Written question AQW 35573/22-27
Written question by Mr Pat Sheehan on .
- MLA
- Mr Pat Sheehan
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 14 November 2025
- Type
- Written question
- Assembly reference
- AQW 35573/22-27
- Department
- Department of Education
- Business
- To the Minister of Education
- Assembly identifier
- Document 459039
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Text
To ask the Minister of Education whether any of his (i) officials; or (ii) staff, have refused to cooperate with the planning or management of a visit to Israel in 2026.
31 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: 0.40 (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 (0.92).
- 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 | 0.09 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.06 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.08 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.19 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.45 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.38 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.40 | Between thresholds |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.92 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.06 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.02 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 0.53 |
| Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice) | 0.22 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.11 |
| Education structures, integration and community division | 0.07 |
| Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations | 0.04 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 05:08 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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