Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister, Deputy Stanton, has made substantial progress both in the terms of resettlement and relocation. I can give Deputy Adams the exact numbers later today that have arrived here and that are in transit. The Deputy will understand, in terms of the people found in the container in Wexford, which speaks for itself, the lengths to which those who want to send them here will go. Again, I commend the Naval Service personnel for the 13,000 people they have pulled from the Mediterranean Sea. I believe the experiences of some of the naval personnel in terms of injuries, beatings and sad cases are horrific. That is the reason that, while we are not part of the protocol, we send our Naval Service vessels to the region to assist in that humanitarian mission. I will have the exact figures supplied to Deputy Adams. The Minister, Deputy Stanton, gave them to me yesterday but, unfortunately, I cannot recall them now.

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