Tax breaks to employ nannies urged

WORKING parents should be given tax breaks for employing nannies to plug the country’s childcare gap, an expert urged yesterday.

Kathy O'Dwyer of Job Options Bureau, an agency specialising in placing nannies, au pairs and parent helps with families and crèches, said the different demands of working parents were not being met.

The Government had to do more than provide tax breaks for the development of more crèches, she said.