Ms Aoife Finnegan

Title: Ms
Official Last Name: Finnegan
Official First Name: Aoife
Usual First Name: Aoife
Party: Sinn Féin
Constituency: Newry and Armagh

Biography

Party History

Party	Role	Period
Sinn Féin	Party Member	10/02/2025 - Present

MLA History

Date	Constituency	Designation
10/02/2025	Newry and Armagh	Nationalist, Replaced Mr Conor Murphy

Office/Committee History

Period	Position	Office/Committee
20/01/2026 - Present	Committee Member	Committee for Justice
03/06/2025 - Present	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee for the Committee for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs and the Committee for Infrastructure
17/02/2025 - Present	Committee Member	Committee for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
01/07/2026 - 07/10/2026	Committee Chair	Ad Hoc Committee on the School Uniforms (Trousers) Bill
25/06/2026 - 25/06/2026	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee of the Committee for the Executive Office and the Committee for Justice
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
17/02/2025 - 20/01/2026	Committee Member	Committee on Procedures

All Party Group History

Period	Position	All Party Group
09/06/2026 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Access to Justice
02/06/2026 - Present	Assembly Party Group Chairperson	All-Party Group on Voluntary and Community Sector
25/06/2025 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Disability
26/03/2025 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Food to Go

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Assembly Questions

Session:

8 Questions, Page 1 of 1

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Note: [R] indicates a registered declaration of interest

Ref No	Member	Question	Tabled	Status
AQO 4227/22-27	Ms Aoife Finnegan (SF - Newry and Armagh)	To ask the Minister of Finance for an update on removing parental responsibility in cases of domestic homicide.	22/10/2026	To be answered on 09/11/2026
AQO 4186/22-27	Ms Aoife Finnegan (SF - Newry and Armagh)	To ask the Minister of Education, given the project was not eligible for consideration for funding from the Curriculum-Led Capital Investment Programme, to outline the funding mechanism identified to provide £30,000 to Richhill AFC.	15/10/2026	To be answered on 03/11/2026
AQO 4174/22-27	Ms Aoife Finnegan (SF - Newry and Armagh)	To ask the Minister for the Economy for her response to the Competition and Markets Authority's Heating Oil Market Study.	15/10/2026	To be answered on 02/11/2026
AQO 4047/22-27	Ms Aoife Finnegan (SF - Newry and Armagh)	To ask the Minister for the Economy to outline how her Department is supporting co-operatives and social enterprises. + Display Answer	24/09/2026	Answered on 05/10/2026
AQO 4072/22-27	Ms Aoife Finnegan (SF - Newry and Armagh)	To ask the Minister of Finance for an update on the Baby Loss Certificate Scheme. View Official Report for AQO 4072/22-27	01/10/2026	Answered on 12/10/2026
AQO 3897/22-27	Ms Aoife Finnegan (SF - Newry and Armagh)	To ask the Minister for the Economy for an update on the renewable energy target. + Display Answer	03/09/2026	Answered on 14/09/2026
AQW 51522/22-27	Ms Aoife Finnegan (SF - Newry and Armagh)	To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, pursuant to AQO 3850/22-27, to detail any proposals they have made to Executive colleagues to amend climate change legislation. [Priority Written]	09/09/2026	To be answered by 17/09/2026
AQO 3865/22-27	Ms Aoife Finnegan (SF - Newry and Armagh)	To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for an update on Bluetongue. View Official Report for AQO 3865/22-27	01/09/2026	Answered on 07/09/2026

Plenary Business

Plenary Item Title	Item	Tabled As	Tabled Date	Plenary Date
Expansion of the Early Removal Scheme for Foreign National Offenders - Amendment 1	Motion Amendment	MLA - Newry and Armagh	23/10/2026	03/11/2026

Votes On Division

Vote Subject	Division Date	Member Voted
Reiterating Unconditional Support for the Rule of Law [Mr Jonathan Buckley]	20/10/2026	NO
Exclusion of the Minister for Infrastructure from Office under Section 30 of the Northern Ireland Ac	12/10/2026	NO
Exclusion of the Minister of Finance from Office under Section 30 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 [	12/10/2026	NO
Exclusion of the Minister for the Economy from Office under Section 30 of the Northern Ireland Act 1	12/10/2026	NO
Exclusion of the First Minister from Office under Section 30 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 [Mr Ti	12/10/2026	NO
Amendment 6 - Further Consideration Stage: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill (NIA Bill 27/22-27	12/10/2026	NO
-#1 Failure to Deliver Health and Social Care Transformation - Amendment 2: Motion Amendment 1 [Mr C	06/10/2026	AYE
No Confidence in the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs [Mr Jonathan Buckley]	06/10/2026	NO
-#1 Banning the Use of Aversive Training Tools for Domestic Animals (Revised Wording) - Amendment 1:	05/10/2026	AYE
Second Stage: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill (NIA Bill 45/22-27) [Mr Eóin Tennyson]	28/09/2026	AYE
Long Title - Consideration Stage: Irish-medium Education (Workforce Plan) Bill (NIA Bill 28/22-27) [	28/09/2026	AYE
Clause 1 - Consideration Stage: Irish-medium Education (Workforce Plan) Bill (NIA Bill 28/22-27)	28/09/2026	AYE
Amendment 1 - Consideration Stage: Irish-medium Education (Workforce Plan) Bill (NIA Bill 28/22-27)	28/09/2026	AYE
Second Stage: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill (NIA Bill 44/22-27) [Ms Paula Bradshaw]	22/09/2026	AYE
Closure of Debate - Second Stage: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill (NIA Bill 44/22-27)	22/09/2026	AYE
Amendment 2 - Consideration Stage: Irish-medium Education (Workforce Plan) Bill (NIA Bill 28/22-27)	21/09/2026	AYE
Second Stage: Housing (Amendment) Bill (NIA Bill 43/22-27) [Mr Colm Gildernew]	21/09/2026	AYE
-#1 Agreement on a Budget - Amendment 1: Motion Amendment 1 [Miss Deirdre Hargey]	14/09/2026	AYE

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