AQO 2680/09 Mr David Simpson Democratic Unionist Party Upper Bann
Tabled Date: 28/04/2009 Answered On Date: 11/05/2009 Priority Written: No
Question: To ask the Minister for Regional Development what estimate his Department has made of the number of symbols displayed or memorials erected, on Departmental land or property, which glorify criminal behaviour.
Answer:
My Department’s Roads Service does not have any specific criteria for classifying different types of roadside symbols or memorials. However, when last counted in November 2007, there were 106 unauthorised monuments on public roads, of which 72 related to road traffic fatalities, 31 related to the troubles and 3 had been erected to mark deaths due to other causes.
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