Irish singer/songwriter Bob Geldof has offered to take in four refugee families immediately and accommodate them in his houses in Kent and London, according to RTE.

"If there's a new economy then there needs to be a new politics, and it's a failure of that new politics that's led to this disgrace, this absolute sickening disgrace," Geldof said in an interview on RTE Radio One, referring to the migrant crisis.

"I'm prepared - I'm lucky, I've a place in Kent and a flat in London - me and (partner) Jeanne would be prepared to take three families immediately in our place in Kent and a family in our flat in London, immediately, and put them up until such time as they can get going and get a purchase on their future," he added.

Three-year-old Syrian Aylan Kurdi's dead body washed up on a beach in Turkey earlier this week after a failed immigration attempt, as HNGN previously reported. Geldof, who has campaigned on a number of social issues, expressed his disgust at such incidents, calling them a source of shame.

"I look at it with profound shame and a monstrous betrayal of who we are and what we wish to be," he said. "We are in a moment currently now that will be discussed and impacted on in 300 years time."

Nearly four million people have been displaced because of the conflict in Syria and thousands have perished trying to flee to Europe, according to The Independent.