Motion or amendment: Allowances to Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Motion or amendment by Mr Colin McGrath on .
- MLA
- Mr Colin McGrath
- Party at the time
- Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Date
- 28 January 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion · Committee Motion
- Heading
- Allowances to Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly
- Assembly identifier
- Document 425552
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Text
Allowances to Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly
That this Assembly notes the resolution of 30 June 2020 that Members’ salaries and pensions should be determined by an independent body and that Members’ allowances should be determined by the Assembly Commission; and resolves that any allowances payable to former Members of the Assembly, under section 48 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, including resettlement and winding-up allowances, should also be determined by the Assembly Commission; that any change to these allowances may have retrospective or prospective effect; and that the Assembly Commission should publish any such determination.
97 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Also tabled by
Each MLA who tabled or co-signed this item has their own record:
- Mr Andy Allen MBE – record
- Mr Trevor Clarke – record
- Mrs Sinéad Ennis – record
- Miss Nuala McAllister – record
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: 0.03 (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 (0.87).
- No identity-based framing was identified (1.00).
- 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 | 0.02 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.02 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.01 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.01 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.02 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.87 | Yes |
| Overall judgement | 0.03 | At or below not-flagging 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 | 0.97 |
| Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty | 0.03 |
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 0.00 |
| Parades, bonfires and commemorations | 0.00 |
| Irish language, Ulster-Scots and language policy | 0.00 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 09:02 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9. The text was identical to an already-assessed record, so the same answers were reused.
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