Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 25 Jan 1966

Vol. 220 No. 1

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Joint Labour Committees.

91.

Mr. Mullen

asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce the existing number of joint labour committees operating within the ambit of the Labour Court; and the type of industry and the classification and number of workers covered by each committee concerned.

Dr. Hillery

As the reply is in the form of a tabular statement, I propose, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, to circulate it with the Official Report.

Following is the statement:

LIST of Joint Labour Committees.

Joint Labour Committee	Area Covered	Classes of Workers	Number of Workers*
1. Aerated Waters and Wholesale Bottling.	Whole	General Workers	1,800
2. Boot and Shoe Repairing	,,	Operatives and Learners	520
3. Brush and Broom	,,	Operatives and General Workers.	400
4. Button-Making	,,	General Workers	220
5. Creameries	,,	Maintenance Mechanics, Fitters, Buttermakers, Cheesemakers, Enginemen, Firemen, Boilermen and other General Workers.	2,800
6. General Waste Materials Reclamation.	,,	General Workers	470
7. Handkerchief and House- hold Piece Goods.	,,	Females only. General Workers and Learners.	500
8. Law Clerks	,,	Managing Clerks, Conveyancing Clerks, Cost Clerks, General Clerks, Typists, Shorthand-Typists and Book-keepers.	1,450
9. Messengers	Cork City	Messengers	500
10. Messengers	Dublin City and Dún Laoghaire	,,	2,500
11. Messengers	Limerick City.	,,	300
12. Messengers	Waterford City.	,,	150
13. Packing	Whole State	General Workers and Learners.	1,270
14. Provender Milling	Whole State	General Workers	1,500
15. Shirtmaking	,,	Cutters and other General Workers and Learners.	2,700
16. Sugar Confectionery and Food Preserving.	,,	General Workers and Learners.	6,300
17. Tailoring	Whole State	Cutters, Machinists and	5,000
		other General Workers
		and Learners.
18. Tobacco	,,	General Workers	1,600
19. Women's Clothing and Millinery	,,	Cutters, Machinists and other General Workers and Learners.	7,900
20. Hairdressing	—	Male and female workers employed in ladies and gents' hairdressing in the County and County Borough of Dublin, the Borough of Dú Laoghaire and the Urban District of Bray.	These two Committees are the most recently established and particulars of the number of workers are not yet available
21. Hotels	—	Male and female workers employed throughout the State except the County Boroughs of Dublin and Cork and the Borough of Dú Dun Laoghaire.

* The figures in this column are for 1964, the most recent year for which figures are available.