Mrs Cathy Mason

Title: Mrs
Official Last Name: Mason
Official First Name: Catherine
Usual First Name: Cathy
Party: Sinn Féin
Constituency: South Down

Biography

Party History

Party	Role	Period
Sinn Féin	Party Member	05/05/2022 - Present

MLA History

Date	Constituency	Designation
13/05/2022	South Down	Nationalist, First Elected

Office/Committee History

Period	Position	Office/Committee
24/11/2025 - Present	Committee Deputy Chair	Committee for Communities
08/05/2025 - Present	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee of the Committee for the Economy and the Committee for Education
18/02/2025 - Present	Committee Deputy Chair	Ad Hoc Committee on the Assembly Members (Remuneration Board) Bill
03/02/2025 - Present	Committee Chair	Committee on Standards and Privileges
03/02/2025 - Present	Committee Member	Chairpersons' Liaison Group
24/05/2024 - Present	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee of the Committee for the Economy and Committee for Education
12/02/2024 - Present	Committee Member	Committee for Education
17/02/2025 - 25/02/2025	Committee Member	Ad Hoc Committee on the Assembly Members (Remuneration Board) Bill
12/02/2024 - 03/02/2025	Committee Member	Committee on Standards and Privileges

All Party Group History

Period	Position	All Party Group
18/03/2026 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Children and Young People
02/06/2025 - Present	Assembly Party Group Secretary	All-Party Group on Online Safety for Children and Young People
10/03/2025 - Present	Assembly Party Group Chairperson	All-Party Group on Early Education and Childcare
25/06/2024 - Present	Assembly Party Group Treasurer	All-Party Group on Parental Participation in Education
15/11/2023 - Present	Assembly Party Group Secretary	All-Party Group on Skills
28/06/2022 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on MS and Neurology
27/06/2022 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Reducing Harm Related to Gambling
11/06/2024 - 17/06/2025	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Suicide Prevention
24/05/2023 - 10/03/2025	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Early Education and Childcare
01/07/2022 - 11/09/2024	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Fairtrade

Contacts

Register of Interests

Assembly Questions

Session:

193 Questions, Page 1 of 20

Note: [R] indicates a registered declaration of interest

AQO 3530/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for an update on her work to build resilience into the road network.

30/04/2026

To be answered on 11/05/2026

AQW 45190/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail the amount of funding her Department invested in the Slieve Croob district electoral area in (i) 2022-23; (ii) 2023-24; (iii) 2024-25; (iv) 2025-26; and (v) total since 2022.

30/04/2026

To be answered by 18/05/2026

AQW 45189/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail the amount of funding her Department invested in the Downpatrick district electoral area in (i) 2022-23; (ii) 2023-24; (iii) 2024-25; (iv) 2025-26; and (v) total since 2022.

30/04/2026

To be answered by 18/05/2026

AQW 45188/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the amount of funding his Department invested in the Slieve Croob district electoral area in (i) 2022-23; (ii) 2023-24; (iii) 2024-25; (iv) 2025-26; and (v) total since 2022.

30/04/2026

To be answered by 18/05/2026

AQW 45187/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the amount of funding his Department invested in the Mournes district electoral area in (i) 2022-23; (ii) 2023-24; (iii) 2024-25; (iv) 2025-26; and (v) total since 2022.

30/04/2026

To be answered by 18/05/2026

AQW 45186/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the amount of funding her Department invested in the South Down constituency in (i) 2022-23; (ii) 2023-24; (iii) 2024-25; (iv) 2025-26; and (v) total since 2022.

30/04/2026

To be answered by 18/05/2026

AQW 45076/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the amount of funding his Department invested in the Downpatrick district electoral area in (i) 2022-23; (ii) 2023-24; (iii) 2024-25; (iv) 2025-26; and (v) total since 2022.

29/04/2026

To be answered by 15/05/2026

AQW 45075/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the amount of funding her Department invested in the Slieve Croob district electoral area in (i) 2022-23; (ii) 2023-24; (iii) 2024-25; (iv) 2025-26; and (v) total since 2022.

29/04/2026

To be answered by 15/05/2026

AQW 45074/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the amount of funding her Department invested in the Mournes district electoral area in (i) 2022-23; (ii) 2023-24; (iii) 2024-25; (iv) 2025-26; and (v) total since 2022.

29/04/2026

To be answered by 15/05/2026

AQW 45073/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the amount of funding her Department invested in the South Down constituency in (i) 2022-23; (ii) 2023-24; (iii) 2024-25; (iv) 2025-26; and (v) total since 2022.

29/04/2026

To be answered by 15/05/2026

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