Motion or amendment: Delivering a New Deal for Private Renters in Northern Ireland - Amendment 3
Motion or amendment by Mr Brian Kingston on .
- MLA
- Mr Brian Kingston
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 20 February 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Delivering a New Deal for Private Renters in Northern Ireland”
- Heading
- Delivering a New Deal for Private Renters in Northern Ireland - Amendment 3
- Assembly identifier
- Document 429073
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Delivering a New Deal for Private Renters in Northern Ireland - Amendment 3
Leave out all after ‘safe;' and insert:
‘welcomes work undertaken by the Minister for Communities to improve, and mandate, electrical and fire safety in private rental properties; endorses plans to introduce much longer notice to quit periods, as well as to transfer landlord registration to local councils; recognises the need to deliver a fair deal for private renters, including a considered system of improvements to the quality, security and safety of private rented homes; and calls on the Minister for Communities to progress measures to boost the supply of affordable rental properties, consider the merits of letting agent regulation, and keep under review fitness standards and enforcement in the private rented sector.’
125 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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Assessment
Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not qualifying”.
- Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.03 (qualifying needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not qualifying).
- None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
- Assessed as legitimate policy scrutiny (0.96).
- No identity-based framing was identified (1.00).
- The overall probability was at or below the not-qualifying 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 | 0.03 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.02 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.01 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.02 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.02 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.96 | Yes |
| Overall judgement | 0.03 | At or below not-qualifying 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 | 0.99 |
| Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues | 0.01 |
| 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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