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.

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

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.

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