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: Naomi Long, MLA

Vice-Chairperson: Jim Wells, MLA

Secretary: Michelle O’Neill, MLA

Treasurer: Pat Ramsey, MLA

Group Members

MLAs

Naomi Long, Alliance	John McCallister, UUP
Trevor Lunn, Alliance	Jim Wells, DUP
Roy Beggs, UUP	Pat Doherty, Sinn Fein
Kieran McCarthy, Alliance	Michelle O’Neill, Sinn Fein
Pat Ramsey, SDLP	George Robinson, DUP
George Savage, UUP	Brian Wilson, Green
William Irwin, DUP	Dolores Kelly, SDLP
Sam Gardiner, UUP	Edwin Poots, DUP
Fred Cobain, UUP

Contact Details

Mr Chris Wilson
RNIB
40 Linenhall Street
Belfast
BT2 8BA

Tel: 028 9032 9373
Email: Chris.Wilson@rnib.org.uk

Financial or other benefits received

None