Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland

Mr. Aaron Mullaniff:

Regardless of how many more people come through the doors of Vision Ireland, Vision Ireland does not receive any increase in its core grant. With money not following the service user, that piece is unsustainable. We have a cradle-to-grave approach. We have early years teams, school-going age teams, working employment teams, job readiness teams, job retention teams, adult teams and older adult teams. They are maxed out with their caseloads. We will probably see 3,000 new people for the first time in addition to the 20,000 people on our books whom we are also supporting. That is not sustainable. Vision Ireland needs to look at that and engage further on it. Today presents a great opportunity to flag that. We value the question the Deputy is asking.

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