Should the budget do something specifically for single people? Lunchtime Live is asking.
That’s the question Andrea Gilligan is asking onAndrea said it should come as “no surprise” to regular listeners that she is single and she often feels the system is weighted in favour of couples.“I’ve decided all this week here, we’re going to look at the cost of being single in Ireland today," she said.
“That’s everything from saving for your house deposit, if you’re renting at the moment, if you’re thinking of buying, drawing down the mortgage, the bills, holidaying alone. “It’s not all doom and gloom - we’ll chat about the social aspects as well and everything in between. “We talk about price hikes a lot and we talk about the cost of living a lot but we so rarely talk about it from the single perspective and, in my experience, the housing game is rigged against single people.
“Even the bills; my TV licence came in only the other day. I had to renew it and unlike when I was in the house share and you could split the bill with four others, you are fully funding the full whack of it.”Andrea said her “biggest worry” is what not the everyday costs, but what would she do if her circumstances change.
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