Motion or amendment: Eradicating Fuel Poverty - Amendment 2
Motion or amendment by Mr Maurice Bradley on .
- MLA
- Mr Maurice Bradley
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 12 April 2024
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Eradicating Fuel Poverty”
- Heading
- Eradicating Fuel Poverty - Amendment 2
- Assembly identifier
- Document 397298
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Text
Eradicating Fuel Poverty - Amendment 2
Leave out all after ‘purpose’ and insert:
‘calls on the Executive to support, and adequately resource, a new energy efficiency scheme for vulnerable low-income households in order to tackle fuel poverty under the next Programme for Government, as well as to deliver on the aims of the Executive’s Energy Strategy; and further calls on the Minister for Communities to continue working at pace with his Executive colleagues and other stakeholders to launch a public consultation on a draft fuel poverty strategy before the end of this year.’
93 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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Assessment
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 (0.97).
- No identity-based framing was identified (1.00).
- The overall probability was at or below the not-qualifying threshold.
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Jev’s structured answers
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.02 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.01 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.01 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.01 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.02 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.97 | Yes |
| Overall judgement | 0.03 | At or below not-qualifying threshold |
| 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 | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 0.85 |
| Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues | 0.08 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.05 |
| Disability (including neurodivergence and mental health), disabled people and disability or sickness benefits | 0.01 |
| Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups | 0.01 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:52 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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