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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