Joyce Fegan: In 2020, is a woman's place still in the home?

Parents don't need €1 here and a week's leave there, as promised in this week's budget — what parents need is a public model of childcare

Liz and Sebastien Costigan Fleury with their 18 month old twins Zac, left and Jules. Photograph Moya Nolan

It is just so ironic. Lockdown exposed how crucial the role of childcare is to the functioning of our society and our economy, and then the Government reveals its big giveaway budget and there's not a whiff about it. Not a whiff.

Parents don't need €1 here and a week's leave there — what parents need is a public model of childcare, full stop.