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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Ms Natalia Leane: There is a stigma around chefs and bad kitchens, for example. That is why my course co-ordinator researched the places for us and he recommended workplaces to us, rather than sending us out and telling us to find ourselves a job. When he found a place that he thought was solid, he would recommend that we go there because it would give a better experience. It would show...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is interesting. I heard this morning on the radio about a restaurant in Lisselton that is closing down. There is such a demand for chefs and for kitchen staff. It is having a great impact on the hospitality sector. People are crying out for chefs. I hear what Ms Leane is saying about employers for apprenticeships during their learning experience-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Ms Natalia Leane: I was always interested. I wanted to be a baker when I was a kid and I went from there. Secondary school definitely helped because I did the apprentice chef competition in MTU. A local chef and one of the lecturers from the IT run a cooking competition every year and they invite secondary students. It is essentially a smaller version of WorldSkills but just for cooking....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

...be good, however, if we could know more about what we could do as a result of continuing on with a subject. Home economics, for example, is seen as a subject where people just do cooking. I am a chef and I am biased, but we also do a lot of financial work in home economics, as well as sewing. It would be possible to do many jobs as a result of having studied this subject, but when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: ...as tough as the apprenticeship Mr. McSherry did and they might not have as long hours as Ms Yeates and Ms Leane are doing. Does Mr. Hourihan believe there might be a fallout for fabrication, bricklaying and chef apprenticeships from many more apprenticeships being introduced? Does Mr. Hourihan understand the question I am asking?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: ...or whatever go abroad for one, five or whatever number of years for work experience. Are there many in this cohort who emigrate after doing their apprenticeship and what is the reason for that? Chefs are sought all over the world. There is a scarcity of them here and the Restaurants Association of Ireland has said so almost on a daily basis. Have many of this cohort of students...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Paul Kehoe: My apologies. I put down "chef" but I just read "logistics" here. I know a company in Wexford would take Ms Yeates on tomorrow morning. I will call on Mr. English and Mr. Hourihan to wrap up.