Oral question AQO 1633/22-27

Oral question by Mr Brian Kingston on 20 February 2025.

MLA: Mr Brian Kingston
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 20 February 2025
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 1633/22-27
Department: The Executive Office
Business: To the First Minister and deputy First Minister
Assembly identifier: Document 429206

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Text

To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister for an update on any plans to attend events in Washington DC for St. Patrick's Day.

25 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:

3 March 2025 – The First Minister is aware, given her previous answer, of the series of events that take place in Washington DC in the…

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: 0.42 (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 (0.90).
Subject area: Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials.
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

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	0.14	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.02	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.09	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.07	No
Controversy escalation	0.48	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.25	No
Overall judgement	0.42	Between thresholds

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.90
Reports or questions it	0.01
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.09

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.31
No identity-related subject	0.21
Parades, bonfires and commemorations	0.21
Another identity-related subject	0.09
Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice)	0.07

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:27 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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