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Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Adding Chefs to the Critical Skills List Now to Save Irish Hospitality: Discussion (7 Jul 2022)

Eugene Murphy: ...Roscommon there are people, particularly in family hotels, pleading with me every second day of the week. They are having to close what are, in most cases, very good premises because they cannot get chefs in particular. In one case, the hotel was asked to dedicate a few rooms to the unfortunate Ukrainian people, they managed to get a wonderful young chef from Ukraine which was a very big...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Adding Chefs to the Critical Skills List Now to Save Irish Hospitality: Discussion (7 Jul 2022)

Eugene Murphy: ...delighted and that family hotel is thrilled it could place that young lady in a job. Despite the language barrier, things are working out pretty well. It shows we can do things. We need to get chefs onto that critical list. We are only seeing the nub of the problem now and if we do not deal with it, we will see serious closures in the hotel sector. As I said, some fine family hotels...

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

Eugene Murphy: ...in my area. They work so hard and they have found it very difficult to recruit all staff ranging from floor staff, waiters and waitresses and they have found it extremely difficult to recruit chefs. The owners of the hotel were asked to take some Ukrainians and give a few rooms over to them. Thankfully, one of the Ukrainians is a chef. She is a wonderful young lady and she now works in...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Working Conditions and Skills Shortages in Tourism and Hospitality Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Eugene Murphy: ...from hotels and restaurants. I was approached by one lady who runs a very successful family hotel which, unfortunately, has been closing one or two days a week because of staff issues. Unfortunately, one chef was not able to turn up to help the other chefs recently and she spent 14.5 hours without a break cooking, helping the chefs. It was an enormous strain, she told me. She could not...

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...

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...

National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jun 2019)

Eugene Murphy: ...is doing, which is tabling an amendment to the Bill. In most people's minds, the legislation is the right thing to do. In the name of God, if somebody leaves a tip for an employee in a restaurant for the chefs or those serving the customers he or she expects that tip to go to the staff. That is the bottom line.