Topical question AQT 803/22-27

Topical question by Ms Diane Forsythe on 26 November 2024.

MLA: Ms Diane Forsythe
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 26 November 2024
Type: Topical question
Assembly reference: AQT 803/22-27
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4677594

Text

Ms Forsythe asked the Minister for Communities, who will surely agree that Northern Ireland punches well above its weight in sporting achievement and strives to continue with this going forward, to advise of any ongoing work or communications to maximise Northern Ireland's potential at the upcoming 2026 Commonwealth Games.

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

Follow-ups by the same MLA in the Chamber

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26 November 2024 – I really enjoyed that event in the SSE Arena, and I thank the Minister for hosting it. Following on from that Olympic…

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: 0.31 (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 (0.65).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.84).
Subject area: Sport (including the GAA), the arts and cultural bodies.
The overall probability was low and the text did not adopt any identity-based framing.

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	0.07	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.05	No
Controversy escalation	0.10	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.65	Yes
Overall judgement	0.31	Between thresholds

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.84
Reports or questions it	0.02
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.14

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Sport (including the GAA), the arts and cultural bodies	0.54
No identity-related subject	0.29
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.15
Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations	0.01
Another identity-related subject	0.01

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 11:35 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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