Topical question AQT 1407/22-27
Topical question by Ms Diane Forsythe on .
- MLA
- Ms Diane Forsythe
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 10 June 2025
- Type
- Topical question
- Assembly reference
- AQT 1407/22-27
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5001512
Read the official Assembly record
Text
Ms Forsythe asked the Minister for the Economy, having reviewed the recently published business plan and year-end progress report for the Department for 2024-25 and noted that the Department for the Economy's business plan contains a commitment, number 33, to: "Work with Conradh na Gaeilge, NDPBs and Independent Autonomous Bodies to develop an Irish Language Policy and promote the use of the Irish language across the Department and its Partner Organisations", to explain why there is not a corresponding or side-by-side commitment to Ulster Scots.
85 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: 0.44 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
- Criteria met: Cultural grievance politics (0.91).
- No identity-based framing was identified (0.69).
- Subject area: Irish language, Ulster-Scots and language policy.
- 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
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.51 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.03 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.91 | Yes |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.16 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.42 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.39 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.44 | Between thresholds |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.69 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.13 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.18 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| Irish language, Ulster-Scots and language policy | 1.00 |
| No identity-related subject | 0.00 |
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 0.00 |
| Parades, bonfires and commemorations | 0.00 |
| Sport (including the GAA), the arts and cultural bodies | 0.00 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 12:41 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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