Written question AQW 45309/22-27
Written question by Mr Gerry Carroll on .
- MLA
- Mr Gerry Carroll
- Party at the time
- People Before Profit Alliance
- Date
- 1 May 2026
- Type
- Written question
- Assembly reference
- AQW 45309/22-27
- Department
- Department of Education
- Business
- To the Minister of Education
- Assembly identifier
- Document 482688
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Text
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any assessment that has been made of the claims heard in the Court of Appeal that discrimination against catholic school children was baked into the RAISE programme.
35 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: 0.31 (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 (0.71).
- The text reports, quotes or asks about the framing rather than adopting it (0.76).
- Subject area: Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice).
- 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 | 0.25 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.03 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.30 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.10 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.21 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.71 | Yes |
| Overall judgement | 0.31 | Between thresholds |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing | 0.12 |
| Reports or questions it (chosen) | 0.76 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.12 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice) | 0.74 |
| Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations | 0.16 |
| Education structures, integration and community division | 0.10 |
| No identity-related subject | 0.00 |
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 0.00 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 06:41 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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