‘Work is about having a bit of a life for myself’

NICOLA KIELY is one of the many young mothers forced to question the value of working when most of her salary goes on paying childcare bills.

After handing over €660 a month on child-minder and play school bills, almost 75% of her monthly salary, she is left with little more than €200 a from her administration job at UCC.

The mother-of-two has given up getting angry about the lack of childcare provision in successive budgets, resigned to the fact that the Government doesn’t regard granting tax breaks to working parents as a priority.