Motion or amendment: Breach of the Ministerial Code of Conduct - Amendment 1
Motion or amendment by Mr Gerry Carroll on .
- MLA
- Mr Gerry Carroll
- Party at the time
- People Before Profit Alliance
- Date
- 6 February 2026
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Breach of the Ministerial Code of Conduct”
- Heading
- Breach of the Ministerial Code of Conduct - Amendment 1
- Assembly identifier
- Document 469995
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Text
Breach of the Ministerial Code of Conduct - Amendment 1
After 'confidence of this Assembly;' insert:
‘condemns the Minister for his abdication of duty, failure of leadership and stoking the flames of racial tension and violence in Larne, compromising the safety of migrant families seeking refuge in his constituency;’
49 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: 0.30 (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).
- The text criticises or condemns the framing or division (0.93).
- Subject area: Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers.
- 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 | 0.51 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.04 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.09 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.07 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.22 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.31 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.30 | At or below not-flagging threshold |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing | 0.05 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.00 |
| Criticises or condemns it (chosen) | 0.93 |
| Adopts it | 0.01 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers | 1.00 |
| No identity-related subject | 0.00 |
| 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 09:20 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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