Joyce Fegan: Don’t make us choose between caring and career

This side of the pandemic — and after all the talk of learnings around remote working, hybrid working, commuting, and quality of life — it seems our Government has missed out on implementing another lesson lockdowns supposedly taught us

Let's not continue to force people to choose between their caring and their careers. Let's not continue with the outdated charade that every single worker has an unpaid stay-at-home supernanny who manages all of the caring responsibilities, house work, drop-offs, collections, cooking and cleaning, library book returns, visits to nursing homes — and who never ever gets even a little bit tired, not to mention sick.

There are three schools to the left of my house, and one Montessori opposite.

Every morning from about 8am, school-going children whizz past on their bikes, with parents in tow pushing younger siblings up the hill in buggies and double buggies, or with babies strapped to their chest. Cars pile up, parking on bends or across people’s driveways.