Oral question AQO 3981/22-27

Oral question by Ms Sian Mulholland on 17 September 2026.

MLA: Ms Sian Mulholland
Party at the time: Alliance Party
Date: 17 September 2026
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 3981/22-27
Department: Department of Justice
Business: To the Minister of Justice
Assembly identifier: Document 498975

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Text

To ask the Minister of Justice to outline how her Department uses trauma-informed practice.

14 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:

28 September 2026 – Thank you, Minister. Can you give us a little more information about how the Youth Justice Agency uses trauma-informed…

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: 0.03 (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 (0.88).
No identity-based framing was identified (1.00).
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	0.02	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.01	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.02	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.01	No
Controversy escalation	0.02	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.88	Yes
Overall judgement	0.03	At or below not-qualifying threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	1.00
Reports or questions it	0.00
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.00

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
No identity-related subject	0.81
Disability (including neurodivergence and mental health), disabled people and disability or sickness benefits	0.16
Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism	0.01
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.01
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	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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