"In Ireland, women with children work fewer hours than men with children and earn less money. Nearly 80 per cent of men with children work a 40-hour week or more, whereas only 15 per cent of women with children do. Childcare costs are not seen as essential family expenditure, they are an optional luxury....
"An essential public good
"Childcare services are no luxury. They are an essential public good without which no country can claim that women and men are treated as equals.
"Without affordable childcare, women do not work the same number of hours per week as men. Costs are much higher here than in all other EU countries....
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