Motion or amendment: Improving Procurement Practices for Schools - Amendment 2
Motion or amendment by Mr Gerry Carroll on .
- MLA
- Mr Gerry Carroll
- Party at the time
- People Before Profit Alliance
- Date
- 20 February 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Improving Procurement Practices for Schools”
- Heading
- Improving Procurement Practices for Schools - Amendment 2
- Assembly identifier
- Document 429416
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Text
Improving Procurement Practices for Schools - Amendment 2
After 'transparent guidelines,' insert:
‘compliance with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, delivering on measures to achieve net zero targets,’
28 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Assessment
Not flagged on a second assessment, because Jev’s answers did not settle it. The reasons are given below.
- Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.50 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
- Criteria met: Controversy escalation (0.69).
- No identity-based framing was identified (0.76).
- Subject area: Another identity-related subject.
- The answers did not meet either automatic 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.
Second assessment
Jev’s answers did not settle this record, so a second model, claude-opus-5-5, read the same text (without the MLA’s name or party) and gave its reasons on 21 October 2026. How the second assessment works
- Verdict
- Not flagged
- Public interest or divisiveness
- Mixed
Against the published rubric
The amendment would add "compliance with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement" alongside net zero measures to guidance on school procurement. That takes a side on a foreign conflict through a concrete procurement policy. It does not mention any community, faith or people in Northern Ireland, use loaded language about a group, or tie the conflict to local communal identities. The rubric treats taking a side on a foreign conflict without mapping it onto communities here, or portraying a people or faith as a group in a hostile way, as not culture-war activity.
Public interest or divisiveness
The text proposes a specific, if contested, ethical-procurement condition with practical effects on how schools buy goods, alongside an environmental aim. It does not register a grievance or attack any group here. However, it imports a recognised and polarising international flashpoint into an otherwise technical schools motion, and the proposal is likely to provoke division along familiar lines. Both the policy substance and the divisive potential are significant.
Jev’s structured answers
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.14 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.06 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.09 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.18 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.69 | Yes |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.54 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.50 | Between thresholds |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.76 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.00 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.24 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 0.62 |
| Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice) | 0.18 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.11 |
| Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers | 0.05 |
| Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty | 0.01 |
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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