Citizenship vote – We need time to get this right

If anybody still laboured under the illusion that the citizenship referendum was a straightforward issue, then the specially commissioned report for the Children’s Rights Alliance (CRA) would dispel that notion.

The CRA represents 76 non-governmental organisations including such august bodies as Barnardos, the ISPCC, UNICEF and ASTI and has already called for a "no" vote in the referendum which, it says, if passed would contravene the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In any case, CRA maintains that the amendment will not satisfactorily address the concerns the Government has raised about pressures on maternity hospitals.