Ireland ‘will step up to the table’ on refugee crisis – McGuinness

Refugees in Hungary clashed with police
this morning as trouble broke out at a migrant reception camp at the border
between Hungary and Serbia.  Tomorrow the
President of the EU Commission Jean-Claude Juncker is to outline EU proposals
to relocate additional refugees across EU countries. The Fine Gael MEP Mairead
McGuinness says putting a figure on the number of refugees countries should take debases the
scale of the refugee crisis.

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Refugee crisis shouldn’t be a ‘numbers’ game – McGuinness

The Fine Gael MEP Mairead McGuinness is
warning that the escalating refugee and migrant crisis shouldn’t become an
issue of numbers. Ms McGuinness was speaking in the European Parliament in
Strasbourg following the Tanaiste Joan Burton’s proposal for Ireland to take in
5000 [five thousand] refugees. Tomorrow the President of the EU Commission
Jean-Claude Juncker will outline the EU’s proposal to relocate additional
refugees across EU countries. Here’s Mairead McGuiness.

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