Mother of one believes she will never own her own home — and Budget 2025 did nothing to help 

Having had to move back into her parents' home in her 40s, Doireann Barrett is now preparing to move into a council house, a place she will never own
The Budget 2025 extension of the help-to-buy scheme is only of use to high income earners. Doireann Barrett from Tralee resigned to the 'waste' of 'spending money to live somewhere you’ll never own'. Picture: Domnick Walsh

The Budget 2025 extension of the help-to-buy scheme is only of use to high income earners. Doireann Barrett from Tralee resigned to the 'waste' of 'spending money to live somewhere you’ll never own'. Picture: Domnick Walsh

Tue, 01 Oct, 2024 - 20:42
Sarah Horgan

Doireann Barrett is all too familiar with the arduous process of finding a place to call home in this day and age — an ordeal she describes as both “heartbreaking and humiliating".  

It was with a heavy heart that she absorbed the details of Budget 2025 which she fears may have dashed the hopes of single parents like herself desperate to access the property ladder.

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