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Wed 01 Jan 2007Rape crisis centres back plan for March referendumRape crisis centres have welcomed the Government's plans to hold a referendum next March that would address the fallout of the statutory rape controversy.The executive director of Rape Crisis Network Ireland, Fiona Neary, said the move would help to ensure our laws held sexual predators of children to account.