Topical question AQT 1586/22-27

Topical question by Mr Pádraig Delargy on 23 September 2025.

MLA: Mr Pádraig Delargy
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 23 September 2025
Type: Topical question
Assembly reference: AQT 1586/22-27
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5129730

Text

Mr Delargy asked the Minister for Communities, after pointing out that there is real anger and frustration in Derry that Derry City FC has been left out of the football fund, what assurances he can give that clubs such as Derry City and others in the north-west will not be left out again and that they can access investment in the future.

62 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:

23 September 2025 – Can you outline your rationale for why only two tier 3 clubs were selected to go forward in this part of the process?

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: 0.11 (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 (0.86).
No identity-based framing was identified (1.00).
Subject area: Sport (including the GAA), the arts and cultural bodies.
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	0.06	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.02	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.14	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.03	No
Controversy escalation	0.08	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.86	Yes
Overall judgement	0.11	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
Sport (including the GAA), the arts and cultural bodies	0.64
No identity-related subject	0.35
Another identity-related subject	0.01
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00
Parades, bonfires and commemorations	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 13:10 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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