Topical question AQT 217/22-27

Topical question by Ms Emma Sheerin on 23 April 2024.

MLA: Ms Emma Sheerin
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 23 April 2024
Type: Topical question
Assembly reference: AQT 217/22-27
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4485480

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Text

Ms Sheerin asked the Minister for Communities for an update on the sexual orientation strategy.

15 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:

23 April 2024 – I thank the Minister for that answer. In the absence of a bill of rights for the North, we are obviously in a rights…

Assessment

Not flagged

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: 0.11 (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 (0.72).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.89).
Subject area: Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues.
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

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	0.07	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.01	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.05	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.01	No
Controversy escalation	0.05	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.72	Yes
Overall judgement	0.11	At or below not-flagging threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.89
Reports or questions it	0.01
Criticises or condemns it	0.01
Adopts it	0.09

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.99
Another identity-related subject	0.01
No identity-related subject	0.00
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00
Parades, bonfires and commemorations	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 10:03 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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