Vol. 504 No. 5
103 Mr. Stanton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will report on contacts with the International Labour Organisation since the beginning of 1999; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12458/99]
The International Labour Organisation is the United Nations agency which deals with employment and labour market issues and whose mission is to improve standards and conditions of work and to encourage productive employment throughout the world.
Ireland recently ratified a further five ILO conventions. These are Convention No. 111 concerning discrimination in employment and occupation; Convention No. 177 concerning home work; Convention No. 178 concerning the inspection of seafarers' working and living conditions; Convention No. 179 concerning the recruitment and placement of seafarers and Convention No. 180 concerning seafarers' hours of work and manning of ships. A 1996 protocol to the Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976 and an instrument of amendment to the constitution of the ILO were also adopted by Ireland.
