Oral question AQO 917/22-27

Oral question by Mr David Brooks on 26 September 2024.

MLA: Mr David Brooks
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 26 September 2024
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 917/22-27
Department: Department for Communities
Business: To the Minister for Communities
Assembly identifier: Document 411768

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Text

To ask the Minister for Communities, further to the completion in North Belfast of the first housing executive scheme in 25 years, whether the Minister intends to enable the Housing Executive to deliver new homes in other areas impacted by the Tower Block Strategy.

44 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 thank the Minister for his answer. The Minister will understand that the primary anxiety of people in those areas is…

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: 0.07 (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 (0.93).
No identity-based framing was identified (1.00).
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	0.03	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.02	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.01	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.02	No
Controversy escalation	0.03	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.93	Yes
Overall judgement	0.07	At or below not-flagging 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	0.95
Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism	0.02
Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations	0.02
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.01
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00

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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