Topical question AQT 1197/22-27

Topical question by Mr Colm Gildernew on 31 March 2025.

MLA: Mr Colm Gildernew
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 31 March 2025
Type: Topical question
Assembly reference: AQT 1197/22-27
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4872037

Text

Mr Gildernew asked the Minister for Communities, given that many experts who are involved in the co-design process for the social inclusion strategies are extremely frustrated with his approach to co-design, whether he accepts that his lack of engagement has damaged relationships with many groups in the community and voluntary sector?

51 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:

31 March 2025 – Members of the anti-poverty co-design group have publicly stated that, in their view, their time has been wasted and…

Assessment

Not qualifying

Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not qualifying”.

Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.07 (qualifying needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not qualifying).
None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
Assessed as legitimate policy scrutiny (0.66).
No identity-based framing was identified (1.00).
The overall probability was at or below the not-qualifying 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	0.05	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.02	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.02	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.04	No
Controversy escalation	0.07	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.66	Yes
Overall judgement	0.07	At or below not-qualifying threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
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 area (top five)
Subject	Probability
No identity-related subject	0.85
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.07
Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations	0.07
Another identity-related subject	0.01
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 12:15 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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