Oral question AQO 3779/22-27

Oral question by Miss Deirdre Hargey on 11 June 2026.

MLA: Miss Deirdre Hargey
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 11 June 2026
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 3779/22-27
Department: Department of Finance
Business: To the Minister of Finance
Assembly identifier: Document 489817

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Text

To ask the Minister of Finance to outline how the Civil Service supports diversity and inclusion.

16 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:

23 June 2026 – On the back of the recent disgraceful racist attacks in Belfast, what work is your Department doing to support staff…

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: 0.14 (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 (0.80).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.70).
Subject area: Another identity-related subject.
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	0.07	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.01	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.04	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.02	No
Controversy escalation	0.09	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.80	Yes
Overall judgement	0.14	At or below not-qualifying threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.70
Reports or questions it	0.02
Criticises or condemns it	0.27
Adopts it	0.01

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Another identity-related subject	0.31
Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers	0.22
Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups	0.18
No identity-related subject	0.15
Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations	0.08

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:37 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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