Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2001, published 90th ILC session (2002)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Ireland (Ratification: 1951)

The Committee notes the partial information supplied by the Government in reply to its previous comments. It notes with interest the inspection campaign undertaken in the hotel and catering sector focusing on the enforcement of the provisions of the Protection of Young Persons Act, 1996, and the appointment of seven additional inspectors to monitor the implementation of the National Minimum Wage Act of 1 April 2000. The Committee also notes that immigrant labour is one of the current priorities of the inspection services, who undertook the recovery of monies on behalf of those workers. The Government is asked to continue to provide information on the activities of the inspection services, as well as communicating information on the numbers of labour inspectors, their geographical distribution and distribution by speciality as well as the material means at their disposal for accomplishing their tasks.

While noting that the annual inspection report on occupational safety and health is in the process of being transmitted, the Committee again reminds the Government that the central authority should publish and communicate to the ILO, within the deadlines prescribed by Article 20 of the Convention, an annual general report on the work of the inspection services containing the information required on each of the subjects defined by Article 21, subparagraphs (a) to (g). The Committee again expresses the hope that the Government will not fail to take the measures to ensure prompt implementation of the abovementioned provisions by the central authority.