Topical question AQT 602/22-27

Topical question by Mr Alan Chambers on 7 October 2024.

MLA: Mr Alan Chambers
Party at the time: Ulster Unionist Party
Date: 7 October 2024
Type: Topical question
Assembly reference: AQT 602/22-27
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4579186

Text

Mr Chambers asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister, given that public confidence in this place has been somewhat eroded by the events over recent years, whether the deputy First Minister will give her assessment of the impact on that already damaged public confidence after the events that have occurred over recent days.

54 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:

7 October 2024 – Thank you for that. The last thing that anyone in the Chamber wants to see is another collapse of the institutions.…

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: 0.10 (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

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	0.04	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.02	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.03	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.03	No
Controversy escalation	0.11	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.18	No
Overall judgement	0.10	At or below not-flagging threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
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 area (top five)
Subject	Probability
No identity-related subject	0.87
Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty	0.13
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 11:13 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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