Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are giving leadership on the EU-Africa issue and hopefully in the autumn I will be visiting Africa with the German Minister. Germany has a very similar approach to Ireland on this issue and we need big countries and big economies to back this type of thinking if we are to fund any project addressing the neighbourhood relationship we are to have with that continent. A big part of the migration response needs to be how we invest in, and partner with, the source countries for many of the migrants who are looking to come to Europe at the moment.

I have a very liberal approach to migration generally. However, I also believe that we have to have systems which provide certainty-----

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