Oral question AQO 2037/22-27

Oral question by Mr Declan Kearney on 15 May 2025.

MLA: Mr Declan Kearney
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 15 May 2025
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 2037/22-27
Department: The Executive Office
Business: To the First Minister and deputy First Minister
Assembly identifier: Document 439643

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Text

To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister for their assessment of the motion passed in the Assembly on 6 May 2025 which expressed support for extending the right to vote in elections for president of Ireland to all Irish citizens on the island of Ireland.

47 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:

27 May 2025 – Gabhaim buíochas leis an Chéad-Aire as an fhreagra sin. First Minister, I note from your response that there is no…

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: 0.37 (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 (0.61).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.83).
Subject area: Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty.
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	0.13	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.02	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.04	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.03	No
Controversy escalation	0.20	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.61	Yes
Overall judgement	0.37	Between thresholds

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.83
Reports or questions it	0.10
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.07

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty	0.92
No identity-related subject	0.07
Another identity-related subject	0.01
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00
Parades, bonfires and commemorations	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:30 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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