Oral question AQO 2828/22-27

Oral question by Mr Alan Robinson on 20 November 2025.

MLA: Mr Alan Robinson
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 20 November 2025
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 2828/22-27
Department: Northern Ireland Assembly Commission
Business: To the Assembly Commission
Assembly identifier: Document 460440

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To ask the Assembly Commission whether the Conduct and Behaviour of Visitors in Parliament Buildings policy will be updated in light of an individual being removed from the public gallery on 10 November 2025.

34 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:

2 December 2025 – I thank the Member for his response. The behaviour that we saw in the Chamber on 10 November was unsavoury. Was it…

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: 0.23 (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 (0.74).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.90).
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	0.04	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.02	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.04	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.06	No
Controversy escalation	0.30	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.74	Yes
Overall judgement	0.23	At or below not-qualifying threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.90
Reports or questions it	0.03
Criticises or condemns it	0.04
Adopts it	0.03

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

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:33 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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