Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 28 Apr 1937

Vol. 66 No. 13

Public Business. - International Conventions:—Motions of Approval.

Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr. Lemass)

I move:—

That Dáil Eireann approves of the convention ensuring benefit or allowances to the involuntarily unemployed adopted by the International Labour Conference at its 18th Session, a copy of which was laid on the Table of the Dáil on the 7th May, 1935, and recommends the Executive Council to take the necessary steps for its ratification.

The convention to which I refer was, as stated in the Resolution, laid on the Table of the House in May, 1935. It was adopted by the International Labour Conference at its session in Geneva in June, 1934. It is proposed to ask the Dáil to approve of its ratification. The Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1920 to 1935, and the Unemployment Assistance Acts, 1933 and 1935, constitute adequate enabling legislation, and no alteration in these Acts will be necessary consequent on the ratification of the convention.

Motion agreed to.

Mr. Lemass

I move:—

That Dáil Eireann approves of the draft convention concerning the reduction of hours of work in glass bottle works adopted by the International Labour Conference at its Nineteenth Session, a copy of which was laid on the Table of the Dáil on the 13th January, 1936, and recommends the Executive Council to take the necessary steps for its ratification.

This International Convention was adopted at the International Labour Conference in 1935 and is entitled the Reduction of Hours of Work in Glass Bottle Works Convention. The convention confirms the principle laid down in the Forty-Hour Week Convention, 1935, including the maintenance of the standard of living. I have made regulations under the Conditions of Employment Act prescribing for workers in glass bottle works, where bottles are produced with automatic machinery, worked in successive shifts, and who are employed in connection with generators, tank furnaces, automatic machinery, kneading furnaces, and accessory operations. The shift system required the convention. Suitable provision was made in the regulations for the maintenance of weekly earnings. As these regulations provide adequate law for the implementing of the provisions of the convention, it is proposed to ask the assent of the Dáil to its ratification.

Question put and agreed to.