Question from Deputy Carol Nolan - PQ 54915-26

To ask the Minister for Health if she has been informed that an organisation (Vision Ireland) is working with 61 people in Offaly who are blind or vision impaired and who hold medical cards, most of whom require low vision aids; the steps she will take to ensure that these individuals are no longer forced to rely on charitable fundraising, personal payments running into hundreds of euro, or going without essential devices due to the capped HSE budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter.