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Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Impact of Covid-19 on the Hospitality Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

..., major associated costs and extreme restrictions. There is no restaurant or gastropub representation on the boards of Fáilte Ireland, Tourism Ireland or the tourism recovery oversight group. The chef apprenticeship scheme is cost-prohibitive with very little output of qualified apprentices based on the size and scale of the industry. Finally, there is a lack of a joined-up...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Impact of Covid-19 on the Hospitality Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

.... If it has limited space, then unfortunately it should only be able to take a limited number of customers. It is not commercially viable to open for food business for 15 customers when a chef, waiting staff and potentially bar staff have to be brought on board. The limit should be related to the space available. The second point is that outdoor dining applies to less than 10% of the...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Impact of Covid-19 on the Hospitality Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

...at the start of the year, before this, and had the unenviable task of letting 70 people go three times in the past year. To put some real pictures on what is happening on the ground, I lost my head chef in The Bridge 1859 to carpentry, and the guy I replaced him with is now leaving me to become a full-time truck driver. My premises will probably have to build from a third up. The point...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Impact of Covid-19 on the Hospitality Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Ms Elaina Fitzgerald Kane: There are acute shortages even with so many people laid off. There has always been a shortage in chef skills. My colleagues have shortages in front office, food service and accommodation staff. A considerable amount of work is being done on front-loading, upskilling and cross-selling opportunities but it will not be enough. Ideally, we need a lead-in period of...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Impact of Covid-19 on the Hospitality Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Mr. Mark McGowan: The most important part of this is an extension of the employment wage subsidy scheme until normal levels of business resume. As with my colleague, Mr. Anderson, my head chef moved into construction, so that is two people on this panel alone. The problem is evident. We are in the people industry. It is different in that we will need approximately eight weeks to have...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Impact of Covid-19 on the Hospitality Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Ciarán Cannon: ...our tourism sector and the hospitality sector is not represented on it, that must be resolved quickly. If not today, perhaps Mr. Cummins and I could have a conversation in the near future on the chef apprenticeship scheme, which he described as being cost prohibitive. I know from speaking to the current Minister for Education and to previous Ministers in that role that there is very...