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

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