Motion or amendment: Display of Flags, Emblems and Banners - Amendment 2
Motion or amendment by Ms Sinéad McLaughlin on .
- MLA
- Ms Sinéad McLaughlin
- Party at the time
- Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Date
- 25 April 2024
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Display of Flags, Emblems and Banners”
- Heading
- Display of Flags, Emblems and Banners - Amendment 2
- Assembly identifier
- Document 399207
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Text
Display of Flags, Emblems and Banners - Amendment 2
Leave out all after ‘deputy First Minister to’ and insert:
‘introduce legislation within this mandate to give effect to the proposed code of practice on the flying of flags and to include a commitment to such legislation in the Programme for Government.’
51 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Also tabled by
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Assessment
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: 0.20 (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 (0.99).
- Subject area: Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials.
- The overall probability was at or below the not-flagging 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
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.09 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.02 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.32 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.03 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.20 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.83 | Yes |
| Overall judgement | 0.20 | At or below not-flagging threshold |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.99 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.00 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.01 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 1.00 |
| No identity-related subject | 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 08:53 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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