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Seanad: Covid-19 and the New Measures (Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (7 Dec 2021)

Ollie Crowe: ...ladder for the first time. We need to look at this. People may not want to work for business where, due to external events, they may have to reduce their hours at short notice. In this context, I am referring to chefs, managers and front of house staff. Employees who are essential to the business are not easily replaced. During a pandemic these skilled and capable people are being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)

...technical graphics. I know there is a huge uptake in those with the girls. Home economics should be offered in boys' schools. I think there would be a huge uptake. One of the most successful chefs in the world, Gordon Ramsay, is male. It should not just be considered as a subject for females. It should be offered. I hope I have answered the Chairman's questions.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Public Sector Pay (1 Dec 2021)

Michael McGrath: ...secretarial assistance, as well as ICT equipment, office equipment, printing facilities and graphic design services. SAs, parliamentary assistants, administrative assistants, administrators and chefs de cabinet are employed by Members and by qualifying parties but are paid by the commission. The commission also regulates the number of staff employed under the scheme and has oversight of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2021)

Damien English: ...times for other employment permit applications.  Cognisant of the significant impact the pandemic has had on the Hospitality Sector, when the sector reopened in July, my Department committed to prioritise the processing of chef employment permit applications received in the processing queue at that time, in order to support the sector.  My Department is very conscious of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Joe Flaherty: ...for employers in granting the visas but it is extremely frustrating for employers who have done everything at this end when they cannot get workers into the country. In one case I know the chef worked in a leading Dublin hotel and has opened his own restaurant at the peak of the pandemic. He is running it with his wife and son and is desperately trying to get a chef into the country....

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (30 Nov 2021)

Michael McGrath: ...the power to regulate the provision of secretarial facilities to Members and to qualifying parties. Secretarial assistants, administrative assistants, parliamentary assistants, administrators and chefs de cabinet are employed by Members and by qualifying parties but are paid by the commission. The commission also regulates the number of staff employed under the scheme and has oversight...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (23 Nov 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Dara Calleary: ...are macro. The industry may not be there to benefit from them unless we get a response in place. Finally, the EWSS should be expanded to protect key employees within hospitality, such as a chef, a particular barman or a skilled technician within an events company. The link between that company and the employee, as the Minister of State said, should be protected. The link between a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of the Withdrawal of Covid-19 Measures on Business: Discussion (17 Nov 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Ollie Crowe: I have three points to which I would like Mr. Hughes to respond. The first of them relates to the skilled staff shortages - for example, the shortage of chefs - that have been spoken about in the hospitality sector. The two issues in this respect are the red tape for the employees themselves and the costs to the employer. What is the Department doing to process this more quickly? What...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (16 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: ...issue arose with the EWSS. These businesses are looking for some extension to supports for people who had been in their employment for more than two or three years. These are skilled people, some of whom are chefs, bar managers and staff, and are not easily replaced. If one has a small business with a number of key people and if one cannot hang on to them when one opens up again, it...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 Oct 2021)

Niall Collins: ...education centres. FET is also provided through community and voluntary groups, commercial training providers and in workplaces. There are currently 3 apprenticeships in the hospitality sector; Commis Chef (level 6), Chef de Partie (level 7) and Sous Chef (level 8). A further Executive Chef programme (level 9) and a Bar Manger Apprenticeship (level 7) are in development. A new...

Seanad: British Government Legacy Proposals: Motion (13 Oct 2021)

Emer Currie: ...Its proposals are not about helping people to move on or building a reconciled future; its proposals will give it a rule-of-law lockdown and lock us in the past. Patsy Gillespie was a father of three. He was a civilian chef working in an army base in 1990. The IRA chained him to the steering wheel and pedals of a van containing a 1,200 lb bomb, held his family at gunpoint and ordered...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Working Conditions and Skills Shortages in Tourism and Hospitality Sector: Discussion (13 Oct 2021) See 5 other results from this debate

...University Dublin has just published research on gender in kitchens. This is really useful research which shows that there is a gender discrimination dimension to working in kitchens as a chef.

Recovery of Tourism and Aviation: Statements (7 Oct 2021) See 3 other results from this debate

Emer Higgins: ...pandemic, Ireland was increasingly seen not only as a great tourist destination but also a leading food tourism destination. Building on Ireland’s strong food and drink production we have Michelin star chefs, world-class restaurants and world-famous Irish pubs. We have food markets, food trails, cookery schools, breweries and distilleries. It is a thriving industry. Food and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Work Permits (5 Oct 2021) See 2 other results from this debate

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...June and early July. This is detrimental to the company. Another business I wish to mention is a four-star hotel, a fine hotel at the heart of my constituency. Again, it has been advertising for chefs and for others who are experienced in hospitality, but the quality and volume of staff required are simply not available. It is not an isolated issue, as I am hearing this from many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (5 Oct 2021)

...% of ordnance officer appointments are also unfilled. The problem is not limited to officer-specific appointments. It was recently reported that the Naval Service is experiencing a 33% deficiency in chefs along with other shortages in non-officer roles such as engine room artificers and medics. Similarly, the Army nursing service currently stands at only 3% to 4% of establishment. Due...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: As the most senior civil servant advising the Taoiseach and the Cabinet, I assume Mr. Fraser has meetings on a weekly or more frequent basis with Government advisers, the chef de cabinet and perhaps Ministers, and I am sure he is well used to a situation where eleventh-hour issues come before the Cabinet, for example, a couple of hours before a Cabinet meeting something urgent arises that he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (28 Sep 2021)

Niall Collins: ... 291 399 443 591 597 563 446 CGI technical Artist 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 Chef de Partie 0 0 0 31 40 5 22 Commis Chef 0 0 25 112 62 16 23 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (21 Sep 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

Christopher O'Sullivan: 83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether chefs could be included in the list of eligible occupations for critical skills employment permits due to the shortage of their skill set within the hospitality sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45205/21]

Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...How do we know there will not be a raft of cases relating to this, as regards people's medical histories? What provisions have been made to deal with that? With regard to employment law, no employer has an entitlement to ask an employee whether he or she is vaccinated. If two chefs are working in a restaurant, they will have to be 2 m apart. How is that going to work? How will it be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Jul 2021)

Simon Harris: ...5 2 Carpentry and Joinery pre-2016 Construction 6 4 CGI technical Artist 2018 ICT 7 2 Chef de Partie 2018 Hospitality 7 4 Commis Chef 2017 Hospitality 6 2 Construction Plant Fitting ...