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
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:

121 Questions, Page 1 of 13

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Note: [R] indicates a registered declaration of interest

AQO 3274/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister for Communities to outline the rationale for the decision to remove Irish language from the logo on his Department’s website.

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26/02/2026

Answered on 10/03/2026

AQW 41699/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister of Education to detail when special schools will get confirmation of their summer schemes. [Priority Written]

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03/03/2026

Answered on 11/03/2026

AQW 41698/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister of Education for an update on reinstating onsite nursing provision in special schools.

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03/03/2026

Answered on 10/03/2026

AQW 41068/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister of Health to detail when he will publish the findings from the review of Minimum Standards for Childminding and Day Care for Children Under Age 12. [Priority Written]

20/02/2026

To be answered by 02/03/2026

AQW 40859/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any steps his Department will take to ensure that homelessness organisations and charities receive timely and reliable notice of future activations of the Severe Weather Emergency Protocol.

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18/02/2026

Answered on 04/03/2026

AQW 40858/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any organisations that receive direct notification from his Department when the Severe Weather Emergency Protocol is activated.

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18/02/2026

Answered on 05/03/2026

AQW 40857/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister for Communities to detail which statutory organisation holds responsibility for each aspect of the implementation of the Severe Weather Emergency Protocol.

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18/02/2026

Answered on 02/03/2026

AQW 40856/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister for Communities for his assessment of confusion experienced by homelessness organisations and frontline charities, on 16 February 2026, regarding activation of the Severe Weather Emergency Protocol.

18/02/2026

To be answered by 05/03/2026

AQW 40636/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister of Education for an update on any engagement between his Department and trade unions representing classroom assistants regarding the issue of pay and conditions.

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16/02/2026

Answered on 19/02/2026

AQW 40635/22-27

Mrs Cathy Mason
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister of Education to detail any reason for discrepancies in pay and conditions for classroom assistants who work in a Specialist Provision in Mainstream schools, and those who work in Special Schools.

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16/02/2026

Answered on 23/02/2026

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