Debate contribution: Green Growth Strategy

Debate contribution by Mr Andrew Muir on 3 June 2025.

MLA: Mr Andrew Muir
Party at the time: Alliance Party
Date: 3 June 2025
Type: Debate contribution (made as a minister)
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Green Growth Strategy
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4986072

Text

Thank you, Nuala. The green growth strategy is an important issue that we talked about earlier when we linked it to climate change. My Department has been leading on the development of a green growth strategy on behalf of the Northern Ireland Executive, and it has collaborated with other Departments, local government, key stakeholders, businesses and the voluntary and community sectors. It is a draft multi-decade strategy for climate, the environment and the economy. The strategy sets out a long-term vision for the future of Northern Ireland, where we transition from a high to a net zero emissions society and enjoy the long-term economic, social, health and environmental benefits that that will bring. In October 2021, the Executive agreed on the text of a draft green growth strategy, which was issued for consultation. The strategy was revised and updated to incorporate feedback from the consultation exercise and the impact of the Climate Change Act 2022. While my predecessor agreed the updated strategy, it was not possible to secure approval in the absence of an Executive. In the interim, the draft strategy has been further updated to reflect accuracy and relevance. It was shared with the Executive in December last year, and I await approval for it.

206 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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: 0.02 (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

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	0.02	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	0.33	No
Overall judgement	0.02	At or below not-flagging 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	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 12:46 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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