Q&A: What is the EU Migration Pact and how will it affect Ireland?

Migrants are helped to evacuate a partially deflated rubber dinghy by the rescue personnel of the SOS Mediterranee humanitarian ship Ocean Viking in the Mediterranean last month. Picture: Johanna de Tessieres/ SOS Mediterranee via AP

What is the EU Migration Pact?

The new EU Migration Pact is an agreement that seeks to change how European countries manage the flow of asylum seekers into the European Union.