Oral question AQO 255/22-27
Oral question by Mrs Diane Dodds on .
- MLA
- Mrs Diane Dodds
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 21 March 2024
- Type
- Oral question
- Assembly reference
- AQO 255/22-27
- Department
- The Executive Office
- Business
- To the First Minister and deputy First Minister
- Assembly identifier
- Document 395191
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Text
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to outline their Department's plans to support isolated minority communities living along the border.
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:
- 15 April 2024 – I thank the Minister for her response. In fact, her response was fairly general. I specifically wanted to know about…
- 15 April 2024 – Does the Minister agree that there are other communities who do not live along the border but who feel just as…
- 15 April 2024 – — such as Mourneview, and, in particular, Brownlow House. How can the Executive Office support those communities?
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: 0.33 (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 (0.77).
- No identity-based framing was identified (0.80).
- Subject area: Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations.
- 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 | 0.15 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.02 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.08 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.05 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.11 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.77 | Yes |
| Overall judgement | 0.33 | Between thresholds |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.80 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.02 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.01 |
| Adopts it | 0.17 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations | 0.42 |
| Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism | 0.39 |
| No identity-related subject | 0.15 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.03 |
| Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues | 0.01 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:12 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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