Written question AQW 33526/22-27
Written question by Mr Justin McNulty on .
- MLA
- Mr Justin McNulty
- Party at the time
- Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Date
- 14 October 2025
- Type
- Written question
- Assembly reference
- AQW 33526/22-27
- Department
- Department for Infrastructure
- Business
- To the Minister for Infrastructure
- Assembly identifier
- Document 454852
Read the official Assembly record Open Data source
Text
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any financial loss to her Department, as a result of having no licensing agreement in place for the illegally erected Sinn Féin billboard at the Egyptian Arch, Newry.
36 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: 0.49 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
- Criteria met: Controversy escalation (0.62).
- No identity-based framing was identified (0.63).
- 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 | 0.10 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.08 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.12 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.40 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.62 | Yes |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.43 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.49 | Between thresholds |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.63 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.03 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.34 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 0.27 |
| Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations | 0.25 |
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 0.24 |
| Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty | 0.09 |
| Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism | 0.08 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 04:38 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
Disagree with this assessment?
Classifications can be challenged. A person reads every challenge, and any change is recorded publicly above with its reason.