Varadkar: Some women will have to choose between career or mortgage

Some working women will have to choose between their careers and paying the mortgage if they enter a tough new insolvency regime, Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has signalled.

After days of confusion over whether parents would have to surrender jobs if their childcare costs were greater than their take- home pay, Mr Varadkar said such a situation could not be ignored.

“I know one or two women who probably don’t make very much money at all from working, but they do it to keep their position on the career ladder, if you like, and that is a legitimate thing to do.