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The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in its report referring, among other issues, to the modifications made to the national list of occupational diseases. With reference to its previous comments, it notes in particular with satisfaction the 2005 amendment to the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations, 1985, including among the occupations liable to cause anthrax infection the handling, loading, unloading or transport of animals of a type susceptible to infection with anthrax or of the products or residues of such animals. The Committee also notes that the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) is currently undertaking an overall review of the list of occupational diseases for which benefits are paid in order to update and simplify it and that the principles of Convention No. 42 will be borne in mind in this context.

The Committee is also raising a number of other points in a request addressed directly to the Government.