Motion or amendment: Strengthening Northern Ireland’s Defence Industries - Amendment 2
Motion or amendment by Mr Gerry Carroll on .
- MLA
- Mr Gerry Carroll
- Party at the time
- People Before Profit Alliance
- Date
- 15 May 2024
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Strengthening Northern Ireland’s Defence Industries”
- Heading
- Strengthening Northern Ireland’s Defence Industries - Amendment 2
- Assembly identifier
- Document 401765
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Text
Strengthening Northern Ireland’s Defence Industries - Amendment 2
Leave out all after ‘potential of’ and insert:
‘demilitarising and repurposing the aerospace, defence, security, and space sectors in Northern Ireland for the creation of new green jobs as part of a just transition; notes that these growing industries employed 9,000 people across Northern Ireland in 2022 and provided over 500 apprenticeships; further notes that the technological capacities of these industries could help combat climate change with the development of renewable energy initiatives and infrastructure; notes that technology produced in Northern Ireland has fuelled a loss of human life in wars across the globe, however, recognises that such responsibility does not lie with workers in these industries, but with bosses who profit from war; calls on the Minister for the Economy to develop an ambitious programme to showcase opportunities for investment to demilitarise and repurpose local defence industries and shipbuilding; and further calls on the Minister to work with industry, trade unions and Executive colleagues to ensure our workforce has the skills required to adapt the defence and security industries in Northern Ireland for a more peaceful purpose that contributes to the betterment of our society rather than its destruction.’
198 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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: 0.05 (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 (0.90).
- No identity-based framing was identified (0.99).
- 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 | 0.04 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.03 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.02 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.03 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.06 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.90 | Yes |
| Overall judgement | 0.05 | 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 | 0.01 |
| Adopts it | 0.00 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 0.90 |
| Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism | 0.08 |
| Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues | 0.01 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.01 |
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 0.00 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:55 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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