Oral question AQO 916/22-27

Oral question by Mrs Linda Dillon on 26 September 2024.

MLA: Mrs Linda Dillon
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 26 September 2024
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 916/22-27
Department: Department for Communities
Business: To the Minister for Communities
Assembly identifier: Document 411767

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Text

To ask the Minister for Communities whether he has plans to update the criteria for awarding intimidation points, through the Housing Executive, to victims of domestic abuse and violence.

29 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:

7 October 2024 – I appreciate that, Minister. Will you give us a timeline for that, if you have one, and some assurance that vulnerable…

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: 0.05 (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 (0.94).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.97).
Subject area: Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues.
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	0.04	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.02	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.02	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.02	No
Controversy escalation	0.03	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.94	Yes
Overall judgement	0.05	At or below not-qualifying threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.97
Reports or questions it	0.00
Criticises or condemns it	0.03
Adopts it	0.00

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.59
Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups	0.33
Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism	0.04
No identity-related subject	0.03
Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations	0.01

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:13 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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