Oral question AQO 1770/22-27

Oral question by Mr Doug Beattie MC on 13 March 2025.

MLA: Mr Doug Beattie MC
Party at the time: Ulster Unionist Party
Date: 13 March 2025
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 1770/22-27
Department: Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
Business: To the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
Assembly identifier: Document 432638

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Text

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to outline how many halal meat slaughterhouses are located in Northern Ireland.

22 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:

25 March 2025 – I thank the Minister for his answer. This is a consumer and ethical question, because many consumers would not be happy…

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: 0.62 (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 (0.74).
Subject area: Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice).
None of the culture-war criteria came close to being met, and the subject matter alone is not enough for it to be flagged.

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	0.08	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.04	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.07	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.15	No
Controversy escalation	0.19	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.54	No
Overall judgement	0.62	Between thresholds

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.74
Reports or questions it	0.08
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.18

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice)	0.94
No identity-related subject	0.06
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00
Parades, bonfires and commemorations	0.00
Irish language, Ulster-Scots and language policy	0.00

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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