40 years of service in our restaurants. Members, staff and visitors have benefited from Brian's skills and dedication in the Oireachtas kitchen. Brian came to us from the old Hibernian Hotel....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: ...OEM Engineer Level 6 Cavan & Monaghan ETB €15,000 HGV Driver Level 5 Cavan & Monaghan ETB €15,000 Baker Level 6 Scottish Bakers €76,250 ICT Network Engineer Level 6 FIT €12,500 ICT Software Developer Level 6 FIT €12,500 Butcher Level 5 Mayo, Sligo & Leitrim ETB €95,000 Commis Chef Level 6...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Applications Data (5 Jul 2018) See 1 other result from this answer

John Halligan: Currently, the total number of chefs trained in 2017 across both the Higher Education and Further Education and Training sector is not available. An audit of hospitality courses in further and higher education was commissioned by SOLAS and the HEA on behalf of the Hospitality Skills Oversight Group, and its report was published in November 2017. The report provides a high level of analysis...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Development (31 May 2018)

John Halligan: In 2015 the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN) carried out a study on the future skills needs of the hospitality sector including skill needs for chefs and cooks. The objective was to assess demand arising within the sector in Ireland including hotels, restaurants, bars, canteens and catering over the period to 2020. The aim was to ensure that there will be the right supply...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (16 Apr 2019)

John Halligan: ...Accounting Technician 101 67 168 Insurance Practice 73 119 192 International Financial Services Associate 8 19 27 International Financial Services Specialist 7 17 24 Hospitality Total 24 120 144 Butcher 1 12 13 Chef de Partie 6 21 27 Commis Chef 17 87 104 ICT Total 14 74 88 ICT Associate Professional Network Technician 3 34 37 ICT Associate...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Tony McLoughlin: I refer to apprenticeships. Deputy O'Sullivan is right. I have been involved in the building industry. Unfortunately, there is a lack of tradesmen. This includes chefs and others across the board. I was recently speaking to a hotelier and was told that it is difficult in restaurants, hotels and various other places to get qualified chefs and that is another issue related to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Oct 2016) See 1 other result from this answer

Richard Bruton: ...25 proposals for development. Included in these proposals are a number of proposals in the hospitality sector, particularly in the culinary area. A proposal to develop a new Commis Chef Apprenticeship is at an advanced stage and is due to commence in the coming months.  A separate proposal to develop a Chef de Partie Apprenticeship has been approved for development funding by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Minister with responsibility for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (8 Oct 2020)

Paul Kehoe: ...reboot the economy after the Covid-19 pandemic. We saw the way the hospitality sector assisted the economic recovery following the financial crash but following that there was a huge shortage of chefs, jobs in areas of hotel management and so on. I believe the hotel and catering college is still operating in Shannon, County Clare, and before that we had CERT. My constituency office, and...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Skills Shortages (30 Mar 2017)

Maria Byrne: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy John Halligan. I know he is aware of the skills shortage in the hospitality industry, especially chefs and front-of-house staff. The expert group claimed that we need approximately 5,000 chefs a year in terms of training, and I understand 1,800 currently go through the system. My background is in the hospitality sector, and I know how important it is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...;naiste in recent weeks about privates in the Army being forced to retire at the age of 50. I know a man who is only 50 years of age. He has a family of three and is being forced to retire. He is a chef. The Army has only paid him pennies. He wants to work on. I have asked the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste what they are going to do. In two weeks' time, this man will be forced to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ----and as the Tánaiste knows there is a big shortage of chefs and numbers of soldiers are at an all-time low. This chef has over 24 years experience. He has a family with three children who will go to college and still has a 15-year mortgage to go. He would love to stay in his job but at the moment he feels as though he is being forced out and unsurprisingly is looking for a job. I...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (28 Sep 2022)

Simon Harris: ...55 Brick and Stonelaying 43 Butcher 23 Carpentry and Joinery 398 CGI technical Artist 0 Chef de Partie 2 Commis Chef 50 Construction Plant Fitting 44 Cybersecurity 26 Cybersecurity...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)

Martin Conway: ...within the industry be established, similar to the CERT system, whereby they could be trained to fill the thousands of current vacancies. There will be more vacancies as the industry grows for chefs, sous-chefs and commis chefs and in other positions within the hospitality sector. Thousands of jobs can and will be created, but there is already a skills shortage which will become even...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (26 May 2022)

Martin Browne: ...There are positions whereby we could increase the staffing level of the Defence Forces. Do other members wish to comment? No. The next petition is No. 25/22, from Mr. Patrick Lynn, who calls for chefs to be added to the critical skills list now to save Irish hospitality. The petitioner considers that chefs should be added to the critical skills occupations list to support the Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Dec 2015)

John McGuinness: ...of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny and the reply issued by the Health Service Executive dated 19 October 2015, if he is aware that the person was given the contract for employment as chef grade 1 in the knowledge of the executive that the person was short by two months to qualify under the regulations; how can the executive now break the contract with the person given that...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Data (17 Dec 2019) See 1 other result from this answer

Heather Humphreys: In March 2018, following a comprehensive review of the occupation lists for employment permit purposes, the employment permits system was amended to broaden the availability of permits to all chef grades, with the exception of commis chef, subject to a quota of 610. The Employment Permits Section of my Department informs me that this quota has now exhausted. The application of a quota is to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2005)

Maurice Hayes: ...in the newspapers last week, that the effect of a European directive was that retail butchers could only sell direct to the so-called "end users". As such, they were precluded from selling to chefs and restaurants. If that is true, it is not the way good chefs do their business and it could have a deleterious effect on some very good small specialised butcher shops, which might be...