Miss Áine Murphy

Title: Miss
Official Last Name: Murphy
Official First Name: Áine
Usual First Name: Áine
Party: Sinn Féin
Constituency: Fermanagh and South Tyrone

Biography

Party History

Party	Role	Period
Sinn Féin	Party Member	05/05/2022 - Present
Sinn Féin	Party Member	05/07/2021 - 27/03/2022

MLA History

Date	Constituency	Designation
05/07/2021	Fermanagh and South Tyrone	Nationalist, Replaced Mr Seán Lynch
13/05/2022	Fermanagh and South Tyrone	Nationalist, Re-elected

Office/Committee History

Period	Position	Office/Committee
30/06/2026 - Present	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee of the Committee for the Executive Office and the Committee for Justice
10/02/2025 - Present	Committee Member	Committee for The Executive Office
06/11/2024 - Present	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee for the Committee for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs and the Committee for Infrastructure
12/02/2024 - Present	Committee Member	Committee for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
17/06/2026 - 17/06/2026	Committee Member	Ad Hoc Committee on the School Uniforms (Trousers) Bill
18/05/2026 - 21/05/2026	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee of the Committee for Communities and the Committee for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
27/02/2025 - 29/05/2025	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee of the Committee for the Economy and Committee for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
12/02/2024 - 10/02/2025	Committee Member	Assembly and Executive Review Committee
27/09/2021 - 27/03/2022	Committee Member	Committee on Standards and Privileges
15/09/2021 - 28/03/2022	Committee Member	Committee for Communities

All Party Group History

Period	Position	All Party Group
21/05/2024 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party group on Sports and Physical Recreation
27/06/2022 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Reducing Harm Related to Gambling
07/06/2022 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Homelessness
20/06/2022 - 21/05/2024	Assembly Party Group Secretary	All-Party group on Sports and Physical Recreation

Contacts

Register of Interests

Assembly Questions

Session:

62 Questions, Page 1 of 7

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AQO 3764/22-27

Miss Áine Murphy
(SF - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister of Education to outline any consideration he has given to price control measures as part of his plans for the Early Learning and Childcare Strategy.

11/06/2026

To be answered on 22/06/2026

AQW 48490/22-27

Miss Áine Murphy
(SF - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the status of the Sustainable Farming Investment Scheme, including when it is expected to open. [Priority Written]

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11/06/2026

Answered on 16/06/2026

AQW 46266/22-27

Miss Áine Murphy
(SF - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the areas within the Fermanagh and Omagh District of the Western Health and Social Care Trust that have the longest Category one response times; and (ii) any targeted measures that are being implemented in those areas. [Priority Written]

14/05/2026

To be answered by 19/05/2026

AQW 46265/22-27

Miss Áine Murphy
(SF - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister of Health to detail the Category one ambulance response times within the Fermanagh and Omagh district of the Western Health and Social Care Trust, in each of the last 12 months.

14/05/2026

To be answered by 01/06/2026

AQW 46264/22-27

Miss Áine Murphy
(SF - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of (i) Specialist Provision in Mainstream Schools (SPiMS); (ii) additional SPiMS created since the start of the 2025-2026 academic year; (iii) additional SPiMS places created since the start of the 2025-2026 academic year; (iv) schools approached to create SPiMS, since the start of the 2025-2026 academic year; and (v) schools who came forward to create SPiMS, since the start of the 2025-2026 academic year, in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.

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14/05/2026

Answered on 03/06/2026

AQW 46263/22-27

Miss Áine Murphy
(SF - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the proportion of Category one calls within the Fermanagh and Omagh district of the Western Health and Social Care Trust that were responded to within the target time; and (ii) the median and 90th percentile response times, for the latest available reporting period.

14/05/2026

To be answered by 01/06/2026

AQW 46262/22-27

Miss Áine Murphy
(SF - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of emergency ambulance crews routinely available within the Western Health and Social Care Trust; and (ii) any steps taken to increase that capacity, in the last 12 months.

14/05/2026

To be answered by 01/06/2026

AQW 45719/22-27

Miss Áine Murphy
(SF - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister of Health whether any proposal relating to the commissioning of a new emergency general surgical service at the South West Acute Hospital would be treated as a Novel, Contentious or Repercussive case, requiring formal Strategic Planning and Performance Group involvement throughout the business case process. [Priority Written]

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07/05/2026

Answered on 19/05/2026

AQW 45122/22-27

Miss Áine Murphy
(SF - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister of Health to detail any steps his Department is taking to (i) reduce waiting times for patients assessed as urgent for a first consultant-led orthopaedic outpatient appointment; and (i) ensure that urgent cases, particularly those involving children and young people with progressive conditions, are actively reviewed and expedited where a patient’s condition deteriorates while on the waiting list. [Priority Written]

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29/04/2026

Answered on 21/05/2026

AQW 45121/22-27

Miss Áine Murphy
(SF - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) whether any additional funding will be made available to the Affordable Warmth Scheme, in the current financial year; and (ii) how rising demand for boiler upgrades is being addressed.

29/04/2026

To be answered by 15/05/2026

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