Topical question AQT 742/22-27

Topical question by Mr Gerry Carroll on 12 November 2024.

MLA: Mr Gerry Carroll
Party at the time: People Before Profit Alliance
Date: 12 November 2024
Type: Topical question
Assembly reference: AQT 742/22-27
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4658606

Text

Mr Carroll asked the Minister for the Economy, having tried to ask five different Ministers about the use of US military planes at Belfast International Airport and having written to him and given that, to his knowledge, there having been at least 24 landings and departures of US military planes in the past few months from and to that airport, for his assessment of the frequency of those flights and what is on those planes.

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

Follow-ups by the same MLA in the Chamber

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12 November 2024 – I thank the Minister. I appreciate that you may not have the information, but what have you and your officials done to…

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: 0.18 (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 (0.80).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.95).
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	0.03	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.02	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.04	No
Controversy escalation	0.11	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.80	Yes
Overall judgement	0.18	At or below not-flagging threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.95
Reports or questions it	0.05
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.00

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
No identity-related subject	0.96
Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism	0.02
Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty	0.02
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00
Parades, bonfires and commemorations	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 11:32 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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