Results 1-11 of 11 for chefs speaker:Joan Burton

Loss of Biodiversity and Extinction of Species: Statements (29 May 2019)

Joan Burton: ...to give them a clear-fell site. That is a cultural change. Many of my family are builders or are tradesmen in the building industry. I know everybody wants a clean site to work on, just as a chef might need a clean table to prepare a meal. I urge the Minister and the Government to get the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, to amend the development and planning laws so that we respect the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (16 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received a proposal from KWETB for hospitality training in County Kildare for chefs, waiters and so on; if he will approve the setting up of such a training centre in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1517/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the lack of apprenticeships suitable for a number of employment vacancies such as chefs and in the hospitality sector generally in order to upskill young persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24957/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Skills and Apprenticeship Schemes: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Joan Burton: ...fault of anybody here but the committee could do something useful by asking the Government to focus on the number. If I heard the hotels federation correctly, Mr. Fenn stated that we need 13,000 chefs by 2020 and currently we are training 1,300. This means that, inevitably, we will repeat some of the worst and most stressful elements of the boom period. Inevitably, if we have that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (5 Apr 2017)

Joan Burton: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the lack of apprenticeships suitable for a number of employment vacancies such as chefs and in the hospitality sector generally, to upskill young unemployed workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16874/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the lack of apprenticeships suitable for a number of employment vacancies such as chefs and in the hospitality sector generally to upskill young unemployed persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10704/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: The one most commonly referenced is the hospitality and restaurant trade. Is there any light at the end of that tunnel? All over the country, one cannot get chefs. Many young people, no doubt spurred on by all the fantastic television shows of contestants cooking and becoming celebrities, are interested in a way that they were not interested ten or 20 years ago. It is a fashionable...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the lack of apprenticeships suitable for a number of employment vacancies, such as chefs and in the hospitality sector generally, to upskill young unemployed persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3016/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (15 Nov 2016)

Joan Burton: 257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the lack of apprenticeships suitable for a number of employment vacancies, such as chefs and in the hospitality sector generally, to upskill young unemployed workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34794/16]

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

Joan Burton: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will acknowledge the lack of apprenticeships suitable for a number of employment vacancies such as chefs and in the hospitality sector generally to upskill young unemployed workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29016/16]

Written Answers — Job Initiative: Job Initiative (18 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: ...which have commenced since the 1 July 2011, 2% of the internships are occupations associated with catering sector and hotels. In addition to catering assistants; accommodation assistants; chefs and event co-ordinators roles; these figures also relate to support and administrative functions within the catering sector and hotel sector, including for example clerical, marketing, quality...