Oral question AQO 1013/22-27

Oral question by Mrs Sinéad Ennis on 10 October 2024.

MLA: Mrs Sinéad Ennis
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 10 October 2024
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 1013/22-27
Department: Department for Infrastructure
Business: To the Minister for Infrastructure
Assembly identifier: Document 413709

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Text

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to outline the details of his pilot scheme for bilingual road signs in the Gaeltacht Quarter, Belfast.

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:

21 October 2024 – I thank the Minister for his response. I welcome the pilot scheme in the Gaeltacht Quarter. Does the Minister agree…

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: 0.21 (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 (0.65).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.94).
Subject area: Irish language, Ulster-Scots and language policy.
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	0.10	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.01	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.19	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.03	No
Controversy escalation	0.18	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.65	Yes
Overall judgement	0.21	At or below not-qualifying threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.94
Reports or questions it	0.01
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.05

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Irish language, Ulster-Scots and language policy	1.00
No identity-related subject	0.00
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00
Parades, bonfires and commemorations	0.00
Sport (including the GAA), the arts and cultural bodies	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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