Motion or amendment: Enhancing Accountability and Trust in Government (Revised Wording) - Amendment 2
Motion or amendment by Mr Timothy Gaston on .
- MLA
- Mr Timothy Gaston
- Party at the time
- Traditional Unionist Voice
- Date
- 30 January 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Enhancing Accountability and Trust in Government (Revised Wording)”
- Heading
- Enhancing Accountability and Trust in Government (Revised Wording) - Amendment 2
- Assembly identifier
- Document 425920
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Text
Enhancing Accountability and Trust in Government (Revised Wording) - Amendment 2
Leave out all after ‘collapse,’ and insert:
‘and the failure of the Executive to deliver on its promised legislative programme or improve public services; and notes that the Assembly’s ability to deliver is greatly limited by the surrender of sovereignty over 300 areas of law to a foreign power due to the Protocol.’
64 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: 0.37 (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).
- No identity-based framing was identified (0.91).
- Subject area: Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty.
- The overall probability was low and the text did not adopt any identity-based framing.
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 | 0.16 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.10 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.03 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.20 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.21 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.44 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.37 | Between thresholds |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.91 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.00 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.09 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty | 0.95 |
| No identity-related subject | 0.05 |
| 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.
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