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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

Seán Crowe: ...welcome from Vision Ireland: Mr. Chris White, group executive officer; Mr. Aaron Mullaniff, chief services officer and Ms Eadaoin Keane, chief marketing officer. Witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable, or otherwise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

...with vision impairment or blindness are ten times more likely to experience depression, isolation and loneliness and three times more likely to experience hip fractures and earlier admission to long-term care. The HSE will provide Vision Ireland with approximately €23 to support each person who is living with visual impairment or blindness in Ireland in 2024 but it has not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The committee has discussed the issue of cataracts and their removal over the past 12 months in particular. As Mr. Mullaniff said, patients are on waiting lists, which can be very long, and that can be very challenging for people who live alone and depend entirely on motorised transport and so on. Has Vision Ireland had occasion to engage with the HSE to ask it to change its strategy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

Seán Crowe: The worrying thing about the long waiting lists, particularly in the case of something urgent, is we know that the longer one leaves the condition, the more likely that it cannot be reversed. Mr. Mullaniff spoke about macular degeneration and how if a person gets the injections, it stops there. It does not go back and that is the big worry. As a committee we accept the idea that a strategy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

Mr. Chris White: I thank Senator Conway for his long-standing support for this important issue. As we said in our statements, this is a whole-of-government issue. This is not something that is just health. This is something that touches on education, sport, employment and transport and the strategy needs to engage in all those areas. For specifics, I will pass over to Mr. Mullaniff.