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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: ...components are as follows:Facts:Apprenticeship is packed with diverse role models and women’s success stories, and growing numbers of women apprentices and graduates of the apprenticeship route Faces:They are employers, chefs, craftspeople, cyber security specialists, international financial analysts, creators, team members, leaders!Futures:More and more girls in school can take...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: ...and briefings on apprenticeship optionsFacts: Apprenticeship is packed with diverse role models and women’s success stories, and growing numbers of women apprentices and graduates of the apprenticeship route Faces: They are employers, chefs, craftspeople, cyber security specialists, international financial analysts, creators, team members, leadersFutures: More and more girls in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: ...and briefings on apprenticeship optionsFacts: Apprenticeship is packed with diverse role models and women’s success stories, and growing numbers of women apprentices and graduates of the apprenticeship route Faces: They are employers, chefs, craftspeople, cyber security specialists, international financial analysts, creators, team members, leadersFutures: More and more girls in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Current Issues Facing Members of the Defence Forces: Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (3 Oct 2023)

..., one aircraft or one platform, the operation does not go ahead. This has to do with largely human factors, involving staff from pilots, ship captains and engineers to engine-room artificers and even chefs and medics. A Naval Service ship generally will not go to sea if one person is ill or otherwise indisposed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implementation of the Recommendations of the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Discussion (26 Sep 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Réada Cronin: ...of national security if we do not have that in our Defence Forces. The report also mentions work-life balance. There is a huge gap here as well between the aspiration and the application. It is reported that some military chefs and members of the officers’ mess are being asked to work for 15 non-military occasions, such as meetings and functions, and they will have to work on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (26 Sep 2023)

Simon Harris: ...are as follows:Facts: Apprenticeship is packed with diverse role models and women's success stories, and growing numbers of women apprentices and graduates of the apprenticeship route Faces: They are employers, chefs, craftspeople, cyber security specialists, international financial analysts, creators, team members, leaders!Futures: More and more girls in school can take inspiration from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

...comes from HSI to ourselves. The answer to that is "No". HSI has some small sponsorship arrangements in place for the high performance teams which it administers and sends abroad through their chefs d'équipe. Their funding for that element of it, as Mr. Potterton alluded to, comes directly from Sport Ireland. It is the core fund and the high performance fund, which the affiliates...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

...of saleable meat - the amount of muscle that is available - is probably equivalent to what it is in the lighter carcase. The amount of waste, from a consumer point of view or, indeed, from the chef preparation, is why there is a discount on it.

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Mr. Noel Kelly: For instance, we have a young chef on our books. We got the chef a book deal so he became an author. Then we got the chef a TV show. The issue is that there is a huge lack of funding for programme making so we try to get sponsors to help to make the shows.

Youth Justice Strategy: Statements (21 Jun 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...into addiction through trauma. I saw two individuals there. One young guy is hoping to do aerospace engineering, having been up before the courts a number of times. Another chap is hopefully going on to become a chef. It shows the value of an integrated, co-ordinated approach, but one needs to have the experts there and time and money are needed. We have to find a way to deliver...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Visa Applications (16 May 2023)

Neale Richmond: ...the concerns raised by various sectors with regard to the critical short supply of skills in a number of roles crucial to the economy. Following extensive reviews, since 1st January 2020, all grades of Chef with appropriate experience were removed from the Ineligible Occupations List and became eligible for the General Employment Permit. Approximately 3,200 employment permits have been...

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...Thurles where students are trained in everything from bed repairs for hotel maintenance and the cleaning of rooms in hotels to operating massive bulldozers in construction and everything in between, from chef training to you name it. We need more of that because we have a huge deficit in apprentices. Deputy Nolan referred to the projected estimates. Where will we get these people?...

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Inclusion of Apprentices) Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 May 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Annie Hoey: ...on my part – discussing apprenticeships. We want booming and thriving tourism, hospitality and retail sectors, but I was struck by the imbalance in where some of the apprentices are. We spoke about cheffing and who has access to apprenticeships in this regard. The majority of them are in Munster, which puts Dublin and the west at a huge disadvantage because people who want to go...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Developing Rural Tourism: Discussion (3 May 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

...with that is the whole issue of work permits. There are 20,000 vacancies in the tourism sector alone. One of the issues we are very mindful of is that the rules on permits reference critical skills. Chefs are included in the critical skills programme and now there is an opportunity for managers, of which there are acute shortages, including preceding the pandemic. What is important is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: ...most reliant, is down. What is being done to increase hotel accommodation capacity, improve visitor numbers from the UK and ensure we increase the rate of critical skills visas being issued for chefs in particular?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...through the proper protocols or approvals. We know from the report that the Minister’s Secretary General’s account of events is at complete variance with the account of events from the then Taoiseach’s chef de cabinetas well as that of the Secretary General to the Government. Deirdre Gillane’s comments were very trenchant. She did not hold back at all and she...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Challenges Facing Providers of Tourist Accommodation in Ireland: Discussion (29 Mar 2023)

...tourism. That is going to inhibit our ability to grow. One area we need to look at is the permit application system. There has been a lot of talk about the critical skills list and whether, for example, chefs be on it. I will give two examples. We have two great guys working on our pastry team. Both are with us for their permit. They want to bring their families here and there is no...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...barracks had to be amalgamated to try to get recruits to pass out. Gormanston training camp cannot even be opened at the moment due to a lack of personnel. I will give some details of a 50-year-old chef who has a mortgage and three children. He is medically fit to carry on his work. He has been overseas seven times. He has high qualifications. Every time I raise the issue with the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...;naiste in recent weeks about privates in the Army being forced to retire at the age of 50. I know a man who is only 50 years of age. He has a family of three and is being forced to retire. He is a chef. The Army has only paid him pennies. He wants to work on. I have asked the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste what they are going to do. In two weeks' time, this man will be forced to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (28 Feb 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Sorca Clarke: 459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applicants to the commis chef apprenticeship level 6 programme in 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form. [9590/23]