Topical question AQT 1386/22-27

Topical question by Mr Danny Donnelly on 9 June 2025.

MLA: Mr Danny Donnelly
Party at the time: Alliance Party
Date: 9 June 2025
Type: Topical question
Assembly reference: AQT 1386/22-27
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4997345

Text

Mr Donnelly asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister what evidence they have seen, if any, that provision of public services in schools, hospitals and housing is impacted by illegal immigration.

32 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:

9 June 2025 – That does not sound much to me like evidence. How do illegal immigrants get places in schools and on health waiting…

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: 0.40 (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 (0.77).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.63).
Subject area: Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers.
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	0.09	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.14	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.02	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.36	No
Controversy escalation	0.08	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.77	Yes
Overall judgement	0.40	Between thresholds

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.63
Reports or questions it	0.04
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.33

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers	1.00
No identity-related subject	0.00
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00
Parades, bonfires and commemorations	0.00
Irish language, Ulster-Scots and language policy	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 12:42 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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