Topical question AQT 1502/22-27
Topical question by Mrs Diane Dodds on .
- MLA
- Mrs Diane Dodds
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 8 September 2025
- Type
- Topical question
- Assembly reference
- AQT 1502/22-27
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5068325
Read the official Assembly record
Text
Mrs Dodds asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister, after stating that, this summer, we have endured the spectacle of the First Minister for all doubling down on her attendance at IRA memorials, her colleague, rather ironically, urging Sinn Féin to embrace the IRA more fully and the Secretary of State running to Dublin and telling us that he has almost reached agreement on legacy with the Dublin Government, whether it is time to seek the views of the innocent victims of terrorism on what an agreement on legacy should look like and for local politicians to condemn IRA terrorism.
101 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:
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: 0.56 (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).
- The text adopts the identity-based framing in its own voice (0.45).
- Subject area: Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism.
- The overall probability was moderate at most and none of the culture-war criteria was close to being met.
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 | 0.37 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.09 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.37 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.48 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.39 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.41 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.56 | Between thresholds |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing | 0.11 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.03 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.41 |
| Adopts it (chosen) | 0.45 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism | 0.95 |
| Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations | 0.03 |
| No identity-related subject | 0.01 |
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 0.01 |
| Parades, bonfires and commemorations | 0.00 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 12:56 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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