Oral question AQO 557/22-27

Oral question by Mr Paul Frew on 30 May 2024.

MLA: Mr Paul Frew
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 30 May 2024
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 557/22-27
Department: Department of Health
Business: To the Minister of Health
Assembly identifier: Document 408381

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Text

To ask the Minister of Health to outline the total cost of the Covid Certification Scheme in Northern Ireland.

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

Follow-ups by the same MLA in the Chamber

These were assessed together with this record:

10 June 2024 – I thank the Minister for his answer. Given the fact that the vaccine certification scheme was used to discriminate…

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: 0.32 (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).
Assessed as legitimate policy scrutiny (0.93).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.87).
The overall probability was low and the text did not adopt any identity-based framing.

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	0.02	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.02	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.02	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.04	No
Controversy escalation	0.11	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.93	Yes
Overall judgement	0.32	Between thresholds

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.87
Reports or questions it	0.02
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.11

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
No identity-related subject	0.98
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.02
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00
Parades, bonfires and commemorations	0.00
Irish language, Ulster-Scots and language policy	0.00

Assessed 20 October 2026 at 22:11 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r1, methodology 1.0.

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