Topical question AQT 2471/22-27

Topical question by Mr Matthew O'Toole on 22 June 2026.

MLA: Mr Matthew O'Toole
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 22 June 2026
Type: Topical question
Assembly reference: AQT 2471/22-27
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5638172

Text

Mr O'Toole asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister, having noted the fact that tomorrow marks a decade since the Brexit referendum, which was a decade of chaos visited upon people here by political machinations in London but made worse by the decisions of Sinn Féin and the DUP to collapse these institutions, and that we are seeing more machinations and the resignation of the sixth Prime Minister in a decade, whether they agree that those decisions by the DUP in 2022 and Sinn Féin in 2017 were wrong because they simply compounded the decade of chaos, which has damaged public services and trust in politics.

107 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Follow-ups by the same MLA in the Chamber

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22 June 2026 – First Minister, you might get a meeting with Keir Starmer now, because I think that his diary is about to become a lot…

Assessment

Not flagged

Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not flagged”.

Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.16 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.93).
Subject area: Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty.
The overall probability was at or below the not-flagging threshold.

This is an AI-generated assessment of the text, made against published criteria. It is not a finding of fact about the MLA or their intentions. The Assembly record itself is the fact.

Jev’s structured answers

Probability that each statement is true of this text (0 = no, 1 = yes). A criterion counts as met at 0.60 or above.
Question	Probability	Met?
Identity framing	0.10	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.06	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.02	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.17	No
Controversy escalation	0.10	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.36	No
Overall judgement	0.16	At or below not-flagging threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.93
Reports or questions it	0.00
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.07

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty	0.75
No identity-related subject	0.23
Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations	0.01
Another identity-related subject	0.01
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 16:05 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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