Oral question AQO 1890/22-27

Oral question by Mr Justin McNulty on 3 April 2025.

MLA: Mr Justin McNulty
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 3 April 2025
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 1890/22-27
Department: The Executive Office
Business: To the First Minister and deputy First Minister
Assembly identifier: Document 435621

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Text

To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to outline whether they have any plans to convene a Citizen’s Assembly to consider any impacts arising from constitutional change.

29 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Follow-ups by the same MLA in the Chamber

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28 April 2025 – First Minister, you have been highly vocal in public about the goal of achieving Irish unity, yet, with your hands on…

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: 0.53 (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 (0.62).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.90).
Subject area: Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty.
The overall probability was moderate at most and none of the culture-war criteria was close to being met.

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	0.13	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.02	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.03	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.06	No
Controversy escalation	0.18	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.62	Yes
Overall judgement	0.53	Between thresholds

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.90
Reports or questions it	0.03
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.07

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty	0.95
No identity-related subject	0.05
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 08:28 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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