Oral question AQO 200/22-27

Oral question by Mr Doug Beattie MC on 7 March 2024.

MLA: Mr Doug Beattie MC
Party at the time: Ulster Unionist Party
Date: 7 March 2024
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 200/22-27
Department: Northern Ireland Assembly Commission
Business: To the Assembly Commission
Assembly identifier: Document 392904

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Text

To ask the Assembly Commission to outline how many MLA sponsored events were held in Parliament Buildings between March 2022 and March 2024.

23 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:

19 March 2024 – Thank you. I knew that the answer would be very much to the point. Will the Commission look at bids to run events that…

Assessment

Not flagged

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: 0.29 (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 (0.91).
The overall probability was at or below the not-flagging 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	0.07	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.02	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.09	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.04	No
Controversy escalation	0.09	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.56	No
Overall judgement	0.29	At or below not-flagging threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.91
Reports or questions it	0.03
Criticises or condemns it	0.01
Adopts it	0.05

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
No identity-related subject	0.66
Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations	0.22
Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism	0.09
Another identity-related subject	0.02
Education structures, integration and community division	0.01

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.

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