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The manufactured outrage over
Leo Varadkar's off the cuff comments in relation to personal insolvency legislation is another example of over the top, reactionary nonsense coming from the Women's lobby in Ireland. It's about time that we all got a grip of ourselves and started being a little more sensible about things. Varadkar said that working for less money than the cost of childcare in order to keep a career going "a legitimate thing to do but if you can’t pay your mortgage as a result or you can’t buy your groceries as a result well then that’s something that needs to be taken into account in any insolvency arrangement.” Cue public anguish and a complete distortion of a headline in the Irish Examiner screaming "VARADKAR: WOMEN TO CHOOSE CAREER OR MORTGAGE"
Ivana Bacik
on Morning Ireland cried foul as it was not in the interests of the country to push women back out of the workforce. Orla O'Connor from the National Women's Council
said Varadkar's comments were anti-women, and anti-children. Twitter, erm, melted. It's entirely nonsense.
