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Fri 05 May 2004Labour says citizenship proposal 'deeply flawed'No campaign/Labour Party document: Labour has published a detailed critique of the Government's citizenship referendum proposal arguing that it is "deeply flawed" and should be rejected.The document, prepared by TCD law professor and Labour candidate Ms Ivana Bacik, also argues that the Minister for Justice, Mr McDowell, has greatly exaggerated the potential effect of the recent Chen case on the numbers of non-EU women who may come to Ireland to give birth.