Written question AQW 41694/22-27
Written question by Mr Gerry Carroll on .
- MLA
- Mr Gerry Carroll
- Party at the time
- People Before Profit Alliance
- Date
- 3 March 2026
- Type
- Written question
- Assembly reference
- AQW 41694/22-27
- Department
- Department of Justice
- Business
- To the Minister of Justice
- Assembly identifier
- Document 474192
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Text
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail any consideration she has given to changing the law to remove protests not related to the Protestant, unionist and loyalist and Catholic, nationalist and republican identity from the remit of the Parades Commission.
41 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: 0.38 (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 (0.61).
- The text adopts the identity-based framing in its own voice (0.73).
- Subject area: Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations.
- The overall probability was moderate at most and none of the culture-war criteria was close to being met.
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 | 0.38 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.05 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.34 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.20 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.27 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.61 | Yes |
| Overall judgement | 0.38 | Between thresholds |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing | 0.14 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.13 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it (chosen) | 0.73 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations | 0.70 |
| Parades, bonfires and commemorations | 0.28 |
| Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice) | 0.01 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.01 |
| No identity-related subject | 0.00 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 06:11 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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