EU Foreign Affairs Ministers are meeting this morning to discuss the deaths of over 600 people in the Mediterranean sea.
The migrants had been fleeing Libya when their boat capsized off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa in the early hours of Sunday morning.
It's the second such incident in a week and brings to one thousand the number of people believed to have died attempting to gain refuge in Europe.
Chairperson of the Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs, Pat Breen, says Italy should not be expected to deal with the issue alone:
