All Party Group on Visual Impairment
Purpose: The group will oversee and provide political support for the implementation of the RNIB NI Pledge and National Vision Strategy which will significantly improve the lives of blind and partially sighted people in NI. The key action areas to be addressed are prevention, educational attainment, accessible information, employment, maximising independence and ending exclusion.
Forthcoming Meetings
To Be Arranged
Officers of the Group
Chairperson: Jim Wells MLA
Vice-Chairperson: Pat Ramsey MLA
Group Members
MLAs
Jim Wells, DUP
Pat Ramsey, SDLP
Steven Agnew, Green
Mark H Durkan, SDLP
Trevor Lunn, Alliance
Samuel Gardiner, UUP
Roy Beggs, UUP
Dolores Kelly, SDLP
William Irwin, DUP
Chris Lyttle, Alliance
Kieran McCarthy, Alliance
George Robinson, DUP
Sammy Douglas, DUP
John McCallister, NI21
Michaela Boyle, Sinn Fein
Contact Details
Mrs Sylvia Morrison
RNIB
40 Linenhall Street
Belfast
BT2 8BA
Tel: 028 9032 9373
Financial or other benefits received
None