Written question AQW 27619/22-27
Written question by Mr Justin McNulty on .
- MLA
- Mr Justin McNulty
- Party at the time
- Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Date
- 22 May 2025
- Type
- Written question
- Assembly reference
- AQW 27619/22-27
- Department
- Department for Infrastructure
- Business
- To the Minister for Infrastructure
- Assembly identifier
- Document 440599
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Text
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure (i) whether her Department has entered into a licencing agreement with Sinn Féin in respect of its political advertising billboard, illegally erected at the Egyptian Arch, Newry; and (ii) what is the status of planning enforcement on this.
44 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: 0.33 (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 (0.80).
- 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 | 0.08 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.04 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.17 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.16 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.42 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.56 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.33 | Between thresholds |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.80 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.08 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.12 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 0.64 |
| Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations | 0.11 |
| Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty | 0.08 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.08 |
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 0.06 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 03:51 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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