Co-opted first onto Fingal County Council in 2003, she served as a councillor until being elected to the Dáil on her second attempt in a 2014 by-election. A member of the Socialist Party, she is a prominent anti-austerity campaigner and is a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht.

I will help build a movement, like on water charges, that fights for a ‘real’ recovery for people on
issues like housing & to repeal the 8th.

Housing number 1 issue-need to build council & affordable homes, introduce real
rent controls, ban economic evictions, need mortgage writedowns.

Abolish Irish Water and water charges, we need properly funded public services like water & health paid for through progressive taxation.