A Fine Gael MEP says the European Union must put a common system in place to address the migrants crisis.

It comes after the deaths of 71 migrants who were found in the back of a lorry which was left beside a motorway in Austria.

Four children, including a one-year-old girl, are among the dead.

Four people have been arrested.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says some countries, including Ireland and the UK, are not taking part in the common European asylum policy.

Fine Gael MEP Brian Hayes says its important to help internally displaced people to rebuild their lives in their countries of origin.

The German Chancellor said the three countries who have an opt-out from the Europe quota system that requires nations to take refugees - Ireland, the UK and Denmark - saying these nations are not doing their fair share to alleviate the situation.

Ireland is currently taking 1,120 in two resettlement programmes, with Denmark taking 1,000 and the UK 2,200. Germany by contrast will take 10.500 of the target 60,000 migrants due to be resettled from the migrants who have arrived in Greece and Italy. Last week Germany predicted some 650,000 - and possibly as high as 750,000 - refugees will arrive in the country in 2015.