BUDGET 2016: ‘I upskilled like Kenny said, but I’ve still no job and I live on €58 a week’

An artist left suicidal by the pressure of paying a mortgage and surviving on €58 a week says she followed the Taoiseach’s advice to upskill but is still left with nothing.

Rose Sinclair Doyle, 45, from south Dublin, has battled depression for years and is struggling to break out of three years of unemployment during and after completing a degree. She claimed the budget did little for the less well-off and those aspiring to better themselves.

“I find it really frustrating that I have put all this time in, I took the Taoiseach’s advice and I went back to upskill and put time into education and it has been a long struggle,” says Rose.