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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Developing Rural Tourism: Discussion (3 May 2023)

...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...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Developing Rural Tourism: Discussion (3 May 2023)

...sector and reducing what was at the time a backlog in processing work permits. The Department has really turned that around so key skills in the sector now have a fast turnaround, including for chefs and others. Without making any commitments on that Department's behalf, it is responsive to the needs of the sector. If there is an argument to be made there, my experience is the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Developing Rural Tourism: Discussion (3 May 2023)

...have faced already with regard to that. We are involved in apprenticeships and have been there from the beginning. We have developed it. It has taken us six years to get to where we are with cheffing apprenticeships and it has been a steep learning curve for us. It is very productive in terms of getting to the end and rolling it out. We now need to roll out delivery of the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Developing Rural Tourism: Discussion (3 May 2023)

...We need to root them out or re-educate them. We have that in every sector of the economy. I believe we have made great progress around that. We sill have a deficit in certain skills, such as cheffing. We are going to have a deficit within cheffing for the foreseeable future. The attraction of non-EU nationals coming into Ireland for cheffing is very important. A great deal of work...