The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has urged the electorate to vote in favour of the proposed constitutional change to citizenship on Friday.
In a statement issued as he left the country for the G8 summit in the US, Mr Ahern claimed that there was a ‘pull’ factor towards Ireland because this country was unique in the EU in granting an automatic right to citizenship at birth.
Nurses' league calls for No vote
Earlier, the League of Filipino Nurses called for a No vote in the referendum.
The league is one of 45 organisations that jointly urged voters to reject the Government's proposal to change the constitutional right to citizenship of anyone born on this island.
Last year, 235 children were born to Filipino women in Ireland, most of them nurses.
A spokesperson for the league, Dale Belino, said the referendum was about a blanket denial of rights to children of families like theirs, and that their children had done nothing to deserve this.
