Debate contribution: Food Strategy Framework: Update
Debate contribution by Mr Andrew Muir on .
- MLA
- Mr Andrew Muir
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 25 November 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Food Strategy Framework: Update
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4675047
Read the official Assembly record
Text
I was delighted to be in Carrickfergus recently and at the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) Loughry campus in Cookstown to launch the food strategy framework. It is a positive move forward, with a whole-of-government approach and, to be honest, a whole-of-society approach to food. It sets in place four key priorities and a number of key principles, going forward. Priority one is enabling improved dietary-related health outcomes through education and increased accessibility to healthy, nutritious food; priority two is about building an environmentally sustainable and resilient agri-food supply chain; priority three is about delivering a prosperous food economy; and priority four is about building a food culture and a food-conscious society. Coming out of those priorities are a number of key decision-making principles. The top principle is about the right to food and ensuring that everyone has the right to adequate, available, accessible, safe and nutritious food. Now that we have it agreed by the Executive, and I have been able to launch it, I am determined that we will work together so that we can launch an action plan early next year and drive forward its delivery, because it is key that we view food in a much better way.
205 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: 0.02 (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
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.02 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.01 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.01 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.01 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.02 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.37 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.02 | At or below not-flagging threshold |
| 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 | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 1.00 |
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 0.00 |
| Parades, bonfires and commemorations | 0.00 |
| Irish language, Ulster-Scots and language policy | 0.00 |
| Sport (including the GAA), the arts and cultural bodies | 0.00 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 11:40 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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