Budget 2013 – Case studies

‘They don’t help the ordinary man, they just take more from us’

Less than an hour after Michael Noonan had finished his budget speech, Kenneth Collins had worked out he and his wife Debbie will be down €1,130 next year.

The couple, who live in Farranree on Cork City’s northside, are both working full time. Kenneth is a truck driver and Debbie an accountant.