Motion or amendment: Support for First-Time Buyers - Amendment 3
Motion or amendment by Mr Gerry Carroll on .
- MLA
- Mr Gerry Carroll
- Party at the time
- People Before Profit Alliance
- Date
- 30 January 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Support for First-Time Buyers”
- Heading
- Support for First-Time Buyers - Amendment 3
- Assembly identifier
- Document 425923
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Text
Support for First-Time Buyers - Amendment 3
Leave out all after 'prices' and insert:
‘mortgage rates and rental costs creating significant barriers for prospective homeowners; acknowledges the limited provisions within the Housing Supply Strategy to address the specific needs of first-time buyers; calls on the Minister for Communities to introduce a comprehensive suite of interventions aimed at supporting first-time buyers, including the roll out of an equity-based Help to Buy scheme to provide meaningful support and improve access to home ownership; and further calls on the Minister to introduce measures to assist those who cannot, or do not wish to, buy a home, including implementing rent controls in the private rented sector and increasing social house building targets.’
118 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: 0.03 (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 (0.97).
- 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 | 0.01 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.01 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.02 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.02 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.97 | 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 | 0.98 |
| Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues | 0.01 |
| Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups | 0.01 |
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 0.00 |
| Parades, bonfires and commemorations | 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.
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