Member's statement: Waterworks and Alexandra Park: Funding
Member's statement by Miss Nuala McAllister on .
- MLA
- Miss Nuala McAllister
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 5 November 2024
- Type
- Member's statement
- Business
- Members' Statements
- Heading
- Waterworks and Alexandra Park: Funding
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4631450
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Text
I mark yesterday's announcement by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) of €13·5 million for the Waterworks and Alexandra Park in my constituency of North Belfast. It is a massive opportunity that is aimed at reimaging communities and bringing them together. In 2024, there is a park in a constituency in Northern Ireland that has a peace wall running down its middle to divide two communities. The funding, which is earmarked for bringing communities together, represents an opportunity not only to truly transform our shared spaces and reconnect the entirety of our constituency but to tackle division at its core. It is a massive opportunity not just for that particular area but for the entirety of North Belfast.
We can reconnect the city from the Belfast hills right down to the city centre through our green spaces. It is an opportunity for us to work together across the divide and all political parties to bring our communities together and lead from the ground up in order to ensure that we have this integration and reimagining of the North Belfast area and green spaces that are truly transformed. The project will be led in partnership by Belfast City Council and the Department of Justice. The latter has been working for many years to address the peace wall in Alexandra park. I am excited for the opportunities that this will bring. I am also excited to work alongside communities in my constituency to truly transform our parks, which have been neglected for many years. This particularly welcome announcement will bring positivity and opportunity to North Belfast, which has sought investment for many years and is now getting what it deserves.
278 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: 0.07 (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 (0.88).
- Subject area: Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations.
- 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 | 0.15 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.02 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.03 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.02 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.07 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.47 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.07 | At or below not-flagging threshold |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.88 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.01 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.11 |
| Adopts it | 0.00 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations | 0.90 |
| Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism | 0.10 |
| 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 11:30 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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