Topical question AQT 1085/22-27

Topical question by Mr Eóin Tennyson on 3 March 2025.

MLA: Mr Eóin Tennyson
Party at the time: Alliance Party
Date: 3 March 2025
Type: Topical question
Assembly reference: AQT 1085/22-27
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4825946

Text

Mr Tennyson asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister whether they agree, given their responsibilities for good relations and tackling violence against women and girls, that the Secretary of State's announcement last week of his intention to appoint an interlocutor, effectively, to negotiate with active paramilitary organisations was disgraceful and shameful.

52 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:

3 March 2025 – I thank the First Minister for that answer. First Minister, will you and the deputy First Minister commit to make…

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: 0.27 (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 (0.65).
Subject area: Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism.
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	0.15	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.05	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.04	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.10	No
Controversy escalation	0.18	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.57	No
Overall judgement	0.27	At or below not-flagging threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.65
Reports or questions it	0.01
Criticises or condemns it	0.26
Adopts it	0.08

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism	0.84
No identity-related subject	0.04
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.04
Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations	0.04
Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups	0.04

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 12:03 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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