I move:
That Dáil Eireann approves of the Draft Convention concerning forced or compulsory labour adopted by the International Labour Conference at its Fourteenth Session, a copy of which was laid on the Table of the Dáil on the 10th day of December, 1930, and recommends the Executive Council to take the necessary steps for its ratification.
With this Convention we have even less touch than with the majority of the Conventions that come before the House. We did have a Convention here on slavery, and I used these words in describing it: "There is no compulsory or forced labour in this country." But again, this falls, as other Conventions do, into a category about which an appeal has been made by the Assembly to the League. Perhaps there is no special necessity for it, but we should, nevertheless, ratify it, in order that the general social legislation of the countries associated with the League should be brought as speedily as possible to the same level. We are not specially interested. It is for reasons of appeals made on these lines that we are moving it.