Debate contribution: Audit and Re-imaging of Memorials
Debate contribution by Ms Paula Bradshaw on .
- MLA
- Ms Paula Bradshaw
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 11 November 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- Audit and Re-imaging of Memorials
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5349695
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Text
I thank the Member for giving way. He knows that I am bringing forward a private Member's Bill. When I have raised the issue of flags in the Chamber, he has said that we cannot have statutory agencies coming in and doing exactly what he has just said about removing flags. He said that communities had to be involved. Why is he now putting this at the Justice Department, as opposed to Communities?
73 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: 0.46 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
- Criteria met: Cultural grievance politics (0.63); Controversy escalation (0.61).
- No identity-based framing was identified (0.52).
- Subject area: Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials.
- The overall probability was low and the text did not adopt any identity-based framing.
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 | 0.26 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.03 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.63 | Yes |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.21 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.61 | Yes |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.43 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.46 | Between thresholds |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.52 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.41 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.07 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 1.00 |
| No identity-related subject | 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 13:38 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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