Debate contribution: Belfast City Hall: 19 October 2024
Debate contribution by Mr Trevor Clarke on .
- MLA
- Mr Trevor Clarke
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 1 December 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Question for Urgent Oral Answer
- Heading
- Belfast City Hall: 19 October 2024
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5269282
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Text
While you may have been speaking as the vice president of Sinn Féin when you made the statement, you were still First Minister of the Assembly. In your capacity as First Minister of the Assembly, did you offer to give any information to the police? Did you give an interview to the police, or give them any information that you were in receipt of? Did you avoid all contact?
69 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: 0.34 (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 (0.94).
- 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 | 0.06 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.04 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.02 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.17 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.17 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.35 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.34 | Between thresholds |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.94 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.03 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.03 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 0.62 |
| Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations | 0.13 |
| Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty | 0.09 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.09 |
| Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism | 0.06 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 14:03 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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