Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

In answer to a Dáil question of 22 November the House was informed that the Government has no plans to and would not sign the 1990 United Nations International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members of their Families. On 25 January I was informed that signing and ratifying the convention was under review. Does the Government propose to sign and ratify the convention? On today's Order Paper, pages 73 and 75, two agreements are listed, one as No. 1 in the statutory section and the second as No. 1 in the non-statutory section. If both agreements are administrative and legal, as was suggested to me some weeks ago, why is the first one in the statutory category, which seems to suggest there was a legal requirement to publish it and bring it before the House? One agreement is from 2003 and the other is from 2004.

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