Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I condemn them unreservedly in the context of immigrant people. We have 70 million people ourselves worldwide who claim Irish ancestry. Many of those were deported or left because of economic circumstances. Many left because of colonisation and the consequences of the Great Hunger. It is something very deep in the Irish. I commend again our naval personnel, who have taken from the waters of the Mediterranean more than 7,000 people, men, women and children.

In life and politics, sometimes one must meet people with whom one disagrees. Sometimes we meet people and there may be very wide differences of opinion. Kennedy met Khrushchev, Reagan met Gorbachev-----

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