Sue Ramsey should not be confused with Sue Ramsey Johnston Ferguson.
| Sue Ramsey | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MLA |
| Constituency Am: | Belfast West |
| Assembly: | Northern Ireland |
| Term Start: | 13 June 2004 |
| Term End: | 3 November 2014 |
| Predecessor: | Bairbre de Brún |
| Successor: | Alex Maskey |
| Term Start2: | 25 June 1998 |
| Term End2: | 26 November 2003 |
| Predecessor2: | New Creation |
| Successor2: | Michael Ferguson |
| Office3: | Member of Lisburn City Council |
| Constituency3: | Dunmurry Cross |
| Term Start3: | 21 May 1997 |
| Term End3: | 5 May 2005 |
| Predecessor3: | William McAllister |
| Successor3: | Angela Nelson |
| Birth Date: | 6 August 1970 |
| Birth Place: | Springhill, Northern Ireland |
| Party: | Sinn Féin |
| Website: | Sue Ramsey MLA |
Sue Ramsey (born 1970) is an Irish Sinn Féin former politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Belfast West from 1998 to 2003, and then again from 2004 to 2014.
After growing up in Belfast, Ramsey studied catering. She represented the Poleglass and Twinbrook areas on Lisburn Borough Council from 1997 to 2005.[1]
In 1996 she was an unsuccessful candidate in the Northern Ireland Forum election in Lagan Valley,[2] and failed to be elected at the next year's UK general election also in Lagan Valley, where she finished 6th out of eight candidates.[3] Ramsey was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998 as a Sinn Féin member for West Belfast. She lost her seat at the 2003 election, when she finished 87 votes[4] behind Diane Dodds of the DUP in the closest inter-party result of the election[5] but returned to the Assembly in 2004 as a substitute for Bairbre de Brún. She was then re-elected in 2007 and 2011.
Regarding fire service in Northern Ireland, Ramsey said it was crucial that problems within the Northern Fire and Rescue Service 'need to be tackled as soon as possible’ and that it was ‘worrying that the Fire Service has been allowed to get into such a poor state of management'.[6]