BUDGET 2016: All I want to do is get a job, says Lorraine

For Lorraine Cooke, the test of whether the budget would work for her was whether it would allow her to get a job. It failed.

The 27-year-old Galway native, who has been blind since birth, is tired of scraping by on welfare and desperately wants to get a paying job.

But to do that, she needs a stepping stone into the workforce and, so far, that’s been denied to her.