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Seanad: Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...is well timed as the hospitality, transport and tourism sectors are returning. I hope it will entice workers to go back into those sectors. On a recent trip to my home town in Galway, I noticed the difficulty in finding chefs. Many of them left the industry during the pandemic and they have not returned. I hope we will now see some of them return to the industry. This brings me to the...

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...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: ...a broken record when it comes to the Defence Forces, but I have gained information this morning that adjudications provided for increases in income for specialists in the Defence Forces such as chefs and members of the ranger wing, among various other specialists, but the Department has decided that, while it will pay the increases from 1 October, it will not backdate them. A considerable...

Seanad: Housing for People with Disabilities: Motion (13 Jul 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: ...a premium. More importantly, if they ever find the money to purchase a city centre apartment, it will have to be completely renovated. One of these individuals loves to cook and is a fantastic chef, but everything must be at ground level because this man has no legs. One can imagine, therefore, that if he goes into a modern apartment block, it is totally useless to him. I have...