where we are discussing our lens many gains and failures for the country's minister for european affairs pascoe donahue mr donahue we were talking about immigration in our land. as you said it's a very pressing issue of europe as a whole has to deal with broader much larger issue of incoming immigration i'm talking about refugees from africa and the middle east some of that 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 the broader european continent 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 break that's occurring there and europe the role to play there secondly we need to ensure that if they are travelling across the seeds as man