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| Road safety campaign could be reduced following budget cuts | Road safety campaign could be reduced following budget cuts |
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| The Department of the Environment's road safety promotion campaign could be significantly curtailed as a result of budget cuts. | The Department of the Environment's road safety promotion campaign could be significantly curtailed as a result of budget cuts. |
| The department could also shed up to 500 jobs and cut emergency assistance for homes affected by flooding. | The department could also shed up to 500 jobs and cut emergency assistance for homes affected by flooding. |
| The proposals have been published in the department's draft budget consultation. | The proposals have been published in the department's draft budget consultation. |
| The department faces a budget cut of £12.9m in 2015-16. | The department faces a budget cut of £12.9m in 2015-16. |
| In the draft budget, published on the department's website, it says that more jobs are likely to be lost in a wide range of voluntary, educational and private sectors bodies which will have their grant funding cut. | |
| Stormont departments have been laying out their plans for how they will deal with reduced budgets next year. | |
| 'Reduce services' | |
| On top of jobs cuts, the Department of Environment says there will be other significant effects. | |
| It says there is no more money for emergency payments for households which are hit by flooding. | |
| Road safety promotion will have to be cut back and the grants that the department provides to councils and a range of other bodies will also be cut. | |
| SDLP MLA Alban Maginness, who is on the environment committee, said the cuts would have a huge impact on a relatively small department of 1500 people. | |
| "All of this emanates from a ferocious budget that has savagely cut other departments," he said. | |
| "The cut will also affect local councils as they will lose part of the support grant that they get, so councils will have to put up rates or reduce services." |