‘There must be a fairer way’

AN apartment in negative equity and being unable to afford a car have been made worse by the loss of about €100 a month for primary teacher Lisa McMunn.

The native of Castlebar, Co Mayo, left a public relations job to become a teacher in 2006 and is in her third year of work in a non-permanent position at St Louis Infant National School in the Dublin suburb of Rathmines, earning about €38,000 a year.

“After the income levy and the pension levy in the last year already, my take-home pay is down around €200 to just over €2,000. Now I’ll be losing around 5.4%, most of it off the first €30,000, which means I’m down another €100 every month from January,” said Lisa.