discussing our lands many gains and failures for the countries minister for european affairs pasco donahue. mr donahue member talking about immigration in our land. as you said it's a very pressing issue but europe as a whole has to deal with broader much larger issue of incoming immigration and i'm talking about refugees from africa. the middle east. some of that's related to the conflict in syria and in libya and i think ireland has a very unique position here because on the one hand for decades you've been receiving country and now you are once again a country of immigrants how do you think this issue should be dealt with in a broader european context other it's a hugely difficult and sensitive issue the three elements to how we believe the should be handled better in the future the first one is that we have to do all we can to make sure that people are not in a position to have to leave their country and region because of the terrible violence and state that's occurring there and europe a role to play there secondly we need to ensure that if they are travelling across the seeds as many of them hav