Emma Rogan

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rdf:langString Emma Rogan

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rdf:langString Emma Rogan MLA (born 27 June 1986) is a Sinn Féin politician from Loughinisland, County Down, in Northern Ireland. She attended St Colmcille's High School, Crossgar. She served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the South Down constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly from June 2017 to 2022. Rogan was co-opted to the Assembly to replace Chris Hazzard, a Sinn Féin MLA and former Minister for Infrastructure. Hazzard was elected at the June 2017 Westminster election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Down. Sinn Féin's South Down cumann then selected Rogan to fill his place. On her selection as MLA, Rogan described herself "a Loughinisland woman through and through", but that she would be "an MLA for all of South Down". She said that her initial priorities included protecting services in the Downe Hospital in Downpatrick, and "to restore Downpatrick as a thriving county town". In May 2021, Sinn Féin announced its two candidates for South Down at the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election. Rogan was not one of the two, having been deselected in favour of Councillor Cathy Mason. In March 2022, the Belfast Telegraph reported that Rogan had not spoken in the Assembly for over a year. In the same period she had attended no meeting of two committees on which she sat, missing 45 meetings of the Justice Committee and 13 meetings of the Audit Committee. Rogan did not respond to queries from the Belfast Telegraph.