Written question AQW 21116/22-27
Written question by Ms Diane Forsythe on .
- MLA
- Ms Diane Forsythe
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 22 January 2025
- Type
- Written question
- Assembly reference
- AQW 21116/22-27
- Department
- Department for the Economy
- Business
- To the Minister for the Economy
- Assembly identifier
- Document 424751
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Text
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail why, on the Tourism Northern Ireland website under its Marketing Campaign and in its Spring Marketing Campaign toolkit, the Republic of Ireland and its components is listed above, before and more prominently than Northern Ireland throughout.
45 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Assessment
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: 0.42 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
- Criteria met: Cultural grievance politics (0.68); Controversy escalation (0.68).
- No identity-based framing was identified (0.75).
- 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
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.54 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.04 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.68 | Yes |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.27 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.68 | Yes |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.25 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.42 | Between thresholds |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.75 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.06 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.19 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 0.44 |
| Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty | 0.43 |
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 0.08 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.04 |
| Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations | 0.01 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 02:46 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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