Results 1-17 of 17 for chefs speaker:Richard Bruton

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...

Other Questions: Apprenticeship Data (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Bruton: ...these will offer significant opportunities for women to get involved. They include areas such as accounting technician, international service specialist, international service associate and commis chef. They go right across a range of sectors, while the traditional craft apprenticeships have not attracted many women to participate. As part of the expansion of the programme, SOLAS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tourism Data (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: ...Over the lifetime of the Action Plan, 50,000 people will be registered on apprenticeship and traineeship programmes representing a doubling of current activity. Work is progressing on the development of a new Commis Chef Apprenticeship led by the Irish Hotels Federation and the Restaurants Association of Ireland working with Kerry Education and Training Board. It is planned that this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (2 Nov 2016)

Richard Bruton: ...welcomes and values the engagement of providers in supporting all aspects of curriculum delivery, in particular in the important area of healthy lifestyles for young people. The Apprentice Chef Programme is one such initiative. Much is being done already in this area by my Department, both in terms of the curriculum delivery and in resourcing. My Department issued guidance to post...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Oct 2016)

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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Provision (6 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: ...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 a work...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: ...Financial Services (IFS) Associate Professional, IFS Specialist, IFS Advanced Specialist, Industrial Electrical Engineer, Insurance Practitioner, OEM Engineer, HGV Driver, Baker and Commis Chef. The bulk of the remaining category one proposals will enrol during 2017. Category 1 Proposals Apprenticeship Title Accounting Technician Butchery and Fresh Food Retail OEM Technician ...

Estimates for Public Services 2016 (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Bruton: ...that her previous skills as she re-entered were not sufficient. She chose to study data analytics, a very different environment, and she has thrived and gone on to work in the Revenue Commissioners. The second story was that of a chef who had gone to Australia and then come back. He was unemployed and wanted to get away from work as a chef. He moved into the IT sector and now has an...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permit Applications (22 Mar 2016)

Richard Bruton: ...the manner prescribed in legislation. The application in question was refused on 30 October 2015 and the refusal decision was upheld on 12 January 2016 as the specified nature of employment - head chef - was an employment specified in Regulation 26(1) and Schedule 4 of the Employment Permits Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 432 of 2014) for which a General Employment Permit could not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Credit Guarantee Scheme and SEEDS Report: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (7 Oct 2014)

Richard Bruton: ...get into the Aldis and Lidls of this world. The company has the processes down to a T now and it is also innovative. Enterprise Ireland has supported Ribworld in innovation. It has a high class chef who has worked at the highest level who is part of the innovation team. Ribworld is ticking the right boxes - leadership, Lean, innovation and the ambition to go global and it uses...

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...

Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs: Statements (5 Mar 2014)

Richard Bruton: ...hospitality, we do not seem to have got an approach yet that provides a career path in these sectors that will attract people long-term into them. In France and some other countries this is considered a cherished profession to which chefs, waiters and everyone involved in food commit their lives. Even though it is a huge area of competitive advantage for us we do not have the right skill...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tourism Employment (1 Oct 2013)

Richard Bruton: ...developed by Fáilte Ireland working in conjunction with educational providers such as the Institutes of Technology and most recently with Colleges of Further Education. They include craft based training (Chefs / Bar and Restaurant Skills, etc) courses as well as a range of other courses designed to prepare individuals for a career in the Tourism and Hospitality industry across a wide...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permit Applications (21 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: ...trades are currently ineligible for new first time permits. New and renewal permits issued over the last few years in those sectors were in respect of highly skilled positions including chefs, non-EEA nationals already resident in the State changing employers or in respect of spouses of existing permit holders. Appendix 1 Permits issued to-date in 2013 by Economic Sector Economic...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permit Applications (20 Sep 2012)

Richard Bruton: ...€30,000 per annum is on offer based on a 39 hour week and where the position on offer is one of the occupations currently eligible for a new employment permit. Only experienced and qualified chefs are considered for the purpose of granting employment permits in respect of the restaurant sector. Furthermore, it is a requirement that applicants are not resident in the State when...

Written Answers — Labour Shortages: Labour Shortages (19 Jun 2012)

Richard Bruton: ...in the State on valid employment permits or where there is an officially recognized scarcity of workers of a particular type or qualification. All catering occupations, with the exception of Chefs, are currently ineligible for new employment permits for non-EEA nationals. The Employment Permits Section consider applications in respect of fully trained Head Chefs on a case by case basis for...