Joanne Collins (Sinn Fein)

Please do not take this as a cynical statement. Seeing speed vans at the side of the road alerts people to look down at their speedometers to check whether they are speeding. It raises awareness, but I tend to find that they are not necessarily in blackspots. They are strategically put just around a bend where, if people are speeding, they will be fined, or where a speed limit on a main road has been temporarily decreased, such as for roadworks. It seems like more of a money maker than a road safety measure. People get cynical and annoyed about these things. We are all here for road safety. It seems that they are sometimes strategically put in places where it is more about money than road safety.