#Budget18 case study: ‘Creche increase is the main positive change for me’

Full-time student and lone- parent Róisín Smyth, 27, rents a two-bedroom apartment with her two-year-old daughter, having previously lived in emergency accommodation.

Yesterday’s budget will make a big difference to her and her daughter Lainie-Grace.

Róisín is a second-year sociology and social policy student in Trinity and got an apartment one week before college through the housing assistance payment (HAP) scheme.