Cost-saving measures within a Stormont department may have particularly negative impacts on disabled and older people, an equality impact assessment has warned.
The Department for Infrastructure has previously said that streetlights could be turned off in Northern Ireland and roads remain ungritted in winter months due to a budget crisis.
The document said: “Given this funding position, the permanent secretary is considering further actions, including; reducing already limited day-to-day expenditure across the department; ceasing road safety advertising and other road safety schemes for the second year; ceasing the Active School Travel programme; ceasing support for planning advice that is provided through a grant to community places, and reducing maintenance at Crumlin Road Gaol.
The document then sets out a number of proposed cost-saving measures on which final decisions have not been taken.* road maintenance and flood risk management operational activities being reduced to emergency-only services;* no road gritting service provided this winter. “While the department is still considering equality implications through the screening process … early indications are that these proposals may have negative impacts on older and disabled people in particular.”
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