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
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:

154 Questions, Page 1 of 16

Note: [R] indicates a registered declaration of interest

AQW 38207/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for the Economy for an update on the Ards and North Down Local Economic Partnership.

14/01/2026

To be answered by 29/01/2026

AQW 38206/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 24289/22-27, to detail any actions progressed following the winter planning workshops.

14/01/2026

To be answered by 29/01/2026

AQW 38205/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of missed appointments in the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust, in 2024-25.

14/01/2026

To be answered by 29/01/2026

AQW 38204/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail her Department's spending on external consultants, as part of its Active Travel Programme, in each of the last five years.

14/01/2026

To be answered by 29/01/2026

AQW 38203/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister of Health to detail the average ambulance turnaround time at the Ulster Hospital Emergency Department, in each of the last 12 months.

14/01/2026

To be answered by 29/01/2026

AQW 37883/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for her assessment of the extent to which the Proposed Draft Budget for 2026–29/30 will enable delivery against the targets set out in the Living With Water in Belfast Plan.

09/01/2026

To be answered by 26/01/2026

AQW 37882/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, pursuant to AQW 35542/22-27, to detail the number of staff who worked on the development of the new Road Maintenance Strategy.

09/01/2026

To be answered by 26/01/2026

AQW 37881/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister of Health for an update on the roll-out of multidisciplinary teams in practices in North Down.

09/01/2026

To be answered by 26/01/2026

AQO 2930/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister for their assessment of the findings of the Ending Violence Against Women and Girls: Experiences and attitudes of adults in Northern Ireland in 2024 report.

08/01/2026

To be answered on 19/01/2026

AQW 37687/22-27

Mr Stephen Dunne
(DUP - North Down)

To ask the Minister of Education for an update on his Department's plans for the site of the former Cottown Primary School, Bangor.

07/01/2026

To be answered by 22/01/2026

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