Debate contribution: Hate: Executive Approach
Debate contribution by Mrs Linda Dillon on .
- MLA
- Mrs Linda Dillon
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 22 September 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Opposition Business
- Heading
- Hate: Executive Approach
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5124236
Read the official Assembly record
Text
I appreciate the Member taking the intervention; I know that he has taken a number of interventions. As with anything that goes to court, you have to prove that there is an aggravator. You have to offer that proof. You could not just say, "I think that it is because of my sexuality or my race". You absolutely would have to prove that. If we were to go by that, we would just say, "We will not have any crime at all or not bother prosecuting anybody".
87 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: 0.18 (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 (0.74).
- No identity-based framing was identified (0.87).
- Subject area: Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations.
- 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
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.08 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.06 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.03 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.13 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.09 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.74 | Yes |
| Overall judgement | 0.18 | At or below not-flagging threshold |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.87 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.09 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.03 |
| Adopts it | 0.01 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations | 0.76 |
| Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues | 0.16 |
| Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers | 0.04 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.03 |
| Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups | 0.01 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 13:15 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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