Mr Stephen Dunne

Title: Mr
Official Last Name: Dunne
Official First Name: Stephen
Usual First Name: Stephen
Party: Democratic Unionist Party
Constituency: North Down

Biography

Party History

Party	Role	Period
Democratic Unionist Party	Party Member	05/05/2022 - Present
Democratic Unionist Party	Party Member	28/06/2021 - 27/03/2022

MLA History

Date	Constituency	Designation
28/06/2021	North Down	Unionist, Replaced Mr Gordon Dunne
13/05/2022	North Down	Unionist, Re-elected

Office/Committee History

Period	Position	Office/Committee
23/09/2025 - Present	Committee Member	Public Accounts Committee
06/11/2024 - Present	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee for the Committee for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs and the Committee for Infrastructure
17/10/2024 - Present	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee of the Committee for Justice and the Committee for Health
12/02/2024 - Present	Committee Member	Committee for Infrastructure
27/03/2026 - 03/04/2026	Committee Member	Windsor Framework Democratic Scrutiny Committee
16/09/2024 - 23/09/2025	Committee Member	Committee for Justice
03/06/2024 - 16/09/2024	Committee Member	Windsor Framework Democratic Scrutiny Committee
26/02/2024 - 08/04/2024	Committee Member	Committee on Standards and Privileges
11/10/2021 - 20/10/2021	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee of the Committee for Education and the Committee for the Economy
20/09/2021 - 28/03/2022	Committee Member	Committee for Communities
05/07/2021 - 27/03/2022	Committee Member	Committee for the Economy
28/06/2021 - 14/09/2021	Committee Member	Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights

All Party Group History

Period	Position	All Party Group
04/10/2024 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Road Safety
25/06/2024 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Football
21/05/2024 - Present	Assembly Party Group Vice-Chairperson	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
24/06/2022 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Animal Welfare
09/05/2023 - 21/05/2024	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party group on Sports and Physical Recreation
22/06/2022 - 06/12/2024	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Rare Disease
18/02/2022 - 27/03/2022	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Rare Disease

Contacts

Register of Interests

Assembly Questions

Session:

287 Questions, Page 1 of 29

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Note: [R] indicates a registered declaration of interest

AQO 3538/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for an update on the York Street Interchange project.

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30/04/2026

Answered on 11/05/2026

AQW 45720/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister of Justice to detail any processes that are available to ensure that all firearm license applications are processed in a timely manner, in the event that staff members are absent for a lengthy period of time.

07/05/2026

To be answered by 22/05/2026

AQW 44998/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any assessment her Department has made of the impact of the current planning system performance on investor confidence in Northern Ireland.

28/04/2026

To be answered by 14/05/2026

AQW 44997/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) any assessment her Department has made of the factors contributing to delays by statutory consultees, including (a) staffing levels; (b) resourcing; and (c) sickness absence; and (ii) any steps being taken to address these issues.

28/04/2026

To be answered by 14/05/2026

AQO 3481/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister of Education for an update on a new build for Crawfordsburn Primary School.

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16/04/2026

Answered on 28/04/2026

AQW 44643/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any steps he is taking to improve consultee response times from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in the planning system.

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23/04/2026

Answered on 05/05/2026

AQW 44547/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for an update on improving rail access to and from the George Best Belfast City Airport.

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22/04/2026

Answered on 06/05/2026

AQW 44546/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail the number of new jobs delivered in North Down, in each of the last five years.

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22/04/2026

Answered on 01/05/2026

AQW 44545/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any steps she is taking to monitor the performance of planning processes across the eleven local councils.

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22/04/2026

Answered on 06/05/2026

AQW 44544/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for an update on the new Hydebank and Mallusk MOT test centres.

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22/04/2026

Answered on 30/04/2026

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