Boost childcare pay, recognise women's work in the home,  says Rethink Ireland boss

"Our attitude to childcare must change. Too many women struggle without the flexibility and means to work outside the home," says Rethink Ireland CEO

Deirdre Mortell, CEO of Rethink Ireland, says Budget 2023 needs to address the issue of childcare, valuing care in the home as a job, tackling a root cause of poverty to benefit society as a whole.

Ireland needs to address the care imbalance in the home, and greatly improve working conditions in the professional childcare sector to enhance the economic mobility of women, says Deirdre Mortell, CEO of Rethink Ireland.

To boost women’s economic mobility, she says, Budget 2023 needs to address the issue of childcare, and to value care in the home and as a job in order to tackle a root cause of poverty to benefit society as a whole.