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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

Mr. Adrian Cummins: I shall respond to the question on chefs. Nine institutes of technology provide chef training programmes but there have been cutbacks in education. It is an expensive course to run because of the amount of money needed to provide equipment in the kitchen, products and so on. There are nine institutes of technology, with approximately five other education and training...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: ...situation where multiples can reclaim VAT on below cost selling. Something must be done to force up the price of alcohol in off-licences. How many schools are involved in the training of chefs? What must we do to generate more chefs? With tourist numbers increasing there is an issue with the number of chefs working in the trade. With regard to the perspective from my county,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

Mr. Adrian Cummins: With regard to the chef training, we have had great difficulty over recent years in getting apprenticeship programmes up and running, so much so that we have a crisis in our industry. The success of the VAT reduction has led to jobs being created and, unfortunately, we have taken our foot off the pedal in terms of training young people and getting people off the live...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

Mr. Adrian Cummins: There are approximately 500 people per annum completing chef training. We need to double that. The Government has set a target of creating 50,000 jobs by 2020. We urgently need to create more training spaces. Unfortunately, our calls are going unheard. A high-profile Irish pub in Paris will charge €10 for a pint of Guinness. Comparing the two capital cities...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

...Íde in Dublin and we are also considering doing a pilot in Galway as well. We would like to roll that out across the country. Unfortunately, there are three State agencies involved with tourism and chef training and we need just one agency to do it. It should be brought under one umbrella, with the process brought under the bodies that were the VECs from the get-go. The Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: ...at this committee a year and a half or two years ago in which he stated that with the level of opportunity for work that exists in the restaurant industry, there was a complete lack of proper apprenticeships for trainee chefs. Could he update us on any developments? Although it is not the only organisation that is involved with this, I would like to see his organisation do more about...