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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...Department and the Minister to consider it further in the context of where we are at. We talked about skills and when these businesses are not operating as they were, the skills are being lost. Chefs and people are being lost out of those businesses. When you look around the country, and I have looked at this a good bit recently myself, there is very little in the line of third-level...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Working Conditions and Skills Shortages in Ireland’s Tourism and Hospitality Sector: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...to service the country. It would concentrate and specialise in particular on the catering end of things. At the minute, Tralee and Cork are the only places in the country where a person can do certain types of chef training courses. The reality is somebody from Donegal will not travel to Cork. The people who are now running the most successful restaurants in the country went to the...

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

Micheál Carrigy: I have a couple of points. In regard to skills shortages, would there be merit in a hospitality centre of excellence being developed somewhere in the country for chefs and so forth? We have seen the shortages. We would have one particular area and develop it.