Oral question AQO 134/22-27

Oral question by Mrs Sinéad Ennis on 29 February 2024.

MLA: Mrs Sinéad Ennis
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 29 February 2024
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 134/22-27
Department: Department of Justice
Business: To the Minister of Justice
Assembly identifier: Document 391434

Read the official Assembly record Open Data source

Text

To ask the Minister of Justice to outline how many applications there have been for Stalking Protection Orders since they were introduced.

22 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Follow-ups by the same MLA in the Chamber

These were assessed together with this record:

11 March 2024 – I thank the Minister for her response. Having sat on the Committee in the previous mandate, we know the serious…

Assessment

Not qualifying

Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not qualifying”.

Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.02 (qualifying needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not qualifying).
None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
Assessed as legitimate policy scrutiny (0.91).
No identity-based framing was identified (1.00).
The overall probability was at or below the not-qualifying threshold.

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

Probability that each statement is true of this text (0 = no, 1 = yes). A criterion counts as met at 0.60 or above.
Question	Probability	Met?
Identity framing	0.02	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.01	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.01	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.01	No
Controversy escalation	0.02	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.91	Yes
Overall judgement	0.02	At or below not-qualifying threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	1.00
Reports or questions it	0.00
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.00

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
No identity-related subject	0.76
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.21
Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups	0.03
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00
Parades, bonfires and commemorations	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:11 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 reviews every challenge, and any change is recorded publicly above with its reason.

Challenge this classification