‘Parents get the short straw, yet again’

“PARENTS have been ignored again.”

That was the first reaction mother-of-two Aileen Bradshaw had to Budget 2004.

Although she wasn’t surprised the Finance Minister didn’t provide any relief for parents paying out a lot of money for quality childcare, she had hoped that after six other Budgets, Charlie McCreevy would finally recognise the role working parents play in the economy.