The National Women’s Council of Ireland is launching its pre-Budget submission this morning.
From the launch…
“I have spent €80,000 on childcare to date” Linda Brennan, of Symantec #Budget360 – we need a Scandinavian childcare model!
— Womenscouncilireland (@NWCI) September 14, 2015
“Well educated women are forced out of the workforce because they cannot afford childcare” Linda Brennan #Budget360 — Womenscouncilireland (@NWCI) September 14, 2015
Key fact: 50% of women workers earn €20,000 or less #Budget360
— Womenscouncilireland (@NWCI) September 14, 2015
Key fact: 63% of lone parents experienced material deprivation in 2014 #Budget360
— Womenscouncilireland (@NWCI) September 14, 2015
National Women’s Council of Ireland
Childcare, Violence against Women, Decent Work: Turn it around for women in Budget 2016
“we need a Scandinavian childcare model!”….
I need a Scandinavian model too.
Haha, he means to put his mickey in..
Mickey being his two-year old baby, who would flourish in a Scandinavian model child-care system.
But you have to agree that the baby boxes they get are fantastic. Rich and poor women alike look forward to the Baby box.
I think distributing babies in boxes might be a step too far.
I’m not looking forward to a baby coming out of my box
Scandinavian social provisions require Scandinavian taxation inputs. I think we – the benighted PAYE workers – are paying quite enough already but thanks anyway.
This is a good point. People want good public services but don’t want to pay for it.
Utter disenchantment with the government;s ability to run them doesn’t help, either.
It doesn’t. But considering how much we are taxed and for how many bloody things, services provided by the state ought to be significantly better than they are. Pick anything. .. Health, transport, gardaí, education. All mismanaged and leaking money. Shame really.
True. France seems to have a good system too so not always the Scandis.
This is an convenient complaint to make.
Services aren’t good enough because they are underfunded but you ‘don’t trust’ the govt to provide them so you don’t want to pay tax. Not because you are greedy and short-sighted or anything.
Similar to how well-off American Republicans are always complaining about the imperfections of the federal govt. It just so happens that their remedy is to ‘starve the beast’.
Ireland has the most progressive tax system in the OECD, according to the OECD. The middle classes here are not paying enough tax relative to other developed countries.
Eh, should it not be 180?
Turn 360 degrees and you’re facing the same way.
And with maths like we still leave the wimminz in charge of jobs handling money and that. Who’s with me? *Goes up high**Crickets*
That’s hilarious – I think you’re quite right.
Did no-one spot it?
And that’s why the ladies need more money in the budget – for basic maths.
Oh…. hehe
The effective tax rate is much the same.
Scandanavian social services require 1) Scandanavian rates of taxation. 2) Scandanavian rates of worker participation (abysmally low in Ireland) to provide taxation. 3) Public service accountability (non-existent in Ireland) and 4) General confidence in public service provision (see 3 above).
5) Massive oil wealth doesn’t do any harm, either*
*just Norway
“Well educated women are forced out of the workforce because they cannot afford childcare”, says a director of American multinational, Symantec…
And your point? Childcare is expensive even for people who make a decent wage. That’s not surprising.
Apparently it never dawned on these “well educated” women that childcare was going to be expensive. You’d swear it was an issue that has never come up before.
Don’t get me wrong, I think the Scandinavian system is the way to go, and yes, I understand it means more taxation.
But some of these types of tweets and statistics, it’s just like “yeah, exactly what fupping part of that was unforseeable?”.
People know how expensive it is, they just don’t know quite how expensive until they are paying it. Much like how you know being a parent is tough until you are one and then you are like “what have I done??!!!”.
I think one issue is that childcare is still seen as a “women’s” issue when it isn’t, it’s a parental issue. Both parents are paying for that childcare, not just one.
The stats are meaningless when divorced from context, as they are in those vacuous tweets.
don’t have ducking children if you don’t want to pay, don’t expect me to pay for your children!
Cool. Don’t expect anyone to look after you when you’re old then. Just go die under a hedge.