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 5349762
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Text
I thank the Member for giving way. Not for the first time in the Chamber, he has demonstrated that he does not do detail. Had he looked at any of the academic research on memorials, he would know that the word "combatants" is used as a collective noun. It was from there that I took that word. The debate has been respectful this afternoon, but, as usual, the Member has tried to use it for political point-scoring. He should be ashamed of himself.
83 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: 0.44 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
- Criteria met: Controversy escalation (0.80).
- No identity-based framing was identified (0.93).
- 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 | 0.11 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.04 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.41 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.11 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.80 | Yes |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.09 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.44 | Between thresholds |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.93 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.00 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.07 |
| Adopts it | 0.00 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 0.79 |
| Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism | 0.12 |
| No identity-related subject | 0.08 |
| Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations | 0.01 |
| Parades, bonfires and commemorations | 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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