Debate contribution: North/South Ministerial Council: Benefits
Debate contribution by Dr Caoimhe Archibald on .
- MLA
- Dr Caoimhe Archibald
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 9 April 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- North/South Ministerial Council: Benefits
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4482163
Read the official Assembly record
Text
As the Member will know, PEACE PLUS is worth approximately £1 billion. It will build on the work of the previous Peace programmes and INTERREG programmes, promoting economic and social inclusion and peace and prosperity across the North and the border counties.
It officially opened for funding calls on 15 June 2023. A total of 19 funding calls opened for applications, and 13 subsequently closed. Work on opening calls, assessing projects and taking funding decisions will continue apace throughout the rest of the year.
Since December, the steering committees have taken decisions to award approximately £207 million of PEACE PLUS funding to successful project applications across several investment areas. That will include — the Member will have seen the announcement on this today — the £143·5 million to upgrade the Belfast-Dublin Enterprise service; £40 million for youth programmes; £11·3 million for local community action plans; and £11·3 million for shared education programmes.
152 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: 0.03 (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 (1.00).
- 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 | 0.02 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.01 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.01 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.01 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.02 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.38 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.03 | At or below not-flagging 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 | 0.43 |
| Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism | 0.30 |
| Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations | 0.16 |
| Education structures, integration and community division | 0.10 |
| Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty | 0.01 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 09:57 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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