Topical question AQT 199/22-27

Topical question by Mr Tom Buchanan on 22 April 2024.

MLA: Mr Tom Buchanan
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 22 April 2024
Type: Topical question
Assembly reference: AQT 199/22-27
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4484418

Text

Mr T Buchanan asked the Minister of Justice to outline her plans to address the ongoing backlog of cases within the justice system.

23 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Follow-ups by the same MLA in the Chamber

These were assessed together with this record:

22 April 2024 – I thank the Minister for her response. Will she agree that the delays in the justice system are a failing of our…

Assessment

Not qualifying

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: 0.15 (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 (0.92).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.89).
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

Probability that each statement is true of this text (0 = no, 1 = yes). A criterion counts as met at 0.60 or above.
Question	Probability	Met?
Identity framing	0.03	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.02	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.01	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.07	No
Controversy escalation	0.03	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.92	Yes
Overall judgement	0.15	At or below not-qualifying threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.89
Reports or questions it	0.00
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.11

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
No identity-related subject	0.90
Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism	0.07
Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups	0.02
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.01
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 10:00 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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