Mrs Sinéad Ennis

Title: Mrs
Official Last Name: Ennis
Official First Name: Sinéad
Usual First Name: Sinéad
Party: Sinn Féin
Constituency: South Down

Biography

Party History

Party	Role	Period
Sinn Féin	Party Member	05/05/2022 - Present
Sinn Féin	Party Member	02/03/2017 - 27/03/2022

MLA History

Date	Constituency	Designation
13/03/2017	South Down	Nationalist, First elected
13/05/2022	South Down	Nationalist, Re-elected

Office/Committee History

Period	Position	Office/Committee
19/05/2026 - Present	Committee Member	Committee for Infrastructure
10/02/2025 - Present	Committee Member	Assembly and Executive Review Committee
12/02/2024 - Present	Committee Member	Northern Ireland Assembly Commission
03/02/2024 - Present	Committee Member	Business Committee
17/10/2024 - 02/12/2024	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee of the Committee for Justice and the Committee for Health
28/05/2024 - 02/12/2024	Committee Member	Committee for Justice
15/05/2024 - 28/05/2024	Committee Deputy Chair	Committee for Justice
15/02/2024 - 15/05/2024	Committee Member	Committee for Justice
06/02/2024 - 03/02/2025	Committee Deputy Chair	Committee on Procedures
18/02/2022 - 25/02/2022	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee of the Committee for Health and the Committee for Justice
02/08/2021 - 28/03/2022	Committee Deputy Chair	Committee for Justice
01/04/2021 - 20/09/2021	Committee Chair	Chairpersons' Liaison Group
31/03/2020 - 31/03/2021	Committee Deputy Chair	Chairpersons' Liaison Group
31/03/2020 - 28/03/2022	Committee Member	Ad Hoc Committee on the COVID-19 Response
20/01/2020 - 27/03/2022	Committee Member	Business Committee
20/01/2020 - 15/09/2021	Committee Member	Committee for Communities
20/01/2020 - 31/03/2020	Committee Member	Chairpersons' Liaison Group
13/01/2020 - 20/09/2021	Committee Chair	Committee on Standards and Privileges

All Party Group History

Period	Position	All Party Group
27/06/2022 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Reducing Harm Related to Gambling
20/06/2022 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party group on Sports and Physical Recreation
08/06/2021 - 27/03/2022	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on MS and Neurology
26/01/2021 - 27/03/2022	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Arts
03/03/2020 - 27/03/2022	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Reducing Harm Related to Gambling
23/04/2018 - 27/03/2022	Assembly Party Group Vice-Chairperson	All-Party group on Sports and Physical Recreation
29/01/2018 - 23/04/2018	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party group on Sports and Physical Recreation
24/01/2018 - 27/03/2022	Assembly Party Group Member	All Party Group on Country Sports

Contacts

Register of Interests

Assembly Questions

Session:

27 Questions, Page 1 of 3

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AQW 47326/22-27

Mrs Sinéad Ennis
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any (i) rights; and (ii) protection, consumers have in relation to gift vouchers and their period of validity. [Priority Written]

28/05/2026

To be answered by 05/06/2026

AQO 3637/22-27

Mrs Sinéad Ennis
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister of Finance for an update on engagement with the British Government to negotiate a new and fairer funding model.

21/05/2026

To be answered on 01/06/2026

AQO 3525/22-27

Mrs Sinéad Ennis
(SF - South Down)

To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister for their assessment of the strategic impact of the Strategic Framework to End Violence against Women and Girls.

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30/04/2026

Answered on 13/05/2026

AQO 3536/22-27

Mrs Sinéad Ennis
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for an update on her work to improve road safety.

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30/04/2026

Answered on 11/05/2026

AQW 44573/22-27

Mrs Sinéad Ennis
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any steps being taken to ensure that the Census Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 is reviewed and amended in a timely manner, so as to enable the same level of public access to census results as currently available in the Republic and the rest of the UK. [Priority Written]

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22/04/2026

Answered on 30/04/2026

AQW 44572/22-27

Mrs Sinéad Ennis
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any Housing Executive Disabled Facilities Grant works deemed necessary to meet occupational therapist recommendations, including (i) the number and value, of applications completed and approved where costs exceed (a) £35,000; and (b) £70,000; (ii) within these categories, the number and value of applications currently not yet approved or completed, including the estimated costs, broken down by constituency, in each of the last five financial years.

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22/04/2026

Answered on 08/05/2026

AQO 3448/22-27

Mrs Sinéad Ennis
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister for the Economy for an update on her work to promote the real Living Wage.

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26/03/2026

Answered on 21/04/2026

AQW 43994/22-27

Mrs Sinéad Ennis
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the number of meeting requests he has received from representative groups or organisations from the LGBTQI+ sector, to discuss the Sexual Orientation Strategy; and (ii) the number of these requests he has accepted.

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15/04/2026

Answered on 30/04/2026

AQW 43993/22-27

Mrs Sinéad Ennis
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the last time he met with representative groups or organisations from the LGBTQI+ sector, to discuss the implementation of the Sexual Orientation Strategy.

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15/04/2026

Answered on 30/04/2026

AQW 43992/22-27

Mrs Sinéad Ennis
(SF - South Down)

To ask the Minister of Health for an update on any discussions he has had with his counterpart in the South on establishing an island-wide paediatric pathology service.

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15/04/2026

Answered on 21/04/2026

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