Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I view this as the beginning and that we will get a strategy. I second Deputy Durkan's proposals on the next actions for the committee. In that context, it strikes me there are issues that I would like to put on the record. There are always cohorts that remain excluded from the eye-test scheme. People either have to have a medical card, fall under the treatment benefit scheme or hold a health amendment Act card. I would expect some sort of strategy to plug those holes in the system because, anecdotally, in my area where there is lots of deprivation, the clinical outcomes for people tend to be lower and preventable illnesses loom large.

Does Vision Ireland expect any strategy to include the supporting sectors, for example, the areas of diabetes and genetics, and the Irish Heart Foundation, which looks at eating and smoking?