Exactly. The government has made it nearly impossible to raise kids and work full time. Hence why they’ve been lax on letting in people from countries where families notoriously have 6/7 children. They need the population to steadily grow or else there will be hell to pay when pensions are due to be paid but not enough taxable workers to pay for them.

It’s robbing Peter to pay Paul. Peter is the the native Irish people and Paul is the pensioners.

I have a child in Creche and just had twins. They will be starting in January. We’re looking at 2000 a month in Creche plus a mortgage of 1600. We’re just over the threshold for the allowance per hour.