Oral question AQO 3852/22-27

Oral question by Miss Órlaithí Flynn on 1 September 2026.

MLA: Miss Órlaithí Flynn
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 1 September 2026
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 3852/22-27
Department: The Executive Office
Business: To the First Minister and deputy First Minister
Assembly identifier: Document 496350

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Text

To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister for an update on Good Relations funding for the 2026/27 financial year.

21 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:

7 September 2026 – I thank the deputy First Minister for her response. Does she agree that applications for public funding should include…

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: 0.42 (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).
Assessed as legitimate policy scrutiny (0.83).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.39).
Subject area: Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations.
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	0.10	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.02	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.13	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.10	No
Controversy escalation	0.23	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.83	Yes
Overall judgement	0.42	Between thresholds

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.39
Reports or questions it	0.02
Criticises or condemns it	0.31
Adopts it	0.28

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations	0.95
No identity-related subject	0.04
Parades, bonfires and commemorations	0.01
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00
Irish language, Ulster-Scots and language policy	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:38 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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