{"id":16586,"date":"2015-10-06T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=16586"},"modified":"2015-10-06T13:00:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:00:04","slug":"adrian-cummins-chief-executive-of-the-restaurants-association-of-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=16586","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Cummins &#8211;  Chief Executive of The Restaurants Association of Ireland."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Mark Finnegan is joined by Adrian Cummins, Chief Executive of The Restaurants Association of Ireland.<br \/>\nAccording to a report published by the Restaurants Association of Ireland, 6,177 new jobs in the Food, Tourism and Hospitality sectors have been created in Dublin since the reduced VAT rate of 9% was introduced in July 2011.<br \/>\nSpeaking about the launch of the Report and the success of the reduced VAT rate, Adrian said that \u201cAs this report proves, in terms of creating new jobs in the food and accommodation sector, the introduction of the new VAT rate in July 2011 has been a major driver of local employment growth. 6,177 new direct jobs have been created in Dublin alone, with 22,300 new direct jobs created across the whole country.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>You can read the report in full and get more Information on the RAI on their website<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rai.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\"> HERE<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_648\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/northsidetoday-05-10-2015-003.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('648','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/northsidetoday-05-10-2015-003.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/northsidetoday-05-10-2015-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=16586-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/northsidetoday-05-10-2015-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"northsidetoday-05-10-2015-003.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 11:56 &#8212; 13.6MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Finnegan is joined by Adrian Cummins, Chief Executive of The Restaurants Association of Ireland. According to a report published by the Restaurants Association of Ireland, 6,177 new jobs in the Food, Tourism and Hospitality sectors have been created in Dublin since the reduced VAT rate of 9% was introduced in July 2011. Speaking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_649\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/northsidetoday-05-10-2015-003.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('649','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/northsidetoday-05-10-2015-003.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/northsidetoday-05-10-2015-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=16586-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/northsidetoday-05-10-2015-003.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"northsidetoday-05-10-2015-003.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 11:56 &#8212; 13.6MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1975,2239,3849],"class_list":["post-16586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northside-today","tag-mark-finnegan","tag-northside-today","tag-restaurant-association-of-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16587,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions\/16587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}