Motion or amendment: Bonfire Regulation - Amendment 4
Motion or amendment by Mr Gerry Carroll on .
- MLA
- Mr Gerry Carroll
- Party at the time
- People Before Profit Alliance
- Date
- 11 September 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Bonfire Regulation”
- Heading
- Bonfire Regulation - Amendment 4
- Assembly identifier
- Document 449198
Read the official Assembly record Open Data source
Text
Bonfire Regulation - Amendment 4
Leave out all after “burnt;” and insert:
‘condemns the construction of bonfires built on sites near or containing asbestos; calls for the implementation of the Commission’s recommendations to put in place bonfire regulations that prevents threats to public safety, pollution to the environment and attempts to spread hate; and further calls on the Executive to establish a taskforce group comprised of appropriate health officials and other relevant agencies, to identify any possible negative health impacts resulting from this summer's bonfire on the Donegall Road on working class communities.’
93 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: 0.17 (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 (0.86).
- The text criticises or condemns the framing or division (0.78).
- Subject area: Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations.
- 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 | 0.11 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.05 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.10 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.09 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.16 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.86 | Yes |
| Overall judgement | 0.17 | At or below not-flagging threshold |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing | 0.21 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.00 |
| Criticises or condemns it (chosen) | 0.78 |
| Adopts it | 0.01 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations | 0.58 |
| Parades, bonfires and commemorations | 0.40 |
| No identity-related subject | 0.01 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.01 |
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 0.00 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 09:08 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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