Debate contribution: Invest NI: Review of Investments Report

Debate contribution by Dr Caoimhe Archibald on 20 October 2025.

MLA: Dr Caoimhe Archibald
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 20 October 2025
Type: Debate contribution (made as a minister)
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Invest NI: Review of Investments Report
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5188754

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I thank the Member for his question. The message that is sent by the statement that I made last week is that we will have no part in supporting Israel's genocide in Gaza, and, as I outlined to Mr Middleton, we have a moral duty to ensure that we are not doing that and a moral duty to hold to account the Israeli Government for the actions that they have taken. We have a moral obligation to take actions to prevent genocide. I have made it clear that it is my expectation that public funding will not go towards supporting genocide. That is what I set out in my statement last week. On the wider economy, I work every day to support the betterment of our economy, create jobs and attract investment. We have sectoral action plans that we work on in partnership with businesses to support them to thrive, grow and create jobs. I will continue to do that work.

161 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: 0.12 (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 (0.80).
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	0.11	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.05	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.02	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.06	No
Controversy escalation	0.15	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.50	No
Overall judgement	0.12	At or below not-flagging threshold

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.80
Reports or questions it	0.00
Criticises or condemns it	0.14
Adopts it	0.06

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
No identity-related subject	0.67
Another identity-related subject	0.16
Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice)	0.10
Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers	0.05
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.01

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 13:33 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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